To Ph's point about community building. One of my neighbors started a "Huddle" after the women's match and invited some friends to the first meeting last February. We just had our 12th monthly meeting last night and were "celebrating" some of our successes over the year. One of which was growing the group from about 11 at the first meeting to an email list of at least 50 with 20+ people at each meeting.
We've raised over $2000 for a local immigrant services org by selling yard signs. We raised over $4000 for local Va house races. We did post carding, phone banking, and canvassing to GOTV in Va. We also had some folks testify at the D.C. council meetings and call locally about various issues. Plus a bunch of members attended probably 10+ marches and protests this year.
Most of these women were not at all politically engaged before. And everyone's even more fired up going into 2018.
Not to mention the spur to donations. We used to do some ad hoc giving throughout the year, but now have monthly "sustaining" donations going to 5 different organizations (ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club, NPR, and the Greater DC Diaper Bank). I'm somewhat ashamed that I wasn't more supportive earlier, but I guess this is one good thing from the current administration?