Company Profile
Western Organization of Resource Councils
Company Overview
WORC’s mission is to advance the vision of a democratic, sustainable, and just society through community action. WORC is committed to building sustainable environmental and economic communities that balance economic growth with the health of people and stewardship of their land, water, and air resources.
Today, WORC has 18,435 members in 37 chapters in our seven-state region, including membership from most of our states’ Reservations. WORC helps share resources and experience throughout our groups and takes their unified vision of rural vitality to Washington DC. This grassroots power and representation has helped protect rural communities and families for the last 40 years. Our work has brought about big wins to keep family farms operating despite the growth of industrialized agriculture; minimizing the impacts of under-regulated oil and gas development, and stopping the destruction of farm and ranch land through coal mining.
Company History
Formed in 1979, Western Organization of Resource Councils is a network of eight grassroots organizations (located in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Montana’s seven Native American reservations, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming) with 18,435 members and 39 local chapters. WORC helps its member groups succeed by providing training, coordinating issue work and advancing the vision of a democratic, sustainable and just society through community action. Over the last forty years, WORC has built a grassroots base of concerned citizens working for stewardship and conservation of the land, water, and energy resources; family farms and sustainable agriculture; and civic engagement.
WORC and its member groups have been at the forefront of shaping policies at the local, state, and national level since the 1970s. WORC’s staff has decades of experience in community organizing. We have a strong record of building community-based groups. Hundreds of our members are strong, skilled leaders. We have advanced members from local issues to state and national campaigns and have helped them prepare to participate on boards and commissions and other leadership positions in their communities.