Laurel Fish, senior organizer with the Spokane Alliance, knows that many solutions to issues people face are not realized because people lack the social and political will and skills as individuals to enact policy changes on their own.

The Spokane Alliance gathers people in faith communities, labor unions and community organizations like nonprofits and childcare providers to share and listen to each other's stories and concerns—on healthcare, housing, homelessness, childcare and other issues. In the process, they identify common threads for working and acting together so they have an impact.

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