The Mount Hope Commission believes that a just, fair, and loving community is achieved by understanding our history and how it has shaped who we are today. By building an understanding that binds us together, we can acknowledge and reconcile our past, and mindfully build our future.
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Mission
The mission of the Mount Hope Commission is to facilitate community healing and reconciliation. This will be achieved through uncovering, sharing, and discussing the history of the indigenous peoples who first inhabited the land that is now the Town of Cheverly, the story of Mount Hope and the individuals who were enslaved there, and the stories of those impacted by the Town’s segregationist history and discriminatory practices. Through understanding and addressing past and present pain, reconciliation can begin, and the hope of an inclusive community that embraces all Cheverly residents can be realized.
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Vision
The Mount Hope Commission envisions a community in which all are embraced, and no one experiences discrimination. Our vision is a community that is hopeful and lifts itself and others up by providing fair and equal opportunities for engagement. We hope that our realized vision will inspire other communities to take this same journey.
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Values
The Mount Hope Commission seeks to be inclusive, truthful, respectful, accepting, forgiving, loving, trusting, justice-seeking, kind, peaceful, compassionate, non-violent, and anti-racist because this is what we value.