Common Good Tacoma is a multiracial organizing hub that works in anti-racist coalition with neighbors and organizations that support and promote the dignity of impacted populations.

Our aims form the foundation, the soil in which our work is rooted.

In planting here, with these commitments, we will bear good fruit. 

Healing Justice - We resist the culture of violence by embodying and creating spaces for spiritual and restorative practices that promote intergenerational healing rooted in liberation theology and Indigenous wisdom traditions. 

Cultural Belonging - We offer dignified cultural space, and provide/promote programming that extends sacred hospitality especially for those who are outcasted, to feel belonging in their skin, language and culture.

Abolition of Poverty - We commit to the abolition of unjust policies and conditions rooted in wealth hoarding & white supremacy  and will collectively labor to end hunger, homelessness and displacement for the oppressed.

Common Good Tacoma is both a physical space and a coalition of neighbors that is diffused throughout Tacoma. Three primary ways to build with us are:

Outreach Collective — begun by direct serve providers, this collective exists to provide community support and belonging for folks experiencing homelessness and transitioning out of homelessness; to resource providers’ outside of their work, and to reaffirm that our community is strongest when we are relationally connected.

People Power — our organizing table, where we are focused on building people power. Informed by Marshall Ganz and other organizers who’ve come before us, we agree our power comes from people. Because powerlessness is the source of so many of the problems people face, organizing not only enables people to solve those problems, but also, by working together, to become more powerful people.

Soul Tending — a collective of spiritual leaders who know movement work is soul work. These are chaplains, spiritual directors, and guides who tend the heart of Common Good in story, song, and silence.