Galvanize USA’s 2025: A Year of Social Cohesion & Unity
2025 was Galvanize USA’s best year yet! Let’s take stock of some heartwarming moments, most prosocial media, and major victories from this year. None of this would have been possible without support from blog readers and donors like you—these are your wins too!
In case you haven’t heard: Galvanize Together now has more than ONE MILLION all-time subscribers! That’s a milestone worth celebrating!
Let’s take a look at the popular, prosocial content we served to this growing audience in 2025.
Highlights from 2025
DEAR GRACE®
Dear Grace® had a fantastic year. Our popular advice column answered more than 85 questions in 2025, covering everything from setting boundaries to navigating abortion laws to talking about immigration and family separation.
Grace’s columns helped readers make sense of the world during a challenging year. They also took on the topic on everyone’s mind: making ends meet in this economy. Grace tackled the real emotional weight of economic insecurity with sensible advice, good humor, and an abundance of empathy.
Grace’s advice on work and money is really making a difference!
“Grace I learned that from you that if I work my own job (even if I’m married or not) I should have my own bank account.” –Reader in Chicago
Her validating, supportive columns are changing lives in other ways, too.
“I really don’t have a question but, I’d like for you to know that you make a huge difference in people’s lives! Keep up the amazing work you do!” –Reader in North Carolina
We love getting to watch our audience of ideologically-moderate women build up their self-esteem, develop healthy boundaries, make sense of the economy, and take charge of their civic power in real time. By the way, did you know that Dear Grace® is syndicated? Grace is reaching new audiences through features in Courier publications, and we hear it’s their top-performing external content!
Our audience loves to write in with their own advice for each other too! In 2025, we shared 21 columns of reader-generated advice, both through our Ask The Readers series and special bonus columns. Check out a couple of our popular favorites:
- Ask the Readers: How Can I Be a Good Leader?
- Bonus: I’m Worried About the Kids in My Neighborhood Going Hungry This Summer
We love to see such thoughtful advice from our audience!
HOT TOPICS
Of course, our audience doesn’t just read our advice column, they get to write in and vote in polls, too! We asked our audience to check in and share their opinions in over 40 Hot Topic quizzes this year. Take a look at a few of our favorites!
These quizzes are great for so many reasons! They invite women to pause and think about what they think, helping them to really take a perspective on the issues that matter. This year we covered everything from internet trends to major news to how users are feeling about relationship dynamics in their lives. By showing how other women answered, it also offers a sense of connection and belonging! It helps us show readers that no matter their perspective, they are not alone. We’re offering them connection, belonging, and social proof! Internally here at Galvanize USA, we also really like learning more about our audience this way. Who knew that 23% of our audience is in a union, or that 77% prefer coffee to tea?
IN FOCUS
In Focus had its best year ever, and Galvanize Together’s impactful community conversations expanded into in-person events, too! Sitting down at the same table with our audience is even more rewarding than connecting with them online, and we’re so grateful for the opportunity.
If you only have time to watch one piece of content, we’re begging you to check out “Pieces of Us.” It’s such a fun example of how Galvanize USA is countering the division and polarization in this country. Our staff loves how quickly and deeply women connect in this video, and how a shared experience opened participants up to bonding across differences.This is social cohesion in action!
Clips of that video have more than five million views on TikTok, and we’ve been flooded with positive, wholesome comments across the internet where women are seeing this video content.
“This was absolutely beautiful to witness! 💛… it didn’t matter the age, the background, or the differences. Just pure connection, kindness, and joy. A reminder that when we choose love over judgment, unity over division, powerful things happen.”
The in-person content continued through In Community. What happens when six women from different backgrounds come together and have open, honest conversations about the world? Really good things!
If you don’t have a full hour to watch, you can see our team’s favorite moment in just 30 seconds.
If you haven’t checked out In Focus yet, start with a staff favorite! Our team loves the menopause video because it was so empowering, thought-provoking, funny, and informative.
If you’re in the mood to scroll, check out more In Focus on YouTube Shorts!
We’re so proud of our thriving digital community this year. To date, we’ve been texting our column out to our rapidly growing subscriber base several times a week. We know we’ve created something ideologically-moderate women love and return to—now it’s time to give it expanded reach! As we head into 2026 we’re exploring broader syndication and adapting the content for new audiences, including the creation of a new digital show where influencers discuss Grace’s advice. We can’t wait to reveal what’s in store for Grace, Galvanize Together, and even more prosocial programming soon! But for now, please enjoy this look at all of our best moments from 2025.
Feeling inspired? We’d really appreciate your support! We’ll need a lot of help from our community to reach millions more women with our prosocial content, so if you’re in a position to make a gift, it would really make a difference.
