WATERFALL
UNITY
ALLIANCE
2025 ANNUAL REPORT
2025
Annual
Report
Waterfall
Unity
Alliance
CONTENTS
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b. 2025 Year in Review
c. 2026 Goals & Vision
d. Financial Impact & Budget
• Our 10 Year Story: Roots, Beginnings & Transformations
Renewed vision, projects and goals for the upcoming year.
2025 Financial impact and budget, 2026 projections.
• A Mission & Vision Renewed
• Letter From Our Board Chair: Bethany Yarrow
• Transitions: Skywoman's Forever Farm
• Introductions: Sheens Brown & Rowen White
2025 marks the ten year anniversary of the Waterfall Unity Alliance. The Alliance was initially formed as a frontline organization in 2015 when traditional Kanien’kehá:ka leaders from the Akwesasne Reserve came to stand with local residents against The Constitution Pipeline, a major fracked gas pipeline slated to cross ancestral Mohawk territory in the Schoharie Valley.
The Waterfall Unity Alliance was part of a coalition of grassroots groups that
successfully campaigned for New York State
to deny the pipeline’s construction permit, setting a historic precedent as the first
defeat of a federally approved, interstate mega-pipeline.
Our Story - Roots & Beginnings
Standing together against the pipeline also meant standing for each other, and for righting historical wrongs in the ways that we can in this generation. Members of the Alliance also made a foundational pledge to help open the door for the peaceful return of the Kanien'kehá:ka to their ancestral homelands – and to work together to protect the forest, waters, farms, wildlife and peoples of Skóhare and the Schoharie Creek bioregion.
In 2020, the Waterfall Unity Alliance changed from being a loosely organized frontline organization to a registered 501c3 whose mission was “to protect the Schoharie Valley and all Earth; build alliances across movements and cultures; and help create solutions to the existential challenges of our time". It was a transition from preventing harm to actively restoring and rebuilding ecological and community health for all peoples, in unity and in service to Mother Earth.
THE LONGHOUSE
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Standing together against the pipeline also meant standing for each other, and for righting historical wrongs in the ways that we can in this generation. Members of the Alliance also made a foundational pledge to help open the door for the peaceful return of the Kanien'kehá:ka to their ancestral homelands – and to work together to protect the forest, waters, farms, wildlife and peoples of Skóhare and the Schoharie Creek bioregion.