Common Good Missoula

11/30/2025

🌟 Ready to make a difference in your community? Join us now! REGISTRATION LINK BELOW🌟

📢Common Good is calling you to step up and get involved! This event isn’t just a training; it’s an immersive, hands-on experience designed to give you the skills and confidence to lead, organize, and make change that truly matters. We know what it takes to build community power, and we have the tools to help you make that impact!

💫Here’s what you’ll gain:

✨️Skill-Building in Real Time: Learn how to tell powerful stories, create meaningful relationships, and negotiate effectively.

✨️Guidance from Experts: Work side-by-side with experienced community organizers who will share their expertise and insight.

✨️Action-Oriented Techniques: Learn to analyze power, identify core issues, and design action plans that can move your community forward.

🗣One recent participant said: “I thought I’d be bored and this would be a lecture style. I was engaged and I have a lot of ideas and excitement now.”

🗣Another added, “I have never been in a space where I felt like I could really be myself and my ideas mattered. Thank you for taking me seriously.”

✨️People leave inspired, with a renewed sense of purpose and belonging, ready to create positive change.

✨️By joining, you’re not only gaining valuable skills, but also connecting with others committed to building a vibrant, inclusive community. This is collective action in its truest form—and we want you to be part of it!

✨️Don’t wait! Space is limited, so sign up today to secure your spot and start your journey toward becoming an effective community leader. For more information or questions, please reach out. Let’s build power together!

🗓Dates:

Wednesday December 10th: 9am to 4pm
Thursday, December 11th: 9am to 4pm

Lunch provided both days, along with snacks, coffee, and beverages.

Common Good is calling you to step up and get involved! This event isn’t just a training; it’s an immersive, hands-on experience designed to give you the skills and confidence to lead, organize, and make change that truly matters. We know what it takes to build community power, and we have the t...

11/12/2025

Food Bank Solidarity Aid - UPDATE: we hit $580, so let's raise our goal to $1,000!

Lizzy Pennock, with Missoulians for Common Good, has challenged CGM to raise donations for the Missoula Food Bank to help them in this time of great need as SNAP is not adequately supporting our community members who rely on it.

Our target is $1,000 by Thursday, Nov 20th. Keep spreading the word. Any amount you can do is amazing - so far donations range from $5-50. Please Venmo me donations at .

11/03/2025

Looking for algorithm free social media? Look no further! Join us on HYLO!

09/05/2025

This initiative was developed by the IAF Pacific (of which Common Good is a member) with focus on the impacts and history of relationships between the dominant society and Indigenous Peoples of the four colonized countries of our Affiliate Organizations in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In the long term, it is meant to eliminate systemic barriers in the current dominant structures by creating conditions that protect and expand Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance while creating racial equity for all.

One part of this process is to maximize the existing capacity of Indigenous organizations to tell their own stories and become vehicles for their members to find and exercise their inherent power.

At the same time, we focus on creating durable relational ties between Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations, developed at the speed of trust to form long-term commitments that lead to an equitable future.

Past participants have described this training experience as "life-altering", and "critical for everyone to take."

This collective work was led by a group of Indigenous Peoples worldwide.

Please confirm that you are able to attend all six sessions before registering, as each session builds on the learnings of the previous evening.

This is a training series that seeks to center the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples, the work that is ongoing in our communities, and the emotional work that comes from this.

Please be prepared to engage in this emotional labor and reflection.

Wrestling with the Truth of Colonization is more than the training sessions listed here. It is a community organizing program. The goal is to take the learning and reflection from these sessions and turn them into long-term community organizing efforts towards upholding native sovereignty and real solidarity between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.

Visit commongoodmissoula.org to register!

05/28/2025

✨️Thursday we will be meeting at Missoula First United Methodist Church in Downtown Missoula! Located at 300 E. Main Street, across from the old library building.

✔️Check-in will be at the main entrance on Main- shown in pic 1.

🛗Elevator access is off the alleyway.

🚘Parking is FREE downtown after 5pm!

🍲 will be serving starting at 5pm! You can take your food down to eat in the Fellowship Hall in the lower level, or enjoy the sunshine on the lawn and steps.

🙌Shout out to FUMC Core Team Leader Joe Loos for securing the spacious location for us, as well as always being an all star at turnout!

05/27/2025

✨️We're excited to see you Thursday!

✔️Still need to RSVP? (Our turnout captains Joe Loos and Amber Shaffer would REALLY appreciate it if you did😂) Here is the link:
https://www.commongoodmissoula.org/may_2025_delegates_assembly_celebration_of_3_years_in_action_and_consensus_on_new_action_team_formation

05/25/2025

💫It has been THREE YEARS since our founding! Crazy how time flies when you're having fun building community!

🥳We will meet on Thursday, May 29th, to celebrate our wins the last three years and decide where our focus will be for the next 2-3 years!

✨️This Delegates Assembly is our next step following our City-Wide Listening Session in March (and the subsequent 1:1s since then)! We will decide what action research teams we will commit to, so we can get started on our next organizing cycle!

💙Open to the public! We would love to have you join us! Current member organizations- this is where YOU helped decide and commit to where we focus our work!

🍲Food trucks at 5pm, Program at 6pm

🦽Elevator access on alleyway entrance

Registration link: https://www.commongoodmissoula.org/may_2025_delegates_assembly_celebration_of_3_years_in_action_and_consensus_on_new_action_team_formation

05/25/2025

will be joining us on Thursday! Wok-ee Mountain is a Missoula based, family owned food truck serving Asian cuisine to the community.

Their menu includes:
FRIED NOODLES
CHICKEN TERIYAKI WITH NOODLES
CHICKEN TERIYAKI WITH RICE
CHICKEN PEANUT CURRY WITH RICE
COMBO PLATE
JUMBO EGG ROLL
BUBBLE TEA
THAI ICED TEA
THAI ICED COFFEE

Yum! Thanks for joining us! Doors open at 5pm, program starts at 6pm.

05/24/2025

🍲Doors open at 5:00 for food trucks, and conversation in the Fellowship Hall downstairs.

🕕Our program will start promptly at 6:00.

💫The Program:

💙Our Delegates Assembly will open in a good way with words from State House Representative Shelly Fyant

🥳We will spend time celebrating our organizing successes since founding three years ago, and we have quite a few to reflect on!

✨️We will share what we heard from our spring listening season. As we plan our next few years as an organization, attendees will decide what Action Research Team they have passion (and time) to commit to. From these teams, we will be set to start organizing over the next few months to move into action!

💙The program will conclude with good words from State Senator Jacinda Morigeau

🦽ADA/Elevator access at alley entrance.

WHEN:
May 29, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
WHERE:
First United Methodist Church
300 E. Main Street
Missoula, MT 59802
United States

CONTACT:
Alan Noonan [email protected]

05/17/2025

A successful action with Missoula CDPI yesterday. A broad representation of leadership, skilled personal stories and commitments from Eran and Emily to include robust changes to enhance visitability incentives in phase 1 of unified code reform and to overhaul and include robust incentives for affordability and visitability in phase two.

Congrats all to a job well done!

05/12/2025

Alan's ability to take on a British accent at a moment's notice made some of the readings much more fun at last week's training! 😂

05/01/2025

🔥 is here, and we're on fire! But we need YOUR help to keep the momentum going. Every dollar fuels grassroots leadership. Every donor helps us reach more people. Every gift builds the organizing power we need to fight back against authoritarianism and create a thriving, inclusive democracy.
💥 Give now, give boldly → https://www.missoulagives.org/organizations/common-good-montana

This is about more than just fundraising—it's about making sure that every community leader has access to the tools, training, and support they need to lead—no matter their income.

🌟 We're building a Leadership Training Fund—and you can be part of it. Let's show what people power looks like.

Don't forget to share with your friends! Let's build power together!