What We Do

All In alliances work locally and across town lines to understand and address the roots causes of poverty:

• Building long-term trust and relational infrastructure. All In lets residents hear each other’s stories, discover their shared interests, and build power together. At All In gatherings, middle-class and wealthy residents share meals with their low-income and homeless neighbors and then strategize together to get what they all want and need.
• Getting a seat at the table where decisions are being made. All In volunteer leaders, including many who are themselves struggling to afford a home and food, now have seats on key town boards and committees, and leadership positions in local agencies, food banks, and pantries.
• Learning skills and making change. All In has developed scores of grassroots leaders, offering them ongoing training and coaching from experienced community organizers and subject matter experts. These local leaders have led efforts to change laws and policies, hold people in power accountable, and get previously ignored issues into the public conversation.

 All In hosts dozens of gatherings per month. These All In gatherings:

• Bring together thousands of residents across race, class, generation, gender, sexuality, party, and town lines. Newcomers are always invited and actively recruited, as All In works toward representing our communities in their full diversity
• Include community story circles, one-to-one relational meetings, local and cross-town strategy sessions, community dinners and dialogues, skills trainings, resident-led forums on issues connected to housing and food and community voice, work sessions with public officials and their neighbors, and appearances at meetings of municipal boards, commissions, committees, and subcommittees
• Are led by a core team of volunteers who work together with experienced professional staff and consultants at TEAM and the Naugatuck Valley Project to set the local and regional agenda, craft the strategy, guide the work, and expand and diversity the alliance’s base of support
• Are supported by  key organizational allies including local businesses, faith organizations, service organizations, neighborhood organizations, racial and ethnic justice groups, mutual aid networks, and government boards and committee.
• Are of, by, and for people who are directly facing the threat of losing their homes and their access to basic resources. For many, this is their first time participating in public life: attending and speaking at government meetings, serving on boards and committees, and proposing new projects and solutions

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