My Nonprofit Reviews

As a Montana native, I’ve been enjoying Montana’s natural beauty and bounty all my life. As I’ve enjoyed all that nature has to offer here, I’ve strived to be a good steward by working to preserve the quality of our land, water and air for my children and grandchildren to enjoy, as I have enjoyed. The organization that best helps me to do this is Northern Plains Resource Council. Its mission and values are totally in-sync with mine own.

I learned about Northern Plains Resource Council (NPRC) through a local state affiliate, Stillwater Protective Association (SPA). For over 40 years, NPRC has been helping Montanans help themselves. For my local affiliate, it worked tirelessly with us and another affiliate to hammer out a ground breaking Good Neighbor Agreement with Stillwater Mining Company. This agreement is legally binding and has proven the test of time for over 10 years now in ensuring the quality of our rural environment.

I personally have been volunteering my time and energy to this organization for 6 years now and have experienced its highly competent and effective staff’s support in helping members achieve results on many fronts, including leading the charge in trying to ensure big coal, gas and oil companies “do it right” in our backyards, that our state agencies follow and enforce their rules and policies, and that farmers and ranchers get a fair shake whenever Eminent Domain is invoked, to name a few goals.

This is also an organization that takes the time to define its mission, set goals and develop on-going 5 year plans. In one of these plans, it set a goal to own its own building. Wow, was this ever achieved – talk about walking the talk! Today we have Home of the Range (HOTR). To achieve this goal, NPRC purchased an uninsulated, old concrete block grocery store with few windows. The building was renovated to house energy-efficient, daylit offices and along the way earned an Energy Star Certified and U.S. Green Building Council LEED-NC, v.2/v.2.1—Level of Platinum! What a tremendous accomplishment and one we are all very proud of achieving.

It is important to me to be involved with an organization with integrity, and one that is achieving results and growing its membership. Northern Plains Resource Council is the real deal!

Lana Sangmeister
NPRC Board Member
SPA Member

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