Hosting a casual networking meetup for local organizations and community groups who want to connect and support one another. There will be plenty of time for conversation and getting to know each other, along with short 2–5 minute introductions from each group about what they’ve been working on, what’s coming up, or where extra support would be helpful. It’s a simple way to build connections and strengthen the broader community. Please RSVP if you’d like to join.

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026
Time: 6 PM – 8 PM
Location: We will send out an email prior to the event with location details. We are still looking at venues and need to determine how many people are coming.

RSVP By Wednesday, February 18th

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Attendees

🌟 Individuals Looking for Groups – 6 People Attending

🌟 Affinity (GCGC) – 2 Reps Attending

The Affinity Group is a community-care–focused subgroup of Gallatin Community Gun Club centered on connection, mutual support, and preparedness. Activities include food drives, phone trees, resource sharing, and other projects that strengthen community resilience. Participation is open to GCGC members who want to connect, contribute, and care.

🌟 Bozeman Mutual Aid Community – 5 Reps Attending

“Join Us in Building A Stronger Bozeman Community Together!” The Bozeman Mutual Aid Community aims to support our local community members who face primarily food insecurity by organizing events, like our monthly Free Market (a farmers market style event driven purely by community donations) where all Food & Goods are entirely free. We gather volunteers and community members together to foster a supportive environment to address local needs effectively. Our Free Markets invite everyone to bring what they can and take what they need. Donations include handmade meals (in accordance with the Montana Local Food Choice Act), baked goods, garden produce, preserved foods, household goods, and much more. No money changes hands – this is neighbors helping neighbors. Our mission is to ensure that no one in Gallatin Valley goes hungry.

🌟 Bozeman DSA – 7 Reps Attending

We are the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America who push for structural changes that give power to working class people in their every day lives. We are a democratically run and member funded organization who’s current efforts include Social Housing, Eco socialism, Mutual Aid, and supporting local labor organizing. As activists, we are committed to democracy as not simply one of our political values but our means of restructuring society. Our vision is of a society in which people have a real voice in the choices and relationships that affect the entirety of our lives. We call this vision democratic socialism, a vision of a more free, democratic and humane society.

🌟 Bozeman Tenants United – 2 Reps Attending

We are Bozeman Tenants United, the local Union of renters, fighting for safe, dignified and affordable housing for all.

🌟 Carol’s Little Resistance Cell – 1 Rep Attending

Our goal is to provide a safe place for people to show their signs with their opinions about the current presidential administration. We embrace non-violence in our actions and work with the Bozeman police to create that safe space whether at the courthouse or at a freeway overpass. We started protesting in summer of 2025 with small protests on Tuesday mornings (20 to 30 people) and Saturdays at noon (2 to 200 people) and our membership has grown to nearly 500 people who read the newsletter and protest when they are able.

🌟 Gallatin Community Gun Club – 2 Reps Attending

The Gallatin Community Gun Club is a Bozeman-based, community-focused nonprofit centered on firearm safety and education, medical training, self-defense, and preparedness. We focus on creating a welcoming, inclusive space for people of all experience levels to learn, ask questions, and build practical skills, while also building real community along the way. Through classes, events, mutual-aid efforts, and partnerships with local organizations, we aim to support both individual preparedness and the well-being of the broader Gallatin Valley.

🌟 Gallatin Roller Derby – 1 Rep Attending

Local adult roller derby league open to everyone 18 or older. We are an amateur sports organization that fosters national sports competition through the development of amateur athletes for national competition in roller derby. Our members are proud to be positive role models for young people by displaying a good sense of sportsmanship, personal integrity, and ethical conduct and look forward to continued growth regionally and nationally. We are a registered non-profit organization.

🌟 Love Thy Neighbor – 2 Reps Attending

Working to organize the community of Bozeman by neighborhood for mutual aid etc.

🌟 Montanans for Palestine – 3 Reps Attending

Montana 4 Palestine (MT4P) builds community solidarity and power for the liberation of people resisting occupation, from Palestine to Turtle Island, through education, collective action, and community support.

🌟 Students for a Democratic Society – 4 Reps Attending

We are generally progressive student group working to bring meaningful change to the MSU campus and in our communities. We are a fighting organization.