Still in the sponsoring phase, the Tri-Cities Alliance will be an alliance of faith, labor, health education and community organizations dedicated to building a base of everyday civic leaders to effectively stand for change they want to see in their communities.

We organize people power to create a better Tri-Cities region for all.  

You’ll find us working for change from the bottom up: door-to-door and in living rooms, in congregations, union halls, community centers.

We work to hold both public and private power holders accountable for their public responsibilities. We don’t expect others to do for us - we initiate actions of our own to address community and economic problems.

Tri-Cities Alliance is a multi-issue organization. 

The issues we work on change from year to year, arising directly from the concerns of the people in our member organizations, lifted up through shared stories.

We cross economic, faith and neighborhood lines to find common ground and act on our values.

While collective action is a critical part of what we do, Tri-Cities Alliance's primary work is leadership development to equip members to be effective, active, civic leaders.  We offer Leadership Institutes and on-the-ground leadership training opportunities.

Tri-Cities Alliance is non-partisan and non-profit, supported by the dues of our member organizations, individual donors, and foundation grants.  

Goals

Tri-Cities Alliance has three primary goals:

• Effective everyday civic leaders with the skills and confidence to advocate on their own behalf on issues of their choosing.
  
  
• Strong member organizations that apply the tools and practices of relational community organizing internally

• Thriving communities working for the common good through collective action

Affiliations

Sound Alliance is affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation(IAF), the oldest and largest network of community organizing alliances in the world.  We are also part of the IAF Northwest, a region that includes affiliates in Oregon, Washington, Montana, New Zealand, and Australia.

Through these affiliations, our members gain access to an organizing philosophy and practices developed and tested over the last 75 years. They have the opportunity to further their community leadership skills and mix with other civic leaders from around the region and country by participating in regional and national intensive trainings.