Humboldt Area Foundation

**Our Strategy & Values** A Thriving, Just, Healthy and Equitable Region **Our Strategic Vision** The Humboldt Area Foundation and the Wild Rivers Community Foundation together announced in June, 2021, our shared Strategic Vision that will guide our foundation efforts for the next ten years and beyond. The new strategic vision is an assertion of our values as well as a road map to guide how we invest and collaborate across our four-county region. We envision a generational outcome of: A Thriving, Just, Healthy and Equitable Region. This vision will be animated by four specific, decade-long goals: **Racial Equity** Transforming our institutions and structures to address the outcome gaps across every indicator of success, from infant mortality to life expectancy, that have been created by hundreds of years of racial oppression. **Thriving Youth & Families** Investing in the future by creating a safe, healthy place where generations of families can grow and have the chance to succeed — where everyone has the chance to experience support and success in their community and reach their greatest potential. **Healthy Ecosystems & Environments** Using traditional knowledge and cutting-edge science to clean our water, purify our air, maintain our soil, adapt to a changing climate, and provide sustainable sources of food, energy, water, and transportation. **A Just Economy & Economic Development** Bolstering economic development to create opportunities for each person in our region to have a dignified, productive, and creative life unencumbered by poverty or exploitation. We will be guided by five key perennial values to fulfill our goals and outcomes: 1. We seek to reduce economic, social, health, and environmental vulnerabilities that disproportionately impact underserved communities; 2. We are in active promotion of racial equity. We recognize that people of color possess unique knowledge, assets, and experiences that can elevate us all; 3. We will be adaptable and responsive leaders, addressing both urgent and systematic issues that affect our region; 4. We will partner and collaborate to increase impact, share resources and responsibility, build capacity, and diversify understanding; 5. We bring our region’s cultures and communities together in a spirit of learning, empathy, and connection. We empower local knowledge and invest in our community’s solutions. Together, these four goals will inform the programmatic and strategic work of the organization. As we embark on this strategic direction, we created a new organizational structure to enable our vision. Our new organization will empower our staff to utilize their many skills in direct service across Trinity, Humboldt, and Del Norte counties in California and Curry County in Oregon.