Between the Ridges Alliance for the Common Good is organizing in the Yakima Valley around multiple issues with many partners.  For example, we sponsored a Training on the Foundations of Community Organizing in the Fall of 2023.  See below for comments from attendees about the tremendous value of this training.  Our Annual Yakima Advocacy Day brings together a diversity of community organizations to advocate for local, state and federal public policy around a range of issues and help develop our annual organizing agenda as we listen to the community.  Issues we are working on include environmental justice, mental health, immigration, healthcare, housing, food security, youth engagement and more.  We joined other local and statewide partners in successfully defeating I-2117 that would have dismantled the essential work of WA State’s Climate Commitment Act.  In January 2025 we co-sponsored a Defense Against Deportation Community Listening and Mobilizing Event in Wapato attended by a 100 people from the diversity of our community throughout our Yakima Valley.  This work continues with many partners as we help organize around strategies to stand in solidarity with our immigrant community. In May of 2025 we sent a team of seven to IAF Pacific 5-Day Regional Community Organizing Training in Spokane. In July of 2025 we sponsored “Medicaid Cuts Affect Us All” Forum organized by a powerhouse group of community volunteers. In Sept of 2025 our Environmental Justice Working Group put on “Harvest of Hope” Town Hall in Sunnyside.