WESTERN CAUCUS FOUNDATION Information

Founded in 2013, The Western Caucus Foundation (WCF), a non-profit 501(C3), is a cultural exchange organization committed to educating public policy makers and communicating with the public in an effort to enhance, sustain, and preserve the West's dynamic and unique culture. The Western Caucus Foundation is committed to advancing the following key principles: protecting private property, strengthening local control, promoting economic growth, and increasing energy independence. The Foundation provides support, education, and networking opportunities to advance the public policies important to the West, and offers stakeholders a non-partisan and non-political organization to facilitate discussion of Western issues. We disseminate information to people in Washington, and across the country, about how the West is a real place where people live, work and play, and that it is not an abstraction or an idyllic playground. The Foundation also educates Congressional staff and others on public policy issues unique to the West via a robust agenda of meetings, conferences, and programs to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information to address critical issues facing the West and rural America. In particular, we highlight how decisions made in Congress can have significant consequences in the West that most of the country never sees. It is the policy of the Western Caucus Foundation to NOT advocate for or support either directly or indirectly, the election or defeat of any candidate for public or political office. The Western Caucus Foundation shall not donate or contribute to any candidate's campaign, nor will it participate in political fundraising events or otherwise solicit political contributions, or endorse or oppose a candidate.