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
Better Wyoming’s ‘Voter 101’ town hall talks about low voter turnout and why your vote matters
Better Wyoming held a voter information town hall in Casper to kick off this election season. This town hall provided attendees with information on how to register to vote, what you can bring with you to the polls, and more information to help folks to feel confident to cast a ballot. More importantly, this town hall discussed voter turnout and highlighted why every person’s vote matters in local and statewide elections.
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.
Reporting and Commentary
A user’s guide to the bizarre, online 2021 Wyoming legislative session
This year’s online legislative session provides unprecedented access for Wyoming residents to watch and participate. Find out what’s going on next week and how you can take part (virtually!) in the legislative process.
NIMBY landowner campaign inflames anti-renewables attitudes to block Wyoming wind development
A proposed wind farm would bring tens of millions of dollars in revenue for Albany County and Wyoming schools, along with good jobs. But hilltop landowners worried about their backyard views have launched a campaign to stop it, trafficking in Wyomingites’ anxieties about the global transition to carbon-free energy.
Healthcare access grows harder for thousands of newly uninsured Wyomingites
Roughly 6,000 people have lost their health insurance in Wyoming during the COVID-19 pandemic. But state lawmakers continue to block federal funds that would cover insurance costs for low-income residents, while they gut state Department of Health funding for community health services.