Our Vision

Transforming the Yakima Valley

Our Vision is of a Thriving Community in our Yakima Valley with Strong Leaders and Vibrant Organizations collectively engaged in transformative action to achieve the Common Good.

Our Mission

Our Mission is to achieve the Common Good through listening and building relationships, strengthening our local voice, empowering, and developing leadership among the most impacted, and engaging the diversity of our community in effective, collective action for systemic change.

Our Values

  • We listen to one another.
  • We relish our interconnectedness.
  • We work patiently, inspiring hope in the arc of the moral universe bent toward justice.
  • We educate ourselves, do research and deepen our understanding to effectively address issues.
  • We embrace Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
  • We honor the everyday champions of change in our community.
  • We want full participation in our democracy, especially among the most impacted.
  • We protect and restore Human Dignity.
  • We live and act in ways that transform our community.

The Work Ahead

Learn about this model of organizing, how it is forming in the Yakima Valley, and our current goals.

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The Partners

See the organizations and individual community members involved in these efforts.

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How to Get Involved

How you can join in these efforts as an individual or as an organization.

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Get Involved

We are looking for leaders willing to invest time and resources into developing this broad-based alliance of organizations who will catch this vision and work toward making this a reality.  If you are interested, please contact us.

Individual Donors

We appreciate the generous donations from these individual donors in support of the formation of the Alliance for the Common Good:

Andrew Whitmont
Betty Van Ryder
Blaine & Preciosa Tamaki Foundation
Charles Forster and Joan Jacobs
Charley Mulvey
Cheryl Martin
Coleen Anderson
Danielle Surkatty
Elise Degooyer
Janet Louise Kincaid
Jeffery and Lucy Stevens
Joy E McKinney
Lana Dee Barnes
Lucy Valderhaug
Michele Nelson & Tim Janke
Philip and Gean Dindia
Ray Yates
Rev. David Hacker
Susan Kaphammer
William Jacobs

Participants Share their Feedback on the

Foundations of Community Organizing Training

Held September, 2023

“I love to see how passionate people are about many different injustices that can all intertwine somehow.  Sometimes it feels like being pessimistic is the only answer because of these injustices, but working together can get things done.”

Kareli, Nuestra Casa
“Solid principles to build a strong foundation for community organizing.  Yakima would greatly benefit from an alliance such as this!”

Mary, Casey Family Programs
“My hope is a coalition of many organizations to work for the common good, for the people and by the people would form in the Yakima Valley.”

Phil, Unitarian Universalist Church

“This is an amazing concept that I think would benefit my organization as well as the community.”

Coleen, 350 Yakima Climate Action

“Thank you for inspiring me to stretch my mind!  Exciting possibilities!”

Judy, Filipino Community
“I feel inspired, empowered, and ready to make change happen in our community.”

Karina, WA Conservation Action
“Very informative, with a deeper sense of me communicating with others as a better community leader and person.”

Maria, OIC

“Excellent. clear, informative, engaging, good modeling of teamwork, passion and respect. Exceeded Expectations!”

Sr Mary Ellen, Sisters of the Holy Names