Chapter Guidelines
Basic Requirements
- To create a Food Resource List for milk products from pasture-fed livestock (preferably raw), pasture-fed eggs and livestock and properly produced whole foods in the local area.
- Provide a contact phone number to be listed on the website and in our quarterly magazine.
- Provide Weston A. Price Foundation materials to inquirers, and make available as appropriate in local health food stores, libraries and service organizations and to health care practitioners.
- Provide an annual chapter report as provided by the WAPF office.
- Be a member in good standing in the Weston A. Price Foundation.
- Sign a contract on the use of the Weston A. Price Foundation name and trademark.
- Read the Chapter Handbook.
Optional Activities
- Maintain a list of local health care practitioners who support the Foundation’s teachings regarding diet and health
- Represent the Foundation at local conferences and fairs.
- Organize social gatherings, such as support groups and pot luck dinners, to present the Weston A. Price Foundation philosophy and materials.
- Present seminars, workshops and/or cooking classes featuring speakers from the Weston A. Price Foundation, or local speakers who support the Foundation’s goals and philosophy.
- Represent the Weston A. Price Foundation philosophy and goals to local media governments and lawmakers.
- Lobby for the elimination of laws that restrict access to locally produced and processed food (such as pasteurization laws) or that limit health freedoms in any way.
- Publish a simple newsletter containing information and announcements for local chapter members
- Work with schools to provide curriculum materials and training for classes in human development and home economics.
- Help the Foundation find outlets for the sale of its quarterly magazine.
Local Chapter Application
If you would like to start a local chapter, you can either:
- Download the application, print and sign and mail it to: The Weston A. Price Foundation, PMB 106-380, 4200 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016, or
- Email it to: info@westonaprice.org or
- Fill out the web application by clicking the button below
Additional Resources
Find a Local Chapter | Chapter Resources
Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 16:29
Is there any chance of a chapter being established in Australia?
Edward, I do hope that by this time you have been able to find a chapter in fairly close proximity to you. If not, here is the page listing all of the chapters across Australia:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/find-a-local-chapter-international/#aus
If there is not one convenient to you, please consider starting a new chapter in your area! To do so, you must be a member and be able to provide3 a list of local resources for those who might inquire. Meetings and other events are optional. To learn more about starting a chapter please follow this link:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/local-chapters/start-a-chapter-2/
Is there any established and active local chapter of the Dr. Weston Price Foundation in the Philippines? And how can we contact them? If none, we would like to start one. We have been following the teachings of the foundation for more than a decade already. We would love to share to share it with others as well and contribute to the growth of the movement. Grace and Shalom.
Hello Eric, I do hope that you have already located the Manila chapter, listed here:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/find-a-local-chapter-international/#phi
If not, we do encourage you to start your own local chapter! It is not cumbersome, and only requires that you are a member first, and able to provide a local resource list to share with others; events and such are optional, but certainly encouraged! We help in whatever ways we can. To learn more about starting a chapter, please follow this link:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/local-chapters/start-a-chapter-2/
My name is Dr. Peter Mokaya.
I am the founding CEO and a director of Organic Consumers Alliance(OCA). We subscribe, to large extent, to the principles and values of the WAPF, in the context of advocating for and promoting agro-ecological organic agriculture food production and consumption systems which are in harmony with nature and promote sustainable ecosystems while enhancing healthy lifestyles. More on our website here :http://organicconsumers.co.ke/
We are starting a wAP Chapter in Kenya/East Africa. Details to be uploaded soon on the WAPF website.
Looking forward to sharing evidence based and truthful wellness facts, to enable informed choices on dietary choices leading to Wellness and improved quality of life, locally, regionally and globally, in partnership with other link-minded stakeholders.
Hello Dr. Peter!
I don’t see you listed yet as a chapter, but we would love to have you on board! Starting a local chapter is fairly easy; to learn more, please follow the link below:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/local-chapters/start-a-chapter-2/
Looking forward to having you on board, and best wishes!
May I ask where in Kenya you open the Chapter? Have good friends there… – much into organics!
I would love to start a chapter near my home, but I definitely don’t have the time to manage it myself unless it was a paid job.
Hello Nicole!
We are happy to have your interest, and hope you will find a way to start a chapter in your area (although I don’t know where that is).
We have a large network of volunteer chapter leaders all across the world, sharing the teaching of Dr. Price, while connecting local consumers with resources in their area, especially including their farmer/neighbors producing high quality pastured poultry, raw dairy, meats and vegetables.
Our chapter leaders are dedicated to helping their communities through a growing awareness of health through nutrition and the importance of clean, sustainable food and old-fashioned practices. But we all do so on a strictly voluntary basis; as a membership-driven organization, we simply do not have the funds to pay our chapter leaders for the work that they do. However, we all find that our reward comes not in a monetary form, but in the satisfaction that cones from helping our communities, and our beloved organization. This is simply the best work there is to be done (short of raising healthy families and producing great food)!
To learn more about what is involved with starting your own chapter, follow this link:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/local-chapters/start-a-chapter-2/
To find out if there is already a chapter in your area, please take a look here:
https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/find-local-chapter/
Hello. We currently have a chapter in Delaware. Do we have to submit the resource list? If so, how? Is it mailed or e-mailed to WAPF? Thanks!
A resource list must be submitted before a chapter can be established. email or snail mail is fine. Thank you.
Are there any chairs in Ontario Canada?
Hello I want to know if is possible to have a chapter in Colombia, I would like to do this but I don’t know how to make the list, how to know who produce healthy food in my area?
Hello Maria,
Yes, you certainly can start a chapter in Colombia, we have chapters all over the world! The main thing that is required is the resource list you mentioned. However, this is something that is entirely up to you to create from the resources in your local area. Only you can visit the farms, stores, and producers where you live to know if they are providing high-quality, clean and nutrient-dense foods. Generally, these are guidelines we use to determine these qualities:
Animal products produced on chemical-free pastures, not in buildings nor fed conventional grains.
Milk and eggs the same as above; dairy products also being raw and whole.
Vegetables produced on rich soil without the use of chemicals.
Grains that are chemical free, non-GMO
Unprocessed, natural and chemical-free sugars (raw honey, maple syrup, panella)
Whole, unrefined salt
I hope this helps, but feel free to shoot us more questions if you have them!
Maureen
By not feeding “conventional grains” to the animals, what exactly do you mean? In SE Arizona there is no true Pasture for animals to feed on year ’round, so they must supplement with hay or silage or fodder. The pigs that I know about are also fed barley and/ or sprouted grains. For poultry, some buy organic feed from feed stores, others non-GMO; are those considered acceptable to be on a list for local suppliers? We don’t have a local chapter and I would love to start one, but want to be clear on who I can include.
Would a chapter in Ruston, Louisiana be possible? I see there are 2 chapters down south but when I searched the closest one to me was Texas.
Hello,
Is there a possibility of having two chapters in one region? Our chapter leader is not active and there are many farmers in our area looking to become more involved.
Yes, it is possible depending on size and demand.
I would love to be a Chapter Leader however I can fulfil all basic requirement apart from Health Care Practitioner (obviously holistic )information – Will that be a problem? I do know of a holistic Dentist albeit quite a distance from my home. Any tips as to how I can locate a Health Care Practitioner would be appreciated.
Hello Joann, we would love to have you onboard as a chapter leader! You may go to the link here to read the requirements and sign on. You do not have to list health care practitioners unless you actually know of any in your area. Many of us do search to find providers who are on board with our principles, or who at least will not push vaccines, unnecessary medical treatments, etc. Should you choose to become a chapter leader, please consider also joining our chapter leader email group where we have many informative discussions and provide support for one another.
Many thanks Maureen I have just applied to be a Chapter Leader look forward to receiving information and will donate when I received the same. Yes would wish to join chapter leader email group too.
Thank you again Joann (my legal name is Joan) hope no confusion
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Many thanks Maureen I have just applied to be a Chapter Leader look forward to receiving information and will donate when I received the same. Yes would wish to join chapter leader email group too.
Thank you again Joann (my legal name is Joan) hope no confusion
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