Common Good Missoula is committed to creating space for challenging community conversations across typical divides like race, class, and ideology. We are also committed to developing community leaders, sparking and organizing local action for change impacting the regular folks who live in our community. 

Every day people are finding their agency and recognizing the humanity in each other as we reach consensus for positive change in our community. When people who are struggling in a variety of ways discover they have power within their lives to work together to make things better, a special transformation takes place. Folks stand taller, smile more, and work hard to make our community the best place it can be. 

 

Since officially founding we have:

• Continued bringing together diverse voices to truly listen to each other and find consensus for the Common Good
• Held table talks with over 300 community members
• Envisioned, created, and held the city accountable to implementing a pilot for Garden Walk Neighborways
• Worked with the city to pass interim zoning code that creates more housing, and creates opportunities for incentivizing affordable housing growth
• Trained over 250 leaders in Indignous perpectives and equipped settlers to become true allys through Wrestling with the Truth of Colonization
• Trained over 200 new leaders in the Fundamentals of Organizing Leadership 14 -hour Intensive. 
• Hosted an International 6-day, 72-hour Leadership Intensive training 15 local leaders alongside leaders from Washington, Alberta, British Columbia and trainers from New Zealand and Australia. 
• Read and researched every single transportation and growth plan for the city
• Hosted a transformational civic academy in partnership with the City of Missoula to launch Our Missoula Code Reform with over 250 people in attendance
• Held a thirty-minute action with Mayor Hess and senior transportation staff Ben Weiss and Aaron Wilson to get commitments to a garden walk neighborway pilot in June.
• Had multiple meetings with city council members and candidates, mayors and mayoral candidates, and county commissioners as well as city and county  staff  to keep the interests of the civic sector forefront of the conversation and train residents to interact with elected officials
• Held a Mayoral Candidate forum and commitment assembly with more than 80 people present to assure members and residents that their work over the year would continue to be supported by the newly elected mayor. 
• Agreed at a delegate assembly to strengthen our core teams to build the power of everyday residents in our community
• Held core team and table talk trainings and strengthened and created new core teams 
• Presented at City Club Missoula on Our Missoula Growth Policy and Code Reform for the average resident
• Led grassroots research on growth policy updates, affordable housing issues, unhoused neighbor issues, transportation issues, neighborhood planning issues
• Successfully secured grant funding to work on housing, hunger, Indigenous justice, and environmental justice through our grassroots process
• Attended city council and land use meetings
• Launched a 1:1 listening session to connect with and build relationships with at least 500 community members
• Supported member organizations in growing, relating, acting, and developing leaders
• And so much more......