Our 2025 was full of new members, new wins, and new possibilities for building a Nashville for all of us, by all of us. Read on for our 2025 year in review and to learn how you can help us keep building and winning in 2026 and beyond!
2025 Year in Review
Outreach & Organizing
- Held 3 canvassing trainings
- Knocked 500+ doors & held 100+ front porch conversations
- Made hundreds of calls/texts
- Distributed thousands of flyers
- Held a Community Assembly (East)
- Developed the Housing & Safety for All Plan & won $100,000 in the city budget to bring social housing to Nashville!
Base-Building & Membership
- Welcomed 15 new members
- Added 100+ people to our base
- Held 8 General Interest Meetings
- Members organized multiple relationship-building and art-making events for membership
Political Education & Advocacy
- Offered political education on social housing, non-police community safety, surveillance, and more
- Demands shared at public hearings
- Engaged dozens of elected officials
- Held public book clubs and members-only book studies on abolition & radical municipalism
Power-Building & Capacity-Building
- Co-founded new Nashville Social Housing Coalition, building power toward full implementation of social housing in Nashville
- Contributed to organized, coalitional fight against mass surveillance expansion in Nashville
- Hired one part-time temporary campaign coordinator & six canvassers impacted by housing instability & criminalization
Word of Our Work Spread Far & Wide
- Our efforts were highlighted in multiple Nashville-basedmedia outlets
- Our work was highlighted in Nonprofit Quarterly & a new book on budget justice
How we plan to build & win more in 2026!
- Knock 2,000+ doors
- Welcome 30+ new members
- Hold 2 community assemblies & 2 people’s movement assemblies
- Hold a people’s town hall
- Offer twice as many political education resources & events
- Organize to officially establish social housing infrastructure in Nashville
- Win public funds to establish more non-police community safety resources in Nashville
- Hold more book clubs
- Much more!
How YOU can help us build & win more in 2026!
- Become a member! Help shape and carry our work forward!
- Become a monthly donor! Help us sustain our work with contributions of any size!
- Partner with us through in-kind contributions: art, music, photography, venues, events, etc. Contact us.
- Sign up for our email list and follow us on socials! Stay up to date with our events, calls to action, and more.
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