Value Statement

We, the board and staff of Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, are in passionate pursuit of a just society and a just Tahoe Truckee community, where people of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and identities have an equal opportunity to thrive.

We seek to be anti-racist and dismantle the norms of white supremacy that pervade our society, to infuse equity into all aspects of our governance, operations and programming, and to equitably distribute and redistribute
resources in our community. We stand against hate and discrimination in all forms.

We foster diversity in our work and community, because diversity is non-negotiable, beautiful, and joyful, and because we are all stronger together.

We work to be fully inclusive, ensuring that all people, particularly those who have been systematically denied equal access to resources, lead the design of new systems and solutions. We seek and facilitate input from unlike-minded people, intentionally including the breadth of voices and perspectives in our community in conversations with the goal to reach workable solutions toward justice.

We approach conflict with compassion, listening to perspectives with curiosity, the desire to understand, learn, unlearn, increase connection, and solve long standing problems.

We purposefully examine our cultural environment – embarking on a conscious re-thinking of our language, assumptions, systems, norms, policies, and procedures and dismantling those elements that are unjust.

We come together in service of our community: to connect with each other; share and align resources collectively; and to co-create a place of home.