Idaho Organization of Resource Councils (IORC)
Mission Statement
The Idaho Organization of Resource Councils empowers people to improve the well-being of their communities, sustain family farms and ranches, transform local food systems, promote clean energy, and advocate for responsible stewardship of Idaho’s natural resources.
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Objectives 2023
Support the Farmworker Justice Campaign working to build power within Soutwest Idaho farmworker communities to protect workers’ health and safety due to extreme working conditions in SW Idaho, often worsened by climate change. Continue to diversify the base of IORC.
Objectives 2020
Continue organizing a multi-issue, predominantly Latinx chapter of IORC in Canyon County. Prior funding supported an assessment in the areal that led to an organizing committee. They have finalized most organizational documents and are working on planning a public kickoff. FFI funds would help officially kick of the chapter, bring on new leaders, recruit members, and support issue campaign work.
Objectives 2019
Continue organizing a multi-issue, predominantly Latinx chapter of IORC in Canyon County. Prior funding supported an assessment in the areal that led to an organizing committee. They have finalized most organizational documents and are working on planning a public kickoff. FFI funds would help officially kick of the chapter, bring on new leaders, recruit members, and support issue campaign work.
Objectives 2018
Work to build a local chapter of IORC in Canyon County that is Latinx and low-income focused. The chapter will concentrate on issues surrounding immigration, food access and affordability, housing, and environmental justice. IORC will found the local chapter and recruit an organizing committee of local community members.
Objectives 2014
Continue building a new rural-focused, multi-issue, membership based and democratically-controlled citizen’s organization in Idaho that will focus on sustainable wealth generation through Homegrown Prosperity.
Objectives 2013
The Idaho Organization of Resource Councils is a new, rural-focused, multi-issue membership-based, democratically controlled citizens’ organization in Idaho that will focus on issues of poverty, sustainable wealth generation and responsible energy development. Their current focus is on increasing public awareness about the impacts of fracking on people and the environment.
