What if recovery felt like living? We built that.
47 million dollars pledged. 10 million lives in reach. It starts with one question: what if recovery felt like living? Scroll down and we'll show you what that looks like.
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Million Goal
31.5% of campaign goal
$47.2M of $150M
Why We Exist
Recovery happens in community. Not in isolation. Not in waiting rooms. Not in programs that end and leave people with nothing to return to. In community — real, human, peer-to-peer community that actually works.
For too long, recovery has been treated as a private struggle. Something to endure in the dark, with your head down, alone in a room counting days. We know better.
When people in recovery find real community — not clinical programs, not waiting rooms, but genuine human connection built around shared experience and shared joy — everything changes. Sobriety sticks. Health returns. Purpose arrives. Families heal. The data is unambiguous. Eighteen years of outcomes back it up.
The Phoenix was founded in 2006 on a quietly radical idea: what if recovery felt like living instead of surviving? A small group of volunteers rented gym space in Denver and started offering free yoga classes. No cost. No prerequisites. No judgment. Just people showing up for each other around something positive.
The Campaign
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Community doesn’t just help people get sober — it transforms every dimension of their lives. Harvard studied it. Peer-reviewed journals published it.
The Crisis
People are more isolated than ever. It’s a public health emergency.
48 million Americans struggle with substance use or mental health challenges. Fewer than 10% ever access treatment. Cost, insurance, geography, and stigma shut most people out before they even begin. The system wasn’t built for them. We’re building something that is.
48M
Americans struggling with substance use or mental health challenges
<10%
ever access any form of specialized treatment
$35B+
in annual economic costs from untreated substance use disorders
Why Now
The window to act is open. It won’t stay that way.
The convergence of a loneliness epidemic, a substance use crisis, and a broken treatment system has created a moment that community recovery was built for. The Phoenix and NewForm have spent 18 years preparing for exactly this.
3x
Overdose deaths have tripled in the last two decades, driven by isolation as much as substance availability
61%
of Americans report feeling lonely regularly — the surgeon general declared it a public health epidemic in 2023
18 yrs
of proven outcomes give The Phoenix and NewForm the credibility to meet this moment at scale
We didn't build this on hope. We built it on what the data kept telling us. Eighteen years of outcomes, a research partnership with Harvard, and findings replicated across every population we've served.
The data has been telling us the same thing for 18 years. Community doesn’t just help people get sober — it transforms every dimension of their lives. Harvard studied it. Peer-reviewed journals published it. The numbers below are the proof.
The Proof
83%
Stay sober. Stay the course.
83% of members report staying sober at 3 months — nearly double the national average of 53%
92%
Better health. Real results.
92% report measurable improvements in overall health and wellbeing within their first year
2x
The community difference.
2x more likely to maintain long-term recovery than those without access to peer support
4 in 5
Recovery that multiplies.
4 in 5 go on to volunteer — turning their own recovery into someone else's lifeline
Our Solution
Three pillars. One movement.
The Together Transforms Tomorrow campaign funds three interconnected strategies — each one essential, each one proven, each one building on the others.
Reach Everyone, Everywhere
Make SUD and mental health support accessible to anyone, anywhere, on their terms. No waiting lists, no insurance requirements, no proving you deserve help.
Learn MorePower People to Lead
Build a national volunteer-led grassroots movement that will outlast any single program — powered by lived experience, not institutions.
Learn MoreRedefine Recovery
Turn community recovery from an aspirational idea into the new standard of care — through research, policy, and proof that can’t be ignored.
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You've seen the evidence. You've heard the story. Now be part of it.
$47 million is already committed. 80+ organizations are already building. Ten million people are still waiting. Your pledge today puts recovery in reach for someone who doesn't have it yet.