About Common Ground Kentucky
A Coalition for Kentucky’s Future
Our Mission
Common Ground Kentucky Action coordinates resources to support grassroots organizations building the organized people power it takes to strategically win elections and shape the political conditions that lead to a thriving Commonwealth for all Kentuckians.
Our Vision
We share a vision for Kentucky where we all have safe and affordable housing, fully funded public schools, good community jobs that pay a living wage, healthcare that is accessible and trustworthy, and work with elected leaders that reflect our vision and values.
Organizational overview
Our coalition is a connected network of groups and organizations representing many skills, roles, topic focuses, and bodies of work.
Our Shared Values
As a group, we share values in how we work together and make decisions together:
multiracial solidarity
economic freedom
Queer & Trans Liberation
Gender Justice
indigenous sovereignty
Disability JusticE
What Our Partners Do
Our partners are primarily organizations who work on grassroots and base building, labor, electoral accountability and political organizing, and mutual aid and direct service. Their expertise covers a broad range of topics, including civil rights and racial justice, reproductive health, worker’s rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, strategic voter turnout and candidate training, climate survival and mutual aid, and more.
And our partners reflect the communities all across Kentucky that we’re organizing in and the common ground we’re building together: young people, people of color, poor and working class people, people who are currently or formerly incarcerated, LGBTQIA+ folks, and immigrants and refugees.
But no matter where a partner is located, what issue they’re working on, or what their primary strategy is, every partner plays an important role in the overall hard work it takes to build enough people-power to win on our issues and elect candidates who reflect our vision and values.