Stories of Impact: Building Community Capacity in the Teton Region in 2025
Members of the Snake River Headwaters Watershed Group on Snake River
In 2025, the Teton Region Initiative continued to show up in service of emergent impact opportunities—designing and supporting solutions driven by community need and grounded in local leadership. Much of this work happened quietly and behind the scenes, as we helped partners navigate complexity while staying focused on mission, relationships, and place. By facilitating meetings and work sessions, guiding evolving strategies, building and strengthening governance structures, crafting and stewarding philanthropic and public funding requests, and providing coordination that kept leaders focused on substance rather than logistics, LegacyWorks strengthened the collaborative infrastructure that makes long-term, community-led impact possible.
This approach came to life in powerful ways through the Snake River Headwaters Watershed Group and the Teton Community Wellbeing Dashboard. In both efforts, partners built on their own deep expertise and commitment—refining shared priorities, strengthening governance, and advancing tools that support informed decision-making. Watershed leaders transformed distributed data and diverse perspectives into coordinated action, while Dashboard partners expanded a trusted platform that now anchors regional conversations about housing, health, education, and emergency preparedness. Along the way, targeted communications and fundraising support helped clarify messaging, elevate visibility, and strengthen strategies to attract sustained investment—amplifying the leadership already present in the community.
Similar momentum was evident within the Teton Basin Water Users Association and the Teton Climate Action Partnership, where partners stepped into increasingly influential roles in shaping policy, advancing shared data tools, and building durable coalitions. Across all of this work, LegacyWorks’ role has been to help connect collaborative governance, impact finance, data and storytelling, adaptive strategy, and authentic community engagement—so that strong local initiatives can grow into lasting, landscape-scale solutions. The ultimate impact is not any single project, but a region better equipped to meet intersecting challenges of water, climate, community wellbeing, and biodiversity. Together, partners are building the resilience and capacity needed to tip the scales toward transformative, long-term change—at the pace and scale this moment demands. Read the Stories of Impact report to learn more about Teton Regional Initiative accomplishments in 2025.