Our Mission
To create a thriving community by connecting people, resources, and solutions throughout the Mohawk Valley.
Who We Are
We are problem solvers, innovators, and connectors.
We go after our community’s toughest challenges, develop solutions, and work with people from all walks of life to turn those solutions into action. It’s not easy, but we don’t ever give up.
What We Do
We focus on more than just a single issue facing our community.
We build stronger communities by improving access to health and wellness, economic stability, and community responsiveness — the building blocks for a thriving community.
Impact Action Strategies:
Health and Wellness: Our goal is to support people with complex needs and those who struggle to afford basic needs. We provide direct and indirect services through programs, partnerships, funding, and volunteer opportunities to diminish food insecurity, improve access to mental health, and programs that focus on supporting those experiencing substance misuse.
Economic Stability: We strengthen and broaden our revenue streams and collaborate with community partners to address critical aspects of economic stability, including housing, employment, transportation, and education.
Community Responsiveness: We collaborate with our community partners and engage our community members to develop a comprehensive response system that supports individuals during critical and urgent needs.
How We Do It
We create innovative solutions to our community's most pressing needs.
We’ve been building a stronger community since 1921. We do it by working together. Together, we take a hard, long look at the problems facing our community. We involve experts and leaders, practitioners, and people in the neighborhoods. We work across partisan and income divides, inviting everyone into solutions. We hold community conversations to bring people from all walks of life into the solution conversation.
Whether we’re driving agencies to common outcomes, leading an initiative, or creating collective impact, we’re the get-it-done people. We’re the stop-talking-start-doing-band-together-and-take-on-impossible-task-masters. No matter the odds, we surround a problem, and we fight to win—with results to show for it.
But there is more work to do. That’s why we set ambitious goals and hold ourselves accountable. That’s why we listen hard and work hard to engage even more people in even better, bigger solutions. Because change doesn’t happen alone.
United in Collaboration | United We Thrive