About TMO-Houston

The Metropolitan Organization (TMO) is an organization of congregations, schools and other institutions dedicated to developing power and leadership among ordinary citizens to transform democracy in the City of Houston. TMO's mission is to develop leaders in institutions who act on their faith and democratic values in the public sphere. TMO is a member of the Texas Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF), a network of community-based organizations in 12 Texas cities that work together on statewide issues.

For over 20 years, TMO has established a track record of successfully organizing around issues that affect families and communities in Houston.

In the early 1980’s TMO brought large-scale investment in public infrastructure, obtaining railroad overpasses for major East-Side streets, acquiring major drainage improvements along bayous in Southeast Houston and winning the first flood-related regulations on developments in Houston’s history.

During the 1980’s and early 1990’s, TMO set a national precedent by creating community-oriented policing in several Houston neighborhoods, constructed homes in Northeast Houston for low-income families and won a $40,000,000 reduction in electricity rates.

Currently TMO is organizing around an agenda of issues that includes Education and After-school programs, Healthcare, Abandoned Housing, Public Transportation, Flood Protection and the Fair Treatment of Immigrants.

See recent accomplishments

TMO is:

Broad-based, consisting of a coalition of congregations and other institutions that is striking for its diversity. TMO members are Hispanic, Anglo and African-American and currently include Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Church of God in Christ congregations. TMO is dedicated to negotiating across the racial, economic and religious lines that ordinarily divide our City.

Faith-based, involving men and women of diverse faith communities, who are committed to acting on the call to social justice that is central to varied faith traditions.

Non-partisan, never endorsing candidates or political parties, but embracing fully the art of politics –– the discussion, debate and active participation necessary for persons to reclaim their birthright as citizens in a democratic country.

Multi-issue, working on a diverse agenda of issues that comes from hundreds of individual and small group conversations in and around member institutions.

Results of our work together in 2003

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