Create a Vibrant Region with Opportunity for All
Help our community speak with one voice.
We have a chance to make our community even better as we work to ensure opportunity for ALL. Please do your part now—listen, learn and collaborate with us. Together, we can do more than make a difference—we can make real change that will build a brighter future.
Take the first step. Take the Mohawk Valley Equity Pledge.
I Pledge to:
- Encourage diversity.
- Challenge injustice.
- Help build opportunity for all.
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Partnership Program
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Personal Stories
What does a vibrant region with opportunity for all mean to you?
Achieving opportunity for all means...
Equitable access to resources for all members of our community to live, work, and play.
Eliminating systemic barriers to allow equity for all individuals.
Systemic, socioeconomic, language, and cultural barriers will be irrelevant.
Every person in our two-county region must inspire others and commit to the cultivation, expansion and education about the freedoms and liberties we all are entitled to as Americans. Opportunity for all is everyone’s equal responsibility.
No human-created obligatory blockades to entry, access, and resources, such as capital, education, property, healthcare, employment, justice, information, and technology.
Ensuring everyone is treated fairly and with respect by our culture and civic institutions. It also means everyone who is willing to work hard can utilize their talents to achieve their maximum potential. When everyone is given a chance to pursue their dreams, our entire society benefits.
Creating equity for everyone and ensuring that such equality is sustained, and an even playing field where those farther ahead know to reach back—and those a little behind feel comfortable to reach forward.
That every person should be able to achieve whatever goal they set for themselves through hard work and perseverance. No one should ever have an unfair advantage over anyone else, and those who are having a difficult time overcoming the obstacles before them, deserve a helping hand.
Our city government will really look like us, and all its diversity will be fairly represented.
Inequality for no one.
Everyone and anyone gets a chance.
Having the information, support, and resources to find safe, healthy, and affordable housing in an inclusive neighborhood that welcomes everyone.
Truly recognizing that every single person is unique; each with thoughts, ideas, feelings, and dreams.
Identifying, reducing, and eliminating barriers so we can achieve racial equity and social justice across our community.
Solutions come in all shapes and sizes.
When all women especially women and girls of color feel secure and safe and are treated with equality in all ways: equal pay, equal opportunity, respect and fairness.
Having the ability to achieve your goals and aspirations without obstacles while living in a safe and healthy environment.
Creating an inclusive environment based on kindness, compassion and peace for all.
Decisions are made to improve every ethnic, racial and gender group’s well-being.
Everyone matters and everyone deserves a chance to live their best life.
Paving the path to a fair chance for every single person to learn, to compete, to get involved, to live out their dream, to have a healthy and thriving life, so that in the end we can truly say that everyone is seen and treated as equal.
The unconditional freedom of all people to prosper and flourish no matter their gender, race or ethnicity.
Everyone having the opportunity and ability to create their own destiny instead of one that is shaped by circumstances and barriers imposed by others.
A perfectly level playing field so folks can find success solely through their individual efforts.
That we value every resident, with dignity and respect, through collaboration and partnership, working toward focused outcomes for equitable social change.
Everyone will have the ability to achieve their dreams; our communities will live together in peace and respect each other for who they are; we will eliminate structural and institutional racism from our world and create a sense of belonging for everyone. Pursuing opportunity for all gives us hope for a kinder more beautiful world.
How Do I Get Involved?
Taking the MV Equity Pledge is a great first step to becoming part of this important community effort.
Give a Gift!
Contributions of any amount will help move the needle on this work to create equal opportunity for those in our community.
Hang up a poster
Download an MV Equity Pledge poster and help spread community awareness.
Kid's Coloring Sheet!
A picture can be worth a thousand words. Use this coloring sheet to start an open and honest conversation with children about race and racism.
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Step 1
Download the coloring sheet.
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Step 2
Color in the picture as you talk about this important topic.
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Step 3
Email us a photo of you and your finished artwork to info@mvequitypledge.org or tag us on social using #mvequitypledge.
Give a Gift!
Contributions of any amount will help move the needle on this work to create equal opportunity for those in our community.
Hang up a poster
Download an MV Equity Pledge poster and help spread community awareness.
Kid's Coloring Sheet!
A picture can be worth a thousand words. Use this coloring sheet to start an open and honest conversation with children about race and racism.
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Step 1
Download the coloring sheet.
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Step 2
Color in the picture as you talk about this important topic.
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Step 3
Email us a photo of you and your finished artwork to info@mvequitypledge.org or tag us on social using #mvequitypledge.
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