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What is ONE Wake?

ONE Wake is about people: developing their innate skills and ability to work with each other to identify common problems, to find or create workable solutions, and to work together to implement systemic changes within society to achieve the common good.

ONE Wake is a non-partisan, multi-ethnic, multi-issue group of religious congregations, associations, and other non-profits in the Wake County area with aggregate membership totaling in excess of 50,000 households.

ONE Wake does its work by:

  • Conducting thousands of individual and small group meetings with clergy and lay leaders;
  • Training congregational representatives in how to understand and affect local and regional political processes;
  • Developing a large leadership core from those representatives;
  • Identifying issues of concern to all sectors of the community;
  • Strengthening relationships within and between member congregations;
  • Forging alliances across the lines of religion and ethnicity to develop a broad-based vision for Wake County;
  • Moving that vision into a multi-issue agenda of action for the organization.

In the spring of 2023, ONE Wake engaged in a grassroots listening campaign that engaged 2,000 Wake County residents to understand the top three pressures facing our families and communities - Affordable Housing, Mental Health, and Public Transportation. Learn more about these issue campaigns here.


Catholic Social Teaching: Call to Family, Community, and Participation

"The person is not only sacred but also social. How we organize our society—in economics and politics, in law and policy—directly affects human dignity and the capacity of individuals to grow in community... We believe people have a right and a duty to participate in society, seeking together the common good and well-being of all, especially the poor and vulnerable." - USCCB


For more ONE Wake information: Visit the ONE Wake website at https://www.onewake.org. Stay up-to-date with ONE Wake's upcoming research meetings, events, and public actions by signing up for alerts for each of their active issue campaigns.

ONE Wake Parish Liaison | Nancy Dilger; ndilger3@gmail.com


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Become a St. Francis ONE Wake Core Team Member!  

We meet regularly throughout the year to discuss our parish participation as an institutional member of ONE Wake. Our team regularly attends ONE Wake assembly's and provide key support at campaign events.

ONE Wake Parish Liaison | Nancy Dilger; ndilger3@gmail.com