Common Agenda
Our Common Agenda is our path towards clean and clear streams by 2040.
The Common Agenda is our Network’s shared vision and joint commitment to achieving meaningful impact through aligned priorities and collaborative action. It unites leaders across sectors – including business, municipal public service, higher education, conservation planning, and non-profit management – around clear goals for 2025–2030, all in pursuit of the ultimate aim: clean and clear water in Lancaster County by 2040.
Our shared mission is to rapidly accelerate and expand the ability of the partner organizations to restore and sustain healthy Lancaster County waterways. The Common Agenda outlines how we’ll get there.
Values
- Collaboration, not duplication: We support and elevate one another to achieve greater impact together than we could alone, combining our unique strengths instead of duplicating efforts.
- Think big, be bold: We operate with a bias toward action and innovation, driving results that build momentum for bold solutions and lasting positive change in our communities.
- Trust: The partners have confidence in each others’ abilities and share a commitment to a community-based approach that fosters accountability and trust.
- Clean and clear water for all: Access to clean water is a fundamental right. Through collaboration, we amplify diverse voices and work to ensure equitable access for all, particularly for those who have historically been denied.
- Transparency: We communicate how decisions are made and operate with genuine openness and authenticity.
- Responsive leadership: We are responsive to one another and our communities, adjusting our approach to meet evolving challenges and opportunities.
THE CHALLENGE:
More than half of Lancaster County’s 1,400 miles of streams are impaired.
Lancaster County streams have the highest amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment in monitored areas of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. With a mixture of rural, suburban, and city landscapes, the source for water pollution is broad – but so is the opportunity for conservation and restoration.
THE SOLUTION:
Build and sustain a local multi-sector collaboration, supported by a strong backbone organization, to advance a community-led Common Agenda toward a shared result.
To effectively achieve clean and clear streams in Lancaster County, our shared solution, vision, mission must all be synergistic parts of the process.
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