The “ten commitments” were formulated originally in a proposal by UAEDI, Cross County and St. Francis County to create the “Crossroads Coalition” partnership. In effect, these commitments constituted the essential core values and elements of the working relationship that this group believed were necessary for its future success in promoting broad-based development and breakthrough solutions in the Arkansas Delta.

The commitments serve as an excellent example for other UAEDI endeavors. Thus, the original wording has been changed slightly to reflect the working relationship that UAEDI seeks with and among the people of our communities and counties in Arkansas.

1. We will seek results that involve and collectively benefit all socioeconomic levels in the communities and counties of Arkansas and work towards racial harmony.
   
2. Our strategic initiatives will embrace accountability, measurability, and sustainability.
   
3. Our communities and counties will serve as a models and laboratories where breakthrough solutions will be tested and then extended, expanded and replicated, as appropriate, as rapidly as possible throughout Arkansas.
   
4. We will encourage the leveraging of resources and the nurturing of long-term partnerships, using currently existing programs and capabilities if at all possible.
   
5. We are committed to a long term broad-based development effort but will measure the short term impacts of our efforts.
   
6. We will always be open, receptive and responsive to changes in opportunities that may lead to more effective and efficient strategies, tactics and resource allocations.
   
7. We will embrace the concept that that broad-based development has four components (economic, community, educational and leadership) that are synergistically interrelated and essential and need to be addressed simultaneously.
   
8. Our communities and counties will build upon existing strategic assets, both inside and outside of our geographic boundaries.
   
9. We will seek to build trust and mutual respect among all segments of people within our communities, counties and partnerships.
   
10. Our communities and counties will seek to identify and implement breakthrough solutions in the context of broad-based development.