AdkAction 2025 Annual Report
Dear Friends,
Today, AdkAction celebrates 15 years of changemaking. In honor of this exciting milestone and the ways the world and the Park have changed in our lifetime, we have reinvigorated and refreshed our AdkAction mission, vision, and strategy, concentrating on what has always made us unique and deeply impactful.
Our mission is clear: We make life better across the Adirondacks through partnerships and creative problem solving. Our vision looks forward: An Adirondacks where people and nature thrive together. We take action together to make it so.
Guided by this north star, we lead our diverse portfolio of problem-solving projects with a singular approach. We begin by listening to understand the problems that surround us. We collaborate with local leaders, residents, members, and organizations to design and test creative solutions built for the unique community they inhabit. We focus on action that leads to visible, lasting change. We are not afraid to take thoughtful risks, adapt to changing conditions, and scrutinize the outcomes we achieve. Using this approach in the last 15 years, we have helped thousands of neighbors meet their basic needs, invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Adirondack economy, and launched over 40 independent venture projects, over half of which still live on today with AdkAction or other leaders.
We believe in designing our work in public and sharing what we learn along the way, because we know rural America has a lot to learn from the Adirondacks. By being transparent about both successes, insights, and setbacks, we generate lessons that can support other rural communities facing similar challenges and help shape a nonprofit model for the future.
Of the 2025 projects covered in these pages, some were launched as brand-new pilot efforts, others were refined through testing and learning, and several transitioned to new leadership as they reached maturity. We are grateful for the trust placed in AdkAction and our members for the past 15 years. And we are grateful for the opportunity to serve alongside so many dedicated individuals and organizations, for the next 15 and beyond.
Together we are working toward a better region for us all. We encourage you to take action with us in the year to come, to share your time and knowledge contributing to our understanding of problems and new project ideas, volunteering with our existing efforts, and shaping the direction our projects take. If you are learning about AdkAction for the first time and this community sounds like one you should be a part of, we hope you will be inspired to join us as a member. You can reach out to our team by phone or email anytime.
Thank you for being a part of community-driven action in the Adirondacks, and for believing a better world is possible starting right here, right now.
Sawyer Bailey, Executive Director & Elizabeth Ruscitto, Board of Directors Chair
Our Mission
We make life better across the Adirondacks through partnerships and creative problem solving.
Our Vision
An Adirondacks where people and nature thrive together.
Our Approach
How Ideas Become Action
Every AdkAction project follows a thoughtful pathway. We begin by understanding community needs, test solutions through short-term action, commit to long-term work when warranted, and support projects if and when they transition to new leadership.
At each stage, we pause to ask important questions. Only projects that meet clear criteria move forward.
Problem Discovery
Understanding What Matters Most
All of our work begins with listening.
We uncover and better understand community challenges by engaging residents, partners, members, and advisors. We review data, host conversations, and create opportunities for others to submit project ideas.
This stage ensures that we focus on issues that are real, shared, and suited to collaborative action.
Yes Test: Is this a well-defined problem where AdkAction can add value?
Short-Term Projects
Testing Solutions and Responding Quickly
Short-term projects turn ideas into action.
We design intentional pilot projects with clear short- and long-term goals. These efforts allow us to test new approaches, build proof of concept, and deliver early results. We also reserve capacity for rapid emergency or opportunity-based action.
Most projects begin here. Many projects end here after achieving defined success.
Yes Test: Is this solution showing measurable results and strong community support?
Long-Term Projects
Deep Investment for Lasting Change
Long-term projects represent our greatest level of commitment.
These initiatives are the most resource-intensive and focus on systems change, policy progress, and large-scale impact. Because of their scope, we can only pursue a limited number at a time. Each must offer meaningful learning and the potential for broad benefit.
Yes Test: Is this work creating lasting impact and valuable lessons at scale?
Graduated Projects
Sharing Success and Building Capacity
Successful projects are designed to move beyond AdkAction.
Graduated projects transition to a new organizational home, empower partners to replicate the model, or conclude after achieving their goals. We document lessons learned and, when appropriate, track outcomes after graduation.
This stage allows proven solutions to continue growing through community leadership.
After Action
Learning Blueprints, Toolkits, Guidance
Every project is an opportunity to learn.
We document what worked, what surprised us, and what we would do differently next time. These lessons become open-source resources such as toolkits, learning blueprints, and consulting guidance.
By sharing our successes and challenges, we help communities in our region and others in similar situations across the country and around the world build on what we have learned.
Our Projects
2025 Project Portfolio
Broadband-for-All
Capped Landfill Pollinator Habitat
Community Gardens
Clean Water Safe Roads Network
Fair Food Cards
Fair Share CSA
Farm to Family Delivery
Keeseville Community Arts Festival
Long Term Rental Catalyst
Pollinator Festival and Native Plant Sale
Pollinator Outreach and Education
Road Salt Outreach and Education
Rural Grocery Micro-Investments
Fiscal Sponsor for:
Adirondack Food System Network
Placid Earth Compost
Webb Community Garden
Projects Since 2010
In the past 15 years, AdkAction has convened, sponsored, instigated, launched, and led partnerships resulting in nearly 50 projects at all scales and durations, including those listed here.
Monarch Conservation
Property Assessors Conferences
Adirondack Road Salt Conferences
Rail Trail Study
Monthly Broadband Meetings
Technology in the Classroom
Shoreline Erosion Prevention
Broadband Advocacy
Invasive Species Education/Advocacy
Birth to Three Alliance
Community Art Banners
Cultural Symposium
Free Wildflower Seeds
Pollinator Partnership
Farmacy
Mountain Weavers Farm Store
Well Water Study
Plein Air Festivals
Pollinator Garden Assistance Program
Road Map to Reduce Road Salt
Native Plant Sale
Boothe River Park
Beyond the Peaks Student Film Festival
Compost For Good
Placid Earth
Emergency Food Packages
Solar Farm Pollinator Habitat Creation
Fair Food Pricing Coupons
Clean Water Safe Roads Network
Fair Share CSA
Keeseville Community Arts Festival
Fair Food Cards
Land Bank Convening
Adirondack Pollinator Festival
Library Pollinator Education Kits
Don’t Be Salty ADK Campaign
Adirondack Food System Network
Town of Webb Community Garden
Long Term Rental Catalyst
Indian Lake Landfill Pollinator Habitat
Don’t Be Salty Lake Champlain
Rural Grocery Micro-investments
Hamilton County Food Resilience Plan
Farm to Family Delivery
Food Access and Affordability
Food from small-scale sustainable local farms is out of reach– both economically and physically– for the many food-insecure households in the Adirondacks.
We are fighting food insecurity with multiple projects aimed at overcoming distinct hurdles. We provide free seasonal farm shares and easy-to-use local food stipends to families in need, while giving vital support to dozens of local farms and farm stores.
Meeting the Moment: Strengthening Food Access Through Community
In the Adirondacks, access to healthy, affordable food means battling long distances, limited retail options, and inconsistent public benefits. For many families, even a small disruption can lead to serious hardship. In 2025, AdkAction responded to two very different moments of need with the same focus: listening closely, acting quickly, and staying connected to the community.
When October’s Federal government shutdown continued into November, nearly 13,000 Adirondack households that depend on Federal SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) dollars were left waiting for funds stuck in limbo. With food pantries and social service agencies struggling to meet demand, we joined the emergency response effort by repurposing a tool from an existing AdkAction project: Fair Food Cards. These debit-style cards are loaded with funds and used at a network of farm stores, independent groceries, and local producers.
Within days, 100 new AdkAction Emergency Fair Food Cards were loaded with $100 each and distributed to 11 school districts around the Adirondacks. Partnering with schools meant educators and support staff could identify families who could benefit right away, without waiting for applications or paperwork.
For recipients, the cards provided choice, privacy, and stability during a difficult time while keeping money circulating locally and supporting farmers and small businesses. AdkAction is using data from the project to inform future emergency-response projects, ensuring that timely and useful actions can be taken when urgent needs arise in the Adirondacks.
As Emergency Fair Food Cards were distributed, another kind of AdkAction project was addressing food access in one Central Adirondack community. Indian Lake is located far from the bounty of locally grown food available in the Champlain Valley, and with 48% of the students in the school district coming from economically disadvantaged households, many families would be unable to afford the high quality vegetables and meats our region produces.
Working together with Indian Lake’s town and school leaders, AdkAction coordinated a one-time Thanksgiving ‘Farm-to-Family’ delivery to 125 households. Each package included a pasture-raised turkey or local beef roast and a box of fresh seasonal vegetables sourced from local farms. Farmers received full payment for their products and families received packages as a gift, thanks to grant funding secured by AdkAction. Buying directly from producers supported the local economy and ensured high quality.
When AdkAction confronts a problem we design a response drawing from a wide range of tools and strategies we’ve tested in the past. Both the Emergency Fair Food Cards and Farm-to-Family projects relied on long-term relationships and existing systems. In turn, each effort offered valuable lessons in coordination, flexibility, and the importance of local leadership. Those lessons continue to guide our work in the Adirondacks and inform other rural communities seeking sustainable food access solutions.
Short projects like these are just a part of AdkAction’s larger commitment to food access that includes our ongoing Fair Food Card project, seasonal Fair Share CSA, Rural Grocery project, and fiscal sponsorship of the Adirondack Food System Network.
Together, these stories represent more than just food. They highlight trust, timing, and the strength found in working together to build a stronger, more resilient Adirondack region.
“It was a tremendous blessing—for us, and for the local farmers we’ve gotten to know along the way.”
-Fair Food Card Participant, 2025 Cohort
‘Nourishing North Country Families’ Cooking Series
AdkAction’s 2025 Nourishing North Country Families project paired locally sourced CSA boxes with virtual cooking classes for 30 WIC (Women, Infants, Children) families. Over ten weeks, participants received seasonal produce ingredients via the ADK Food Hub and joined interactive online sessions to build cooking confidence, support early childhood nutrition, stretch food budgets, and strengthen connection to local farms.
Rural Grocery Micro-Investment Project
In 2025, AdkAction launched the Rural Grocery Micro-Investments project to support small, independent grocery stores that serve as essential food access points in Adirondack communities. The project provides store owners with personalized consulting and micro-grants for upgrades such as refrigeration, cold storage, recyclables management, and energy efficiency improvements. By helping grocers plan strategically, improve infrastructure, and expand fresh food offerings, this short-term project supports local businesses and helps ensure Adirondack residents have reliable access to healthy food close to home.
Pollinator Conservation
Many pollinator species are in decline due to habitat loss and fragmentation, pesticide use, climate change, and disease.
AdkAction empowers individuals and communities to plant for pollinators by providing resources, access to native plants, and educational opportunities to encourage hands-on pollinator conservation.
Growing Change in Unlikely Places
In 2025, AdkAction worked on two vastly different scales of pollinator habitat. At I-87’s High Peaks Rest Areas, just 36 square feet of gardens, arranged in six hexagonal beds, help educate the area’s 12 million visitors about the importance of Adirondack pollinator conservation. At a very different site in the remote community of Indian Lake, identical plants are beginning to take root in test plots atop an eight-acre capped landfill. While millions of people will never see this site, the lessons learned through its creation will reverberate across the state and inform similar plantings in places once considered wastelands. Together, these projects show how pollinator habitat in unlikely places can inspire others to take action in their own communities.
On a summer day in July, AdkAction teamed up with the New York State Department of Transportation and Essex County Soil and Water Conservation District to plant pollinator gardens at the High Peaks Rest Areas on I-87. In one day, staff and volunteers built and planted three raised beds at each location using native flowering plants chosen to support pollinators. As travelers stopped to watch and ask questions, the gardens began to fulfill their purpose. Later in the season, AdkAction added interpretive signs explaining why pollinators are important, how the Adirondacks fit into global migration patterns, and what people can do at home to help. Thousands of people pass through these rest areas each year. A project completed in one day now connects with visitors traveling to and through the region, turning a routine stop into a chance for learning and interaction.
AdkAction continued a years-long habitat creation project on a capped landfill in Indian Lake. Once a site for waste disposal, it is now being turned into a pollinator meadow and community resource. Supported by a New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Smart Growth Grant, this is the first large-scale restoration project of its kind in the Adirondack Park. In spring 2025, AdkAction and consulting ecologist Steve Langdon set up test plots using native seeds and young plants to discover which species thrive in the site’s conditions. Throughout the summer, Adirondack Pollinator Project intern Jess Lee monitored plant growth and conducted research through Colgate University. The findings are guiding a major planting phase in 2026, when tens of thousands of native plants will be added. This careful approach highlights AdkAction’s commitment to learning and being open. Some species thrive while others struggle, and each outcome helps inform future efforts.
From highway rest stops to former landfills, these projects show how thoughtful partnerships and steady effort can turn overlooked spaces into thriving habitats. Together, they prove that pollinator habitat can flourish in unexpected places, and that visible successes can inspire communities across the region to take action in their own backyards.
“This could, and should, be a model for positive reuse of capped landfills throughout NYS.”
-Adirondack Explorer Reader
People, Plants, Pollinators: A Conservation Celebration
Our Adirondack Pollinator Festival and Native Plant Sale is a joyful entry point for community action. In 2025, hundreds of visitors to the festival took home more than 2,000 locally grown, pesticide-free native plants for home gardens. Workshops and youth activities empowered attendees with the skills to grow backyard habitats and enthusiasm to advocate for pollinator conservation.
Road Salt Pollution
Over-application of road salt is contaminating our rivers, lakes, and drinking water.
We work with highway departments across the region to provide training and support in reducing road salt use while maintaining winter road safety. Our public education initiatives and advocacy for this issue are effecting change at the state level and beyond.
Clean Water, Safe Roads
In December 2025, 70 highway superintendents, drivers, and equipment operators gathered at the new Washington County Highway Department building for a beginning-of-season training hosted by AdkAction’s Clean Water, Safe Roads Network. Some arrived enthusiastic, others wary. Led by AdkAction partners Rob Vopleus and Phill Sexton of WIT Advisors, the session opened with frank questions. When it comes to salt reduction and in-truck technology, participants wondered whether public safety might be at risk. Instead of dismissing those concerns, the facilitators listened closely and encouraged open dialogue. As people felt heard, the tone gradually shifted. Participants began comparing experiences, asking curious questions, and sharing strategies that worked in their own garages. During the discussion, one attendee captured the heart of the conversation: “Your most important tool is buy-in.” That insight reflected the core of the Clean Water, Safe Roads Network: supporting a wide-spread culture change that protects clean water while keeping roads safe.
By lunchtime, many participants were discussing ways to track salt use, test new methods, and stay connected beyond the training. They left not with rigid rules, but with a shared commitment, greater understanding, and renewed confidence.
But what does it look like once that buy-in is established and a department has embraced a culture of road salt reduction and continuous improvement? Earlier in 2025, that question was already being answered at an end-of-season workshop that brought together a different group of highway crews and superintendents from across the Adirondacks. On a spring morning, participants gathered to reflect on the past winter and discuss what worked and what didn’t. Crews shared stories about sourcing plow parts, calibrating salt spreaders, handling tough storms, and responding to late-night weather events. The conversation was practical, detailed, and reflected years of experience.
No one attended because they had to. They were there because their work mattered to them. What began as an effort to save money or protect infrastructure and groundwater had grown into a tight-knit network of learning and accountability. Through open discussion and mutual respect, participants reinforced a sense of belonging beyond their individual garages or communities. They all believe in this cause.
Real progress starts with bringing people together, creating space for honest dialogue, and building trust before asking anyone to change. The Clean Water, Safe Roads Network relies on relationships, peer learning, and understanding that lasting improvements happen when communities learn alongside one another.
Through this collaborative, respectful approach, the Clean Water, Safe Roads Network has become a model beyond the Adirondacks. Lessons from small-town highway garages now inform conversations across New York State and other regions facing similar winter road challenges across the nation. By testing ideas locally and sharing results widely, AdkAction helps turn hands-on experience into practical guidance that benefits municipalities far beyond the Park’s borders.
“Your most important tool
is buy-in.”
– Washington County Training Attendee
Outreach to the Driving (and Shoveling) Public
AdkAction’s public outreach campaigns engage new audiences in understanding the dangers of road salt pollution and the steps we can take today to protect our rivers, lakes, and drinking water, while keeping winter roads safe. Practical tools like sidewalk salt shakers, along with eye-catching materials like glittery “Save Champy” stickers, are helping turn road salt into a topic of conversation in communities across the region.
‘Don’t Be Salty’ Goes Statewide
AdkAction’s Don’t Be Salty ADK and Don’t Be Salty Lake Champlain initiatives are sparking change beyond our region. Building on this local success, the statewide Don’t Be Salty NY outreach campaign is now underway, led by the New York State Departments of Environmental Conservation and Transportation, with guidance from AdkAction. Maybe you have heard or seen its advertisements this winter promoting road salt reduction awareness. The campaign is a powerful example of how AdkAction’s local ideas can help shape meaningful statewide action to protect our water.
Access to Housing
The Adirondack region faces a housing crisis, with a shortage of affordable, year-round homes making it difficult for people to live and work in the communities they love.
AdkAction’s Long Term Rental Conversion project asks “how can we encourage and support short-term rental owners to make the switch to long term? Can existing housing be ‘unlocked’ with a combination of monetary incentives, informational support, and public outreach to change hearts and minds?”
“We experienced firsthand the difficulty of hiring employees due to the local housing shortage…and would like to help address that need within our community.”
-Long Term Rental Project Applicant
Opening Doors:
Turning Short-Term Rentals into Long-Term Homes
When Jennifer Hutchins decided to convert her short-term rental in the Village of Essex into a long-term home, she was responding to a growing concern she saw all around her: fewer and fewer places for local families and workers to live.
Like many property owners, Jen had used her lakeside home as a short-term rental for several seasons. While it brought in steady income, it also required constant attention. Managing a cleaning service, maintenance issues, and guest needs took time, even in the off-season. As more short-term rentals appeared in her community, she began to wonder where year-round residents would find housing.
When AdkAction launched the Long-Term Rental Catalyst Project in partnership with Adirondack Roots and LivingADK, Jen applied right away. The program provides financial incentives and support to help property owners transition from short-term to long-term renting, strengthening the local housing supply and community stability.
Before finalizing the arrangement, Jen took time to get to know her prospective tenants, check references, and have in-depth conversations. Soon after they moved in, their new partnership faced an early stress test when an uninvited skunk “tenant” took up residence under the porch. Addressing the problem required teamwork, flexibility, and more than a little humor. Through it all, both landlord and tenants responded with patience, clear communication, and mutual respect, laying the groundwork for a strong, lasting partnership.
Today, Jen shares that long-term renting requires less day-to-day management while still providing a reliable income and better year-round care for her historic house. She finds that building strong relationships with tenants can make renting simpler, more stable, and more rewarding.
AdkAction created the Long-Term Rental Catalyst Project to test a simple but powerful idea: that converting existing short-term rentals is one of the fastest ways to expand housing options in Adirondack communities. This approach works alongside efforts such as land banks and housing rehabilitation to address the region’s housing crisis.
By learning directly from landlords and tenants, AdkAction continues to refine this model and share insights with partners across the region and beyond. Each successful conversion strengthens the case for practical, community-driven solutions.
Jen now says that if she can continue finding tenants like Sarah and Jason, she may never return to short-term renting. Her experience shows that property owners can find dependable renters, reduce daily workload, and play a meaningful role in keeping Adirondack communities vibrant and livable.
Putting Down Roots in the Adirondacks
For Sarah and Jason Gerhardt, finding Jen’s rental made it possible to return to the Adirondacks and begin building their future. After purchasing land in Westport to start a farm and build a home, they struggled to find long-term housing and began reaching out through short-term listings simply because so few other options were available. Stable, year-round housing has allowed them to fully invest in their community as farmers, professionals, and neighbors, demonstrating how access to long-term rentals helps working families put down roots and contribute to the places they call home.
Creative Communities
Rural Adirondack communities face disinvestment, vacancy and blight, and limited artistic opportunities, which impact social cohesion and economic growth.
AdkAction focuses on community-centered strategies for revitalization, such as our volunteer-driven arts festival in Keeseville that highlights community assets. brings in visitors, and instills pride and a sense of creative identity in the hamlet.
“It’s a win-win-win-win for all: exposure for businesses and artists, pride for locals, and another reason to visit here for seasonal folks.”
– 2025 Festival Survey Respondent
Project Evolution: Keeseville Arts Festival Prepares to Enter a New Chapter
One July day in 2017, a handful of artists set up their easels in Keeseville for what began as a simple experiment: Could a small arts event spark new energy in the hamlet? With leadership from AdkAction, that idea grew into one of the region’s most loved community celebrations.
By 2025, our Keeseville Community Arts Festival reached its strongest and most vibrant form. Forty plein air painters, dozens of local businesses, and over 500 residents and visitors came together for a multi-day celebration of creativity, connection, and place. Downtown buzzed with pride and enthusiasm, with residents highlighting the festival’s role in strengthening Keeseville’s identity.
That success was no accident. It reflected AdkAction’s project lifecycle approach in action: listen closely to community ideas, pilot promising solutions, build local capacity, and help initiatives transition into lasting, community-led institutions.
Over the past years, AdkAction headed up a local volunteer committee to design systems, engage day-of volunteers, secure funding, and refine programming. As the festival expanded, leadership and ownership increasingly rested with the community itself, ensuring the event reflected local character and priorities.
In 2025, following the most successful festival in its history, AdkAction and local partners began the next phase of this lifecycle: transition.
Beginning in 2026, festival leadership is moving to the Keeseville Free Library, a trusted community institution that is also celebrating its 100th anniversary. This transition represents a natural evolution from a project incubated by AdkAction to one steered by local leadership.
AdkAction is serving as a close partner and consultant in the handoff, sharing how-to’s, planning templates, promotional designs, fundraising materials, and operational guidance developed over years of experience to ensure continuity and long-term success.
The journey of the Keeseville Community Arts Festival, from a pilot plein air event to a permanent community tradition, reflects what is possible when local creativity is paired with sustained partnership. As the festival enters its next chapter, it stands as a shared community asset that belongs to Keeseville itself.
Your Trust in Us makes the Discovery-First, Agile Approach possible.
At AdkAction, every dollar we receive turns ideas into action. The many members, individual donors, and foundations who choose to make unrestricted gifts place their trust in AdkAction and make a powerful contribution to our mission.
This flexible funding allows us to say yes when invited to help solve emerging community challenges, rather than waiting for the longer timelines often required for restricted grants. This flexibility fuels our ability to make a significant impact.
2025 Year-End Financial Note:
This information is based on unaudited financial statements for the 2025 fiscal year, January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025. A copy of the latest annual filing for AdkAction may be obtained, upon request, from the organization (PO Box 64, Keeseville, NY 12944), on our website, adkaction.org, or at the NYS Office of the Attorney General at charities.nys.com.
Lynn Edmonds is Giving Local
For Lynn Edmonds, giving back is as natural as the mountains that have surrounded her for a lifetime. An 8th or 9th generation Adirondacker, Lynn grew up in Keene Valley and has spent her 80 years watching the region change, grow, and adapt. Today, she lives in Jay, in a home nestled among the trees, where her pollinator garden blooms with native plants that support the fragile ecosystems she treasures. Just beyond, in a quiet glade, a stone-lined labyrinth she created years ago offers a place for friends and strangers alike to walk, reflect, and find peace.
“I feel fortunate to be so deeply rooted in a place that is both a park and a collection of communities,” Lynn reflects. That connection to people and place guided her throughout her career supporting mental health in the Adirondacks, and it continues to guide her generosity today.
Lynn is quick to point out that she’s not a wealthy philanthropist. She gives what she can, steadily and intentionally, as a member of AdkAction’s Leadership Circle. Her monthly support may not make headlines, but it makes an impact—sustaining the work that turns possibilities into progress.
“AdkAction is an agency with incredible staff, working on local issues for local people,” she says. “I value that you have so many programs,not just ones you’ve started, but also those you strengthen in partnership with others. You help make our whole region stronger.”
Her motivation, at its core, is gratitude: “Who gets to live where I live and not be struggling to make ends meet? I feel blessed, so as long as I can, I will keep giving to AdkAction. I give to national causes too, but it makes sense to me to give to local organizations where I can see the benefit in our communities.”
Lynn’s story is one of roots: family roots stretching back generations, and community roots strengthened by her care. As a lifelong, working-class Adirondack resident, she embodies the truth that generosity isn’t measured in dollar signs but in devotion to place, people, and the future of the mountains she calls home.
Ways to Give
Membership
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Leadership Circle
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