Concept BDesign concept by Clearview for ADI's website RFP. This is not ADI's website — the real one is diversityadk.org. About this concept · See concept A

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Adirondack Diversity Initiative

The Adirondacks belong to us all.

An Adirondack Park and North Country where ALL people feel a sense of safety, connection and belonging — whether they live here or are visiting.

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A group of smiling program participants in winter coats on a rocky overlook, pine trees and blue sky behind them
From ADI's published photographs.

What is ADI?

The Adirondack Diversity Initiative is a small team working at the intersection of environmental and transformational justice. We train police agencies and businesses, run leadership retreats and outdoor programs, publish resources for schools and families, and bring people together — so that residents and visitors alike feel they belong in the Adirondacks.

ADI is a program of the Adirondack North Country Association (ANCA), a regional nonprofit building prosperity across northern New York. Who we are, and how ADI and ANCA fit together

Our areas of focus

Three areas. Every program sits in one.

At ADI, we place the lived experiences of community members at the heart of our work. Our programming, outreach and advocacy concentrate on three areas.

  • Safety & Belonging5 programs
    • Community Policing Initiative
    • Cultural Consciousness Building
    • Welcoming & Belonging micro-credential
    • Schoolyard Response Toolkit
    • Sustaining BIPOC Leadership
  • Nature Stewardship5 programs
    • Emerging Stewards Initiative
    • Alternative Spring Break
    • Claiming Space
    • Visitor Use Management
    • Land Trust Alliance Initiative
  • Community Building5 programs
    • ADI Symposiums
    • Arts Inclusion Initiative
    • Listening Series
    • Speaker Series
    • Cultural Celebrations Support
Design note: Concept B is organised around what ADI does: the three areas of focus, in the same blue, green and orange circles as page 6 of ADI's Program Guide. Concept A is organised around who is visiting. It's the same content and the same accessibility bar. ADI chooses the structure in Section A, after the listening, and a mix of the two is a real option.
Map of the Adirondack North Country The 14 counties ADI serves: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, Washington. A dashed green line marks the Adirondack Park boundary, the Blue Line, which covers much of the region. ClintonEssexFranklinFultonHamiltonHerkimerJeffersonLewisOneidaOswegoSaratogaSt. LawrenceWarrenWashington
  • The 14 counties ADI serves
  • Adirondack Park boundary (the Blue Line)
Drawn from public boundary data: counties from the U.S. Census Bureau (TIGERweb); the Blue Line from the NYS Adirondack Park Agency. Retrieved 27 September 2026.

Our reach

A small-but-mighty team across the North Country

  • 3people on the ADI team
  • 7areas of diversity
  • 14counties

The seven areas of diversity

  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Gender & Gender Identity
  • Sexual Orientation
  • Religious & Spiritual Beliefs
  • Age & Generation
  • Disability
  • Socioeconomic Status

The fourteen counties

  • Clinton
  • Essex
  • Franklin
  • Fulton
  • Hamilton
  • Herkimer
  • Jefferson
  • Lewis
  • Oneida
  • Oswego
  • Saratoga
  • St. Lawrence
  • Warren
  • Washington
Design note: The Program Guide's “Our Reach” page shows these counties on a map. Here the map is drawn in code from the Census Bureau's county boundaries and the Adirondack Park Agency's own Blue Line, not embedded from a map service. It stays sharp at any size, needs no third-party request, and the county names are also listed as text for anyone who can't see the map.

Out in the Park

All events and retreats

Next up · Safety & Belonging

Cultivating Community Leaders: the 2027 cohort

A four-day retreat at the Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks at Great Camp Sagamore in August 2027 (dates to be announced), for Black, Indigenous and Women of Color leaders. Applications open in early 2027.

Tell me when applications open

Earlier this year

Design note: Every event carries its date as data, so it moves itself from “Next up” to “Earlier this year” when the day passes. Nobody has to remember to take it down. When we looked in September, the Black Birders Google Site still said “Register Here!” for a day that took place on 30 May. That isn't anyone's fault. Four separate sites are simply four more places to remember.

“This has been a life-changing experience — and I do not say that lightly. I am still in awe of what transpired at Sagamore.”

A participant in ADI's Sustaining BIPOC Leadership Initiative
100%

of participants reported a deeper connection to nature, a stronger commitment to self-care, and a stronger support network.

About the initiative

ADI in the news

All news, 2019–2024

  • Letter to the editor

    Why the Confederate flag is so highly problematic

    ADI Director Tiffany Rea-Fisher · Adirondack Daily Enterprise · 14 February 2024

  • Opinion

    Quoting King: The time is always right to do what is right

    Melanie Reding · Adirondack Almanack · 11 February 2024

  • News coverage

    Symposium examines environmental stewardship

    Sun Community News · 26 February 2024

Design note: Most of ADI's news is other people writing about ADI, or ADI's staff writing for the regional press. So the news item here is a short form: headline, outlet, date and link. Posting press coverage takes a couple of minutes, and the homepage shows it without anyone touching the layout.

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Programs, events and resources across the North Country, from a team of three.

One field. On ADI's real site it posts straight to ADI's Constant Contact list; in this concept nothing is sent or stored.

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