We turn shared concerns into organized public action.
Together New Orleans organizes through relationships, listening, leadership development, research, and public action. Our method helps congregations, unions, neighborhood associations, and civic institutions move from isolated frustration to shared priorities — and from shared priorities to real change.
Organizing is not just what we believe. It is how we build power.
Together New Orleans takes a grassroots, broad-based approach to organizing. We build relationships across diverse communities, listen for common concerns, train leaders, research practical solutions, and mobilize our member institutions to act together.
This work is slow, disciplined, and deeply relational because lasting public power is built through people who trust one another enough to act together. We accomplish this through our model:
Build Relationships
We start by building relationships across congregations, unions, neighborhoods, and civic institutions. These relationships create trust across the lines that often divide New Orleans.
Listen Deeply
Through conversations, people share personal stories, name the pressures affecting their lives, and identify concerns that are widely felt across the community.
Research Solutions
When an issue rises to the surface, leaders dig deeper. They study the problem, meet with decision-makers, and develop practical demands that can be acted on publicly.
Act Together
TNO mobilizes the strength of its member institutions to take public action by negotiating with decision-makers and winning measurable change.
The work begins with people’s stories.
House meetings are small-group conversations where residents, members, and neighbors speak honestly about the challenges affecting their lives. These gatherings are built around listening, not speeches.
Through house meetings, Together New Orleans identifies the issues that matter most to people across the city — the rising bills, broken systems, public frustrations, and shared hopes that can become the foundation for action.
The Iron Rule
One of our core principles is that Together New Orleans organizers never do for people what they can do for themselves. This means that our professional organizers train leaders on how to run an action campaign themselves.
We’re all about helping faith and community organizations develop the leadership capacity of their members. This has a multiplying effect, greatly expanding the capacity of our network to get things done.