12/20/2025
At Our Local History, our core purpose is to tell the stories of our past to build and create a more equitable and just future.
In 2025, our partners sent a clear message: this work matters now more than ever. Because of our incredible collaborators and their commitment to the truth, we saw a year of transformative growth:
Expanded Reach: We led 290 workshops . Bigger Conversations: We engaged 11,000 people. New Roots: 43 organizations joined us for the first time. Deepened Trust: Over 60 partners invited us back to continue the journey.
Beyond the numbers, we’ve been hard at work expanding and deepening our workshops, resources, and lessons to reflect the specific histories of the communities we serve. This year, we were honored to unveil:
-Haudenosaunee Resilience and Resistance: A vital new unit on land dispossession and resistance in Greater Rochester.
-Syracuse & Ithaca: New units on LGBTQ+ Civil Rights.
-Ulster, Westchester, Chemung, Steuben, & Sullivan Counties: new units on local histories of Enslavement and Redlining.
-Binghamton: A new children’s book and grade 2 unit highlighting the legacy of Civil Rights leader Beccye Fawcett.
To every partner, collaborator, and community member who leaned in this year: Thank you. You are proving that when we face our history honestly, we build a stronger future together.
