Become a Member
Why Join WE-CAN?
As a member of the West Coast Climate Action Network, your organization becomes part of a dynamic and growing network of climate groups working together to strengthen BC’s climate movement. Membership gives you access to tools, visibility, and collaborative opportunities that can amplify your work, connect you with allies, and help drive collective impact across the province.
Membership Benefits
When your organization joins the West Coast Climate Action Network, you can access a growing suite of tools and resources designed to support collaboration, visibility, and climate impact across British Columbia.
Organization Directory Listing
Your organization will be featured in our online Member Directory, a searchable database where nearly 300 climate organizations across BC connect, share resources, and find potential collaborators. The directory increases your group’s visibility and makes it easier for others to reach out for partnerships, events, or shared initiatives.
Events Calendar Promotion
Got an upcoming event? Members can upload their climate-related events directly to our public BC Climate Events Calendar. This calendar is promoted through our weekly Roundup and website, helping you boost attendance and reach new audiences beyond your usual networks.
Voting Rights at our AGM
Every member organization receives one vote at WE-CAN’s Annual General Meeting. Your voice helps shape the strategic direction of the network and ensures that grassroots and regional perspectives are represented in our decision-making.
Access to the Document Library
Member organizations can upload, and access shared resources in our Document Library. This is a space to share reports, toolkits, campaign materials, templates, and more—so we can all learn from and build on each other’s work.
Networking & Discussion Forums (Coming Soon)
We’re building interactive online forums exclusively for WE-CAN members to connect, ask questions, collaborate on projects and initiatives, share advice and resources, and build community across regions and sectors. These forums will offer dedicated spaces for campaign collaboration, networking, education opportunities, working groups, and discussion.
Our Three Core Promises
At the West Coast Climate Action Network, we are committed to empowering and supporting
our member organizations through three core promises.
AGM Voting and Board Elections
As a member organization, you will be entitled to choose someone to vote at our Annual General Meetings and in elections to the Board.
We Respect your Organization’s Unique Identity and Reputation.
Whenever WE-CAN advances a new climate policy, campaign or initiative, we will do so within the principles of our existing Position Statements, and with this proviso: WE-CAN has more than 200 member organizations, all of whose members agreed that the global climate emergency poses an existential threat to all nature and all humanity and that we need rapid and urgent action to tackle its various causes. While most WE-CAN members will support most of the climate policies, campaigns, and initiatives that WE-CAN undertakes or endorses, we value the diversity of our membership, and we acknowledge that some members may differ on the details of a particular policy or campaign or the way it is communicated or executed.
Voluntary Membership Fees
WE-CAN has a voluntary annual membership fee proportional to your group’s annual budget:
- If your group’s annual budget is under $1,000, WE-CAN’s suggested Membership fee is $20
- If your group’s annual budget is under $2,500, WE-CAN’s suggested Membership fee is $40
- If your group’s annual budget is under $5,000, WE-CAN’s suggested Membership fee is $100
- If your group’s annual budget is under $20,000, WE-CAN’s suggested Membership fee is $150
- If your group’s annual budget is over $20,000, WE-CAN’s suggested Membership fee is $250
These fees are voluntary and are not required for groups to be a WE-CAN member.
WE-CAN Membership
Join the West Coast Climate Action Network of nearly 300 organizations dedicated to tackling the climate crisis. Together, we can amplify our impact and drive meaningful change for a sustainable future.
We invite your organization or initiative to become a Member of the West Coast Climate Action Network.
The global climate emergency is relentlessly urgent. We want everyone to understand that this is an emergency. We want our decision-makers to show leadership every bit as determined as Canada’s was during World War II.
It is very easy to become a WE-CAN Member. Any group, organization or business with three or more members whose leaders or Board agrees with our Members’ Agreement can apply to become a Member. In becoming a Member of the West Coast Climate Action Network, our organization agrees that the global climate emergency poses an existential threat to all nature and all humanity, and that we need rapid and urgent action to tackle its various causes.
What We Do
We support our member organizations in the following ways
- By Amplifying: we promote the calls to action of our member organizations in our weekly Climate News Roundup and on our social media.
- By Coordinating: we work together to achieve more effective climate action.
- By Connecting: we link groups and organizations working on similar initiatives to be stronger together.
- By Informing: our website provides information about your organization and encourages people to get involved. It also has information about the best climate solutions and learning and training resources.
