Throughout American history, real and lasting change has been led by a committed few. In the mid-1760s, colonial organizers built networks of people outraged by the king’s Stamp Act. In the years before the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, women organized against the “Cult of True Womanhood” and its impossible vision of women as the ever-pious, submissive, home-obsessed wife. In 1934, Henry Gerber started the Chicago Society for Human Rights, a gay-rights advocacy that pre-dates Stonewall by decades.

These examples and more reiterate one truth that Margaret Mead found about change and society:

"History teaches us that even a small, committed group of individuals can transform the world. Imagine what 3.5% of the population can achieve."

--Margaret Mead

That's our goal. To organize 3.5% of Michigan, tear down the barriers of inequality and replace what remains with dignity and opportunity.

The committed few mentioned above are now a superpower, an empowered gender, and a people slowly but certainly moving towards public acceptance. With your help, maybe we can do something that ambitious as well.

We want to organize 3.5% of the state of Michigan

We need you and about 349,999 other Michiganders.

At Michigan United, we see the effort needed to dismantle the systemic barriers that perpetuate inequality. To build that kind of power, we need to organize 3.5% of the state’s population. Starting with you. 

Project 3.5 is equivalent to the attendance of three U of M football home games or 16 Tiger home games.

But instead of winning on the field, we need your help fighting to win on healthcare, a clean environment, equitable treatment of immigrants, and reforming how the system treats people released from the corrections system.