After multiple conversations with key leaders in the organization, the Strategy Team meeting, and based on the overall decision to launch a listening season this spring, we decided to call for a City-Wide Listening Session. There is a deep need to hear from our membership and to act, and we can all sense that our community is at a crossroads. Recent firings of federal workers, the growing crisis in housing costs, and rising anger over politics are just a few of the pressing issues affecting our families, neighbors, and institutions. In times like these, we must come together to listen, share, and act.

We are calling a City-Wide Listening Session for all member organizations of Common Good Missoula AND the general public to:

✅ Hear the real concerns of our community – from job security to affordability and beyond.

✅ Identify shared priorities – so we can act with unity and strength.

✅ Build the power needed to create change – because collective action starts with listening.

Typically, we would hold individual listening sessions within each member organization, but given the capacity constraints many are facing and the larger national challenges we must respond to, we believe that bringing everyone together for one large event is the best approach. This moment requires collective reflection and coordination. The pressures we face include economic instability, political division, and the erosion of public trust. These pressures demand that we organize based on the reality before us. And the timing couldn’t be more significant: we are fortunate to be launching a new organizing campaign cycle right now, allowing us to shape our next steps with clarity and purpose.

Everyone is welcome. Bring your friends and networks. Get them to rsvp ;)