HOW WE WORK

CREATING CHANGE THROUGH PEOPLE AND PLACE

Meaningful change occurs through collaboration and effective work requires structure, organization, and skilled individuals. WRCD invests in people and emphasizes shared goals to bring place-based projects to life.

OUR APPROACH

To meet the vision and goals of the WRCD, we utilize a framework to build local capacity and leadership.  This model provides local organizations and communities with the opportunities to define how they want to address natural resource issues and take action to create a lasting impact in place.

Discover

We work to understand local context uncovering local needs, assets, challenges, and resources.

Define

We collaborate with partners to evaluate community readiness for change and explore innovative approaches.

Develop

We help to develop tools and resources to support organizations and individuals leading local initiatives.

Deliver

We work with organizations and individuals leading the work in their place to help co-create tailored programs and projects to address specific community needs. 

CORE VALUES

Collaboration

We are a partner.
We dig deep to understand partner needs, challenges, and vision. We approach our work with a focus on the relationships, reciprocity, and thoughtfulness that we would want for ourselves.

Community

We embrace all voices, perspectives, and lived experiences.​
Community-based organizations, our partners, our team, and the environment are our stakeholders. We consider them in every decision.

Access

We create opportunities
We believe all communities should have equal access to resources to meet their needs, defined by their values and priorities.

Accountability​

We honor COMMITMENTS.​
We hold ourselves responsible for decisions and actions, and view mistakes as opportunities for growth.

Authenticity

We value openness and sincerity.
We hold transparency, honesty, and vulnerability as a standard of integrity in our work and interactions with others.

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