Fiscal Year 2025–2026
A Message from Operation New Earth
The past year has been a period of growth, renewed purpose, and community engagement for Operation New Earth.
Our organization was founded on a simple but powerful idea: people can work together to create a better future for one another and for the Earth.
In an increasingly divided and rapidly changing world, Operation New Earth seeks to encourage cooperation, creativity, environmental responsibility, community development, and practical action. We believe that meaningful change begins locally, with people who care about their communities and are willing to contribute their time, talents, ideas, and resources.
During the past year, Operation New Earth continued developing its presence in Coulterville and the surrounding Yosemite and Mariposa County region while supporting projects designed to bring people together around community, culture, the arts, history, environmental awareness, and a more sustainable future.
Our work is grounded in the belief that a better world is something we build together.
Our Mission
Operation New Earth’s mission is to promote positive social and environmental change by encouraging people to work together for the benefit of their communities, the natural world, and future generations.
We seek to:
Encourage environmental stewardship and protection of the natural world.
Promote community cooperation and civic engagement.
Support arts, culture, creativity, and education.
Preserve and share local history and heritage.
Encourage sustainable approaches to community development.
Provide opportunities for people to contribute their talents and ideas.
Develop programs and partnerships that address important community and global challenges.
Inspire people to move from concern about the future toward constructive action.
The Year in Review
Building Community
Operation New Earth continued its commitment to community-based projects in Coulterville and Mariposa County.
The organization recognizes that historic rural communities face both challenges and opportunities. Economic development, preservation of historic character, support for local artists and craftspeople, environmental protection, and community participation can work together rather than existing as competing goals.
Throughout the year, Operation New Earth worked to encourage projects and activities that bring residents, visitors, artists, historians, musicians, entrepreneurs, and community organizations together.
Our efforts are intended to help create a community where people can live, work, create, learn, and participate in a meaningful future.
Arts, Culture and Creativity
One of Operation New Earth’s continuing priorities is the belief that arts and creativity are essential components of healthy communities.
During the year, the organization supported efforts to strengthen the arts and cultural identity of Coulterville and the surrounding region.
The development of the Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center represented an important step toward creating additional opportunities for artists and craftspeople while giving residents and visitors another reason to explore Coulterville’s historic Main Street.
Additionally, this space is now available as a venue for local musicians to perform and crafting groups to meet and collaborate.
The organization believes that supporting local artists is not simply an economic activity. It is also a way of preserving community identity, encouraging creativity, and giving people opportunities to tell the stories of their communities through art.
Operation New Earth looks forward to expanding these efforts in the coming year.
Preserving Local History
Coulterville is rich in history. It features early Miwok sites, Mexican rancherias, and a massive Gold Rush boom. Today, tourism drives its economy, as the town sits just 31 miles from the gates of Yosemite National Park.
Plans include working with the Northern Mariposa County History Center, Odd Fellows, Coulterville Community Club, Mariposa Arts Council, Sierra Foothill Conservancy, CalFire and the local VFW and using the platform the
radio station as a space to collect local stories and digitize oral traditions.
Operation New Earth believes historic preservation is most successful when history remains connected to the living community.
Our work therefore emphasizes the importance of:
Historic buildings and districts.
Local stories and oral histories.
Museums and historical collections.
Artists and craftspeople.
Community celebrations.
Music and cultural traditions.
Education about the region’s past.
Preserving history does not mean freezing a community in time. It means understanding where we came from while building a thoughtful future.
Environmental Stewardship
The name Operation New Earth reflects our belief that humanity has a responsibility to protect the planet upon which all communities depend.
Climate change, wildfire, drought, water shortages, biodiversity loss, pollution, and the degradation of natural ecosystems present challenges that cannot be solved by governments alone.
Operation New Earth seeks to encourage greater public understanding of these issues while promoting constructive, community-based solutions.
The Yosemite and Sierra Nevada region provides a particularly powerful setting for this work. The forests, rivers, mountains, wildlife, and historic landscapes surrounding our communities are natural resources that belong not only to the present generation but also to generations yet to come.
Our environmental work includes covering stories about education, stewardship, responsible development, conservation and cooperation, including altruism.
Plans include interviewing sources with the Sierra Foothill Conservancy about their restoration of Bean Creek in Greeley Hill; CalFire about wildfire mitigation before disaster strikes; the Northern Mariposa County History Center has a display on Coulterville burning down three times in the 1800’s due to human negligence. Stories might include that, as well as a story on Irene Vasquez, Cultural Ecologist and Miwok tribal member, who is working with Yosemite rangers to do controlled burns within Yosemite Valley, a once commonplace practice before their people were forced onto reservations in Fresno.
Connecting Community and the Wider World
Operation New Earth recognizes that local communities are connected to larger national and global challenges.
Issues such as climate change, technological change, economic inequality, environmental degradation, and the future of democracy affect people everywhere.
At the same time, solutions frequently begin at the local level.
A community that learns how to cooperate, care for its natural environment, preserve its history, support its artists, and help its neighbors can become an example of what is possible elsewhere.
Operation New Earth seeks to be part of that larger conversation.
Community Partnerships
Our work depends upon cooperation.
During the past year, Operation New Earth worked alongside community members, artists, musicians, historians, nonprofit organizations, local businesses, volunteers, and other partners.
We are grateful to everyone who contributed ideas, labor, financial support, creative work, professional expertise, or simply encouragement.
No nonprofit succeeds alone.
The strength of Operation New Earth comes from the people who believe that their communities are worth investing in.
Volunteers
Volunteers are among Operation New Earth’s most important resources.
Volunteers contribute in ways that cannot always be measured financially. They help organize activities, maintain facilities, promote programs, assist artists and community members, conduct research, provide technical expertise, and participate in community projects.
During fiscal year 2025–2026, Operation New Earth benefited from the contributions of volunteers and supporters throughout the community.
We extend our sincere thanks to everyone who gave their time.
Financial Overview
Operation New Earth is committed to responsible stewardship of the resources entrusted to the organization.
Revenue
Source FY 2025–2026
Contributions and Donations
Operation New Earth Grants $ 0.00
Youth Education Program
($3,000/mo.) $36,000
YosemiteRadio.Org – GoFundMe $2,300.00
Advertising Revenue $ 850.00
Sticker Sales $ 50.00
Total Revenue $3,200.00
Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center
Tax Deductible Sales
(June, July and August) $1,000.00
Total Revenue $40,200.00
Expenses
Category FY 2025–2026
Web hosting and domain names $350.00
MyRadioStream (5.79/mo.) $ 50.00
Microsoft (12.50/mo.) $100.00
WiFi (Conifer 50/mo.) $600.00
Gazzolo Building Power $150.00
Gazzolo/Arts Building
Water/Sewer $1572.00
Yosemite Arts and Crafts Center $1,000.00
Administrative Expenses $ 0.00
Total Expenses $2572.00
Financial Position
Beginning Net Assets
Operation New Earth $2,300.00
Yosemite Radio $500.00
Ending Net Assets
Youth Education $500.00
Operation New Earth $1,300.00
Yosemite Radio $500.00
Total Net Assets $2,800.00
Change in Net Assets: $ -1,000.00
Looking Ahead: 2026–2027
The coming year presents an opportunity to build upon the foundation established during the past year.
Operation New Earth plans to continue working toward:
- Stronger Community Programs
Developing activities that bring residents and visitors together and encourage greater community participation.
- Expansion of Arts and Cultural Activities
Supporting artists, craftspeople, musicians, historians, and cultural organizations.
- Environmental News and Information
Increasing public awareness of climate change, conservation, wildfire, water, forests, and other environmental issues affecting the Sierra Nevada and the planet.
- Historic Preservation
Helping preserve the stories, buildings, traditions, and cultural heritage that make Coulterville and the surrounding region unique.
- Partnerships
Building relationships with nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, businesses, artists, environmental organizations, and community groups.
- Organizational Development
Strengthening Operation New Earth’s financial, administrative, fundraising, volunteer, and program infrastructure so the organization can serve the community more effectively.
A Vision for the Future
Operation New Earth was created around the belief that the future does not have to be something that simply happens to us.
We can participate in creating it.
We can choose cooperation over division.
We can choose stewardship over exploitation.
We can choose creativity over apathy.
We can choose community over isolation.
We can choose altruism over selfishness.
And we can choose to leave the Earth and our communities better than we found them.
The challenges facing humanity are enormous. But so is the capacity of ordinary people to accomplish extraordinary things when they work together.
From our home in the historic community of Coulterville, California, Operation New Earth intends to keep working toward that future.
A new Earth begins with what we do today.
Thank You
Operation New Earth gratefully acknowledges everyone who supported our work during fiscal year 2025–2026.
To our volunteers, donors, artists, community members, partners, friends, and supporters:
Thank you for believing that positive change is possible—and for helping make it happen.
Contact
Operation New Earth
5016 Main Street
P.O. Box 166
Coulterville, California 95311
Phone: 205.960.3639
Website: YosemiteRadio.Org
Annual Report Information
Reporting Period: July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026
Organization: Operation New Earth
Location: Coulterville, California
Prepared by:
Glynn Wilson
Station Manager/News Director
Yosemite Radio
KNHA 100.9 FM
Operation New Earth
5016 Main Street
P.O. Box 166
Coulterville, CA 95311
https://yosemiteradio.org/
[email protected]
205.960.3639