For over two decades, Solstice Collective has been at the forefront of community organizing, building coalitions across neighborhoods, sectors, and identities to advance equity, dignity, and transformative change from the ground up.
From local ballot measures to federal advocacy, our campaigns tackle the systems that shape everyday life. Every campaign is member-led and rooted in the lived experience of the communities most affected.
Pushing for tenant protections, public housing investment, and ending exclusionary zoning across 14 metro regions. We're coalition-building with renters, unhoused neighbors, and labor unions to make housing a human right, not a market commodity.
Centering frontline communities in climate policy—pushing for just transition funds, environmental equity, and corporate accountability across extractive industries. The communities that caused the crisis shouldn't write the solutions.
A nonpartisan voter engagement initiative defending ballot access, expanding early voting, and protecting election workers from intimidation in 38 counties. Democracy works when everyone shows up.
Solstice Collective was founded in 2003 by a coalition of community organizers, faith leaders, and former public defenders who believed that lasting social change doesn't come from the top down—it emerges when ordinary people build extraordinary power together.
Today, we are a 127,000-member organization with chapters in 19 regions, coordinating across issue silos because the problems we face—housing insecurity, climate collapse, criminalization, economic precarity—share the same root causes. Our theory of change is simple: organized people, with clear demands, supported by deep relationships, win concrete victories that transform conditions and shift culture.
We train, resource, and coordinate with frontline organizers who already know what their communities need. We bring research, legal strategy, communications infrastructure, and coalition muscle. They bring the legitimacy, the lived expertise, and the relationships that no amount of money can buy.
Strategic legal support for organizers facing retaliation, plus impact litigation on systemic issues affecting our members.
Door-knocking, deep canvassing, and member-led organizing in neighborhoods across the country.
A 14-week fellowship that has graduated over 4,300 community leaders into long-term organizing careers.
Whether you've got two hours or twenty, there's a way to plug in. Filter by issue area, format, or location to find what's happening this month in your community.
A 90-minute workshop on tenant rights, immigrant protections, and what to do if approached by federal agents.
Register Now →Frontline community members share what's at stake in the upcoming environmental policy hearings. Q&A with organizers.
Register Now →A family-friendly march demanding an end to no-cause evictions and the passage of the Tenant Protection Act.
Register Now →Join hundreds of volunteers knocking doors across the district to talk with neighbors about ballot measures 4 & 7.
Register Now →Our annual gathering of 1,200+ organizers, lawyers, and strategists. Three days of training, planning, and rest.
Register Now →A panel discussion with directly-impacted leaders on the statewide ballot initiative to end cash bail.
Register Now →Movements are made of people. Whether you can give a Saturday or a career, your time and skills are the lifeblood of collective action. Choose a role that fits your life right now.
Call neighbors to talk about local ballot measures and upcoming actions. We provide the script, training, and snacks. Two-hour shifts available evenings and weekends.
Walk a route in your own neighborhood, listening to concerns and inviting people into the conversation. Always in pairs, never alone.
Make the work visible. Help design flyers, social media graphics, signs, and merch for campaigns. Remote-friendly, project-based work.
Facilitate small gatherings where members share their experiences with injustice and imagine solutions together. Full training provided.
Attorneys, paralegals, and law students supporting organizers facing SLAPP suits, defending arrested protesters, and impact litigation.
Help our materials and events reach every neighbor. Especially seeking Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, ASL, and Arabic speakers.
Knowledge is a collective resource. Browse our library of toolkits, policy briefs, organizing manuals, and training videos—free to use, adapt, and share under an open license.
A field-tested guide to relational canvassing, with sample scripts, safety protocols, and tips for tough conversations.
A five-state analysis of post-pandemic displacement patterns, with policy recommendations grounded in resident testimony.
Eight modules covering protest safety, legal observer roles, peer support, and bystander intervention frameworks.
An interactive map and reference guide to protest rights, permitting requirements, and key case law in every jurisdiction.
Behind every campaign is a person who decided their conditions weren't inevitable. These are some of them.
I came to Solstice after my family was evicted. Two years later, I'm on the board of our tenant union and we just won just-cause protections for the entire city. I found my purpose here—and a community that refuses to accept injustice as inevitable.
The leadership fellowship changed the trajectory of my career. I came in wanting to volunteer on weekends; I left with a job offer as a regional director. Now I run training cohorts for new members across the Southeast.
As an immigration attorney, I'd spent years defending individuals one case at a time. Solstice taught me how to use my training to defend systems—to challenge the laws themselves, not just navigate them. That's the work I was always meant to do.
If you have questions about membership, campaigns, or how your contribution is used, you're in the right place. Don't see your question? Reach out—we read every message.
We're structured as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, which means we can engage in political activity—but that's not what makes us different. What makes us different is that we are member-led, not staff-led.
Our staff exists to resource the strategies and demands developed by our chapters. We don't pick the issues and ask people to support them—we listen to what communities are already organizing around and bring organizational muscle to those fights. The people most affected set the agenda.
Absolutely not. Most of our most effective volunteers started with no organizing background. We provide training for every role—door-knocking, phone banking, event facilitation, legal observation, communications, translation, and more.
The only prerequisites are a willingness to listen, respect for the leadership of directly-impacted communities, and a commitment to show up when you say you will. We meet you where you are.
Every dollar is published in our annual financial transparency report, broken down by program, chapter, and campaign. In our most recent fiscal year, 87 cents of every dollar went directly to organizing, training, legal support, and direct member services.
We cap administrative overhead at 13%, which covers fundraising, accounting, and the bare minimum of operations needed to keep an organization of 130,000 members running. Our full audited financials are available on our Financial Transparency page.
Yes—and we actively seek coalition with aligned organizations. We've built powerful coalitions with tenants' unions, worker centers, immigrant defense networks, climate justice groups, mutual aid collectives, and faith communities across the country.
Reach out to our coalition team at partners@solsticecollective.org with a brief description of your organization and what you're working on. We'll set up a discovery call to explore alignment and figure out how our strategies can reinforce each other.
That's totally fine. Membership is free, and there are no obligations. We send a weekly newsletter and occasional action alerts—you can unsubscribe anytime with one click.
If something about our approach doesn't sit right with you, we'd genuinely love to hear why. Member feedback shapes how we evolve as an organization. The only way we get better is by listening to people who tell us when we're missing the mark.
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