AdkAction

08/08/2026

In just a few hours, more than 100 volunteers will come together in Tupper Lake for AdkAction’s first Day of Action. We’re excited to spend the day working alongside community members, lending a hand on projects that matter locally, and celebrating the people and spirit of Tupper Lake.

We’re especially grateful to the businesses, organizations, and individuals whose generous support is an important part of bringing this day to life.

Thank you for believing in the power of community and partnership. We can’t wait to get started!

08/04/2026

You may have heard about our big planting day in Indian Lake, when 77 volunteers came together to plant an 8-acre capped landfill with nearly 6,000 native plants. But another planting event, just a few days earlier, was no less important.

During the final week of the school year, about 60 Indian Lake Central School students helped plant tiny native seedlings they had grown themselves in milk jug cartons. Together, they filled one of the project's 10 planting zones with two varieties of native plants.

This hands-on experience is an important part of creating a thriving pollinator meadow. The long-term success of this habitat isn't just about getting plants in the ground. It's about building a connection to this place among the young people who live here and helping them develop a sense of ownership and stewardship for the land and the pollinators that depend on it.

Thank you to Mountain Lake PBS for telling this story and to the students, teachers, and community members who are helping this meadow, and the next generation of pollinator advocates, take root.

Watch the story to learn more about this special part of the project: https://mountainlake.org/students-bring-native-pollinator-plants-back-to-a-decommissioned-landfill/

Town of Indian Lake, New York Indian Lake Central School

07/30/2026

"Thank you seriously doesn't even come close to how grateful my family is for this!"

That's what one Fair Food Card participant told us after we increased monthly benefits in July. Six months into our WIC office partnership, families across the North Country are using nearly every dollar loaded onto their cards. Read what we've learned so far and what's next:

At the start of 2026, AdkAction changed how the Fair Food Card project reaches families across the North Country. Instead of enrolling participants directly, we partner with Women, Infants, and […]

07/13/2026

Every nonprofit has people out front solving problems.

But behind every successful project is someone making sure the budget is balanced, grants stay on track, volunteers are organized, payroll runs on time, events come together, and the countless moving pieces all work together.

We're looking for our next Operations and Finance Manager, someone who loves building systems, improving processes, and helping a team do its best work.

At AdkAction, you'll join a small, collaborative team that believes the best ideas come from listening, partnerships, and a willingness to tackle complicated challenges. One week you might be helping shape the organization's financial strategy. The next, you'll be coordinating the logistics behind a volunteer event, improving an internal workflow, or making sure a grant-funded project has everything it needs to succeed.

This is a role for someone who enjoys bringing order to complexity and finds satisfaction in creating the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that makes meaningful work possible.

If you're looking for a job where your work will have a visible impact on both your coworkers and communities across the Adirondacks, we'd love to hear from you.

Because when a nonprofit runs well, it can focus on what matters most: making life better across the Adirondacks through partnerships and creative problem solving.

Learn more and apply at https://www.adkaction.org/get-to-know-us/job-opportunities/

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07/09/2026

We need communities where people can grow up, not just grow older.

Every morning, dedicated and compassionate people welcome Adirondacks kids into school classrooms and daycare spaces so the rest of us can go to work. Between our AdkAction team alone, six different childcare centers and schools make it possible for us to fulfill our mission. They are also responsible for the impact we are making across the North Country.

The childcare challenge in the Adirondacks is real. Providers face razor thin margins, complicated regulations, and staffing hurdles, and universal childcare is still not a reality in New York State, with families struggling to access consistent and affordable care. Meanwhile, our region has been losing working age families for 20 years.

That's why we're taking a discovery-first approach to childcare, the same approach we use for every issue we tackle. Before we decide what role AdkAction should play, we're asking questions: of the Adirondack Birth to Three Alliance, the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country, local daycare centers, and home based providers - talented people already engaged in the issue. We believe in looking before we leap, so that whatever we build next is grounded in what our communities actually need today.

We're grateful to Chapel Hill Foundation for supporting our childcare discovery process this year, and their belief in our approach. Funders willing to invest in the work that happens before a project becomes a project are rare and deeply needed, and we don't take that trust lightly.

Read Executive Director Sawyer Bailey's recent reflection: Solving Childcare Takes All of Us https://www.adkaction.org/childcare/solving-childcare-takes-all-of-us/

07/08/2026

AdkAction turns 15 this year, so let's celebrate by getting to work! Join us in Tupper Lake, NY for our first ever Day of Action: a morning of hands-on volunteer projects that make a real difference, followed by a picnic lunch at Flanders Park.

📅 Saturday, August 8th
📍 Tupper Lake, NY

No special skills needed, just a willingness to pitch in. Register at www.adkaction.org/actionday/

06/27/2026

New Project: Can Log Landings Become Pollinator Habitat?

What happens when you combine a working forest, a bag of native wildflower seed, and a willingness to try something new? This summer, we're finding out.

AdkAction is partnering with the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) Ranger School on a new pilot project exploring whether forestry log landings can be transformed into thriving habitat for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. Log landings are the small clearings where timber is staged during harvesting operations, and they're heavily disturbed sites that typically go to waste after a harvest.

At two sites in Wanakena, our team established three experimental planting plots using AdkAction's Adirondack Pollinator Seed Mix, testing different site preparation techniques to learn what conditions give native plants the best chance to take hold.

This project grew out of a simple question and a willingness to test it in the field. AdkAction brought the seed mix and pollinator habitat experience learned through past projects; ESF Ranger School will be doing the on-site monitoring throughout the growing season. That's what good regional conservation looks like: low-cost pilots, the right partners, and results that anyone working in timber country can learn from and replicate.

Follow along on our Log Landings Pollinator Habitat project page: https://www.adkaction.org/project/log-landing-pollinator-habitat/

06/22/2026