A coalition is a group of organizations with a common goal that come together for the purpose of gaining more influence and power than the individual organizations can achieve on their own. A coalition, as social movement scholars have outlined, is one of the most effective ways for movements to gain power and create change. The coalition supports the work of the organizations involved and makes each stronger. “The importance of coalitions to social movements is illustrated both by research that documents how coalitions influence success, as well as by social movement theory. Mobilizing large numbers of people and demonstrating widespread support for an issue is one of the few ways social movements exercise power…research provides multiple examples of cases where a movement was unsuccessful because coalitions failed to materialize. [When] activists formed broad coalitions, movements were more successful (Van Dye & Amos, 2017).”