Second-Round Breakout Rooms

My Sister’s Pantry is a food & clothing bank. We are open three times per month providing pre-bagged groceries & items to self-select. The clothing room is filled with gently used clothes.

Indivisible Tacoma is a volunteer organization with a mission to elect progressive leaders and advocate for progressive policies. We defend democracy, support universal healthcare, advocate for human immigration policies, and work to save the earth and all species. We promote social, racial, economic, and environmental justice through a lens of equity for all communities. We have a successful track record of helping elect progressive candidates and achieve progressive policies. We are engaged at the local, county, state, and national levels. We endorse and support candidates based on topics of police accountability, voting accessibility, climate and economic justice and many more.

Grit City Co-op is a community driven initiative to open and operate a grocery store in the Hilltop/Central area of Tacoma so that everyone has access to sustainable food at a fair price, while providing a living wage to workers and growing the local food system. We will facilitate conversations around where our food comes from, who produces it, and how it nourishes us. Our goal is to open as soon as possible, and to highlight and host many wonderful gatherings before then.

The Conversation 253 is a grassroots group of Tacoma and South Sound residents committed to building a diverse, critically engaged, social justice community for the task of procuring for ourselves and our communities a better life. With ‘Justice for All’ as its foundational principle, the group has two primary foci: providing encouragement and support for social justice activists; and promoting justice in such areas as legal system, wages, housing, healthcare, and education. Learn more at the History of The Conversation.

Young Business Men of Washington (YBMW) is a non-profit that engages young men who are challenged by negative influences and socio-economic factors that too frequently cut short options and opportunities for success. Our programs mentor young men, provide role models, build teamwork and cultivate leadership among peer group and throughout the community. We also support development of body and mind for physical and educational achievement in order to guide youth toward becoming positive contributors in their families and communities. YBMW not only promotes achievement among our engaged individuals, we also empower them to pass on the art of success on to their peers.

As military veterans, Tacoma Veterans for Peace advocates for dispute resolution between countries without war or violence, and advocates for veteran issues. We work with others nationally and internationally to (1) increase public awareness of the causes and costs of war, (2) restrain our governments from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations, (3) end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons, (4) seek justice for veterans and victims of war, and (5) abolish war as an instrument of national policy. Also see our national website.