{"id":4531,"date":"2020-01-29T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/learning-downstream-working-upstream\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T20:16:42","slug":"learning-downstream-working-upstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/north-blog\/learning-downstream-working-upstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Downstream. Working Upstream."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4694 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kid-by-water-Photo-by-alecia-follett-from-Pexels-500x333.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kid-by-water-Photo-by-alecia-follett-from-Pexels-500x333.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kid-by-water-Photo-by-alecia-follett-from-Pexels-1620x1080.jpeg 1620w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kid-by-water-Photo-by-alecia-follett-from-Pexels-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kid-by-water-Photo-by-alecia-follett-from-Pexels-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kid-by-water-Photo-by-alecia-follett-from-Pexels.jpeg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><em>By Kate Fish, ANCA Executive Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne day a group of villagers was working in the fields by a river. Suddenly someone noticed a baby floating downstream. A woman rushed out and rescued the baby, brought it to shore and cared for it. During the next several days, more babies were found floating downstream, and the villagers rescued them as well. But before long there was a steady stream of babies floating downstream. Soon the whole village was involved in the many tasks of rescue work: pulling these poor children out of the stream, ensuring they were properly fed, clothed, and housed, and integrating them into the life of the village.<\/p>\n<p>While not all the babies, now very numerous, could be saved, the villagers felt they were doing well to save as many as they did. Before long, however, the village became exhausted with all this rescue work. Some villagers suggested they go upstream to discover how all these babies were getting into the river in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>A huge controversy erupted in the village. One group argued that every possible hand was needed to save the babies since they were barely keeping up with the current flow. The other group argued that if they found out how those babies were getting into the water further upstream, they could repair the situation up there that would save all the babies and eliminate the need for those costly rescue operations downstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t you see,\u201d cried some, \u201cif we find out how they\u2019re getting in the river, we can stop the problem and no babies will drown? By going upstream we can eliminate the cause of the problem!\u201d \u201cBut it\u2019s too risky,\u201d said the village elders. \u201cIt might fail. It\u2019s not for us to change the system.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>This story really resonates at ANCA.<\/strong> It is at the heart of the spirited discussions we have at staff meetings and with our board. The two options are decidedly not the same. The first, while taking care of people at the margin, struggling communities and small businesses, does not address the underlying causes of the problems. The second, while fixing the system to produce a more level playing field, does nothing to address the immediate needs of people who are struggling now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, what are we doing?<\/strong>\u00a0We are tackling both challenges\u00a0by using what we learn from solving the short-term and immediate to change the way the system works. We also recognize that the first approach, for which systems of charity and social services have been developed, is far better funded in this society.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4690 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Downtown-Saranac-Lake-Winter-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Downtown-Saranac-Lake-Winter-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Downtown-Saranac-Lake-Winter-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Downtown-Saranac-Lake-Winter-1080x1080.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Downtown-Saranac-Lake-Winter-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Downtown-Saranac-Lake-Winter.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>School backpack programs (getting the babies out of the river) are easier to find funding for than changing the way the economy works for disadvantaged families (going upstream to stop the babies from falling into the river) so that fewer kids need weekend backpacks to meet their family\u2019s food needs. Changing the system, which requires changing the way our systems and markets work, is far less understood and therefore harder to fund.<\/p>\n<p>This dilemma and how we resolve it is at the heart of how we are roadmapping our work for the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>ANCA is about to unveil our 2020-2025 Strategic Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Our vision is simple \u2014 and huge: \u201cA New Economy That Works For All.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>But who is \u2018All\u2019?<\/em>\u00a0It\u2019s the people who live here who have been left out due to a history of an extractive economy that drained wealth out of the region and left\u00a0low-value, vulnerable jobs. It&#8217;s the communities that have lost tax base, population, and Main Street businesses. It&#8217;s the farmers and young families who are showing up looking for a quality of life and welcoming communities that they can\u2019t find in cities. It&#8217;s clean water and air, breathtaking landscapes and mountains and the abundance of wild things who share this place with us.<\/p>\n<p>This New Economy needs to work for all of these.<\/p>\n<p>Our mission is also simple \u2014 and huge: \u201cBuild prosperity across Northern New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>What is Prosperity?<\/em>\u00a0It evokes abundance, well-being, thriving, flourishing, growth and success.\u00a0It is far bigger than just material wealth. It is about cultural richness, sharing spaces and resources, work that is rewarding, engaged citizenship, healthy quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Our big idea is also simple and huge, \u201cKeeping wealth and value in local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>How do we do that?<\/em>\u00a0It means that everything we do, every plan we come up with, every policy recommendation we make, has at its core the goal of keeping wealth local. With three sectors as\u00a0our central focus \u2014 local food systems, clean energy and the entrepreneurial economy \u2014 our driving motives are to keep dollars in local communities and grow the number of people and businesses here that are flourishing.<\/p>\n<p><em>What does it look like on the ground working both downstream and upstream? <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4693 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CBIT-2020-liaisons-for-press-500x352.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CBIT-2020-liaisons-for-press-500x352.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CBIT-2020-liaisons-for-press-768x540.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CBIT-2020-liaisons-for-press.jpeg 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Center for Businesses in Transition.<\/strong>\u00a0This program is founded in data (over 10,000 small, baby-boomer-owned businesses are at risk of closure\u00a0due to retirement in our region),\u00a0 grounded in day-to-day work with these businesses to determine what they need, and implemented by corralling the partners and expertise to make needed tools accessible and affordable for business owners and entrepreneurs. Within the past year, 88 small businesses are in transition, 42 entrepreneurs are looking at taking them over, and 98 partners and community liaisons\u00a0 are involved. We use the downstream information to inform or design the upstream system changes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The farm-to-school program.<\/strong>\u00a0Downstream work from farms to school lunch rooms led to informing policy that is changing the way school lunches are reimbursed by the state (upstream). Then back downstream again to identify and eliminate gaps in the production, and distribution to school food service systems. These programs also work\u00a0by streamlining the system and helping producers get local food kids will like into school cafeterias.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/adirondack.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Press%20Release_Watertown%20School%20Salad%20Bar.pdf\" alt=\"\" \/>ANCA\u2019s Clean Energy Program.\u00a0<\/strong>This program is founded in downstream\/upstream coordination. Boots-on-the-ground work in North Country communities made it clear that municipal leadership would benefit from our support along several critical fronts. Inventing a program that earned funding and delivered that support (technical expertise and access to options and funding) has led to 195 communities engaged in clean energy projects, including 20 municipalities that received $1.4M in incentives, and nearly a megawatt of residential solar being installed. And, the State took our lead and built a statewide program that offers this kind of support.<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few examples. Looking forward to 2025 and the opportunity-rich decade ahead, we are thinking big and using this upstream\/downstream approach to grow a New Economy that works for All.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that we can save our babies \u2014 our farms, small businesses and communities \u2014 in the short-term and stop them from falling into the river in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4691 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adirondack.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/F2S-Picnic-student-3-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo 1 by Alecia Follett<br \/>\nPhoto 2: Main Street, Saranac Lake, NY<br \/>\nPhoto 3: The Center for Businesses in Transition team: 2020\u00a0community liaisons and lead partners<br \/>\nPhoto 4: A Watertown student enjoys locally grown sweet corn as part of the Drive for 25 Farm to School program.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kate Fish, ANCA Executive Director &nbsp; \u201cOne day a group of villagers was working in the fields by a river. 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