We believe everyday Wyomingites should have a say in the decisions that shape our lives.
Through civic education, leadership development and collective action, we coach folks on how to speak up, get involved, and work together to improve our communities.
It’s up to us to build a better Wyoming.
How We Build a Better Wyoming
Civic Education
We teach folks how the issues that impact their lives are connected to politics and government, and how to engage in the processes that shape them.
Collective Action
We organize people to take action together to publicly demonstrate power and let decisionmakers know where the people of Wyoming stand.
Leadership Development
We train everyday people with the skills and knowledge to organize their own communities.
2026 Wyo. Legislature Grassroots Accountability Campaign
Check out Better Wyoming’s 2026 Grassroots Accountability Reports, which track how your own local legislators voted during the budget session on important issues impacting healthcare, education, community funding and more.
Learn whether their votes represent your values on issues that impact your community.
The Grassroots Institute
What We’re Up To
Faith Leaders Speak Out For a Compassionate Budget
Budgets aren’t just abstract numbers and endless, confusing line-items. They’re moral documents. That’s what a group of two dozen Wyoming faith leaders said, when they gathered at the State Capitol on February 12th.
Back-to-back Better Wyo. events in Jackson Jan. 27 & 28
Better Wyo. will co-host a film screening and panel discussion on book banning in Wyoming as well as an advocacy training focused on using narrative to build power.
Taking action and building community support for school mental health funding
Better Wyoming volunteers are mobilizing across the state to demand full funding for public schools as the recalibration process unfolds. From crowds packing interim meetings to dozens of letters and op-eds, Wyoming citizens are showing up, speaking out and holding the Legislature accountable to its constitutional duty to support teachers, counselors and safe schools.
Reporting and Commentary
Wyoming edges toward banning abortion
A bill moving through the Wyoming Legislature would completely ban abortion in the state—even in cases of rape and incest—in the event that the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Another would immediately outlaw “abortion pills,” which can be more readily accessible for Wyoming women unable to travel great distances to end a pregnancy.
The progress of these bills demonstrates a radical shift over the past five years in the Legislature’s position on reproductive rights.
Wyoming Senate scraps “redistricting” plan in a reckless power play
County clerks, legislators, local officials, and members of the public worked for months to reach consensus on a new statewide election district map. On Tuesday, the Wyoming Senate voted to throw that plan in the trash and start from scratch with just seven days remaining in the 2022 legislative session.
The Senate’s move is a last-ditch attempt to give outsized influence to rural areas that have lost residents over the past decade, while under-representing more urban areas like Cheyenne that have experienced population growth.
Procedural hurdles and political calculations help trip up Wyoming Medicaid expansion
Rules governing the legislature’s “budget session” and lawmakers wary of right-wing primaries helped thwart efforts to pass Medicaid expansion this year. Meanwhile, grassroots advocates vow to mobilize around the 2022 elections.