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Museum of the Oregon Territory

Oregon City,

Community Focus: Americas, Indigenous American, North American

The Museum of the Oregon Territory is a regional treasure that overlooks Willamette Falls. Come explore the history behind the land and see how Willamette Falls transformed the region’s industry. MOOT is home to Native American petroglyphs and artifacts, the original 1850 Oregon City and 1851 San Francisco plat maps, a piece of the Willamette Meteorite, original belongings of Clackamas County’s earliest resettlers, as well as thousands of other objects, photographs, and documents that reflect Clackamas County history and culture.

MVHS Mariachi & Folklorico

Mount Vernon,

Community Focus: Latina/e/o/x, Mexican

Mount Vernon School District Mariachi & Folklorico is the biggest Mariachi Program in western Washington with over 100 students. We believe that Mariachi music will live forever in our community through our performances. MV Mariachi has performed at dozens of events and festivals all over Washington State. Mount Vernon School District recently hired Director Ramon Rivera who has expanded the program to include two Folklorico Classes and four high school Mariachi Classes. We are excited to see how our program continues to expand!

Na’ah Illahee Fund

Seattle,

Community Focus: Gender, Indigenous American
Women

We are an Indigenous women-led organization dedicated to the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities. Through grantmaking, capacity-building and community-based intergenerational programming, we seek transformative change by supporting culturally grounded leadership and organizing. Focused on Indigenous Ecology, Food Sovereignty, and Wise Action, we work to advance climate and gender justice, while creating healthy pathways towards self-determination and movement-building.

Nakani Native Program

Seattle,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native

Nakani Native Program builds, strengthens leadership, organizational capacity in our Native community. We provide social, political support to Native Americans in order to achieve racial equity and environmental justice.

NANA

Kotzebue,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native, NANA Regional Corporation

Founded in 1972, NANA is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) that exists to improve the quality of life for our more than 14,500 shareholders.

Natalie Ball

Portland,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

Natalie Ball makes art as proposals of refusal to complicate an easily affirmed and a consumed narrative without absolutes.

National Association of Minority Contractors (NAMC) Oregon

Portland,

Community Focus: BIPOC, Latina/e/o/x

NAMC Oregon is a nonprofit trade association founded in 1969, to address the needs and concerns of minority contractors. NAMC-OR focuses on construction industry issues common to Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other communities of color in construction.

National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)

Washington,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native

Founded in 1944, NCAI is the oldest, largest & most representative AI/AN org in the U.S.

National Foundation for Danish America (NFDA) – Danish Brotherhood Lodge #29

Wilmette,

Community Focus: Americas, North American, Northern European
Danish, Men

Danish Brotherhood Lodge #29 based in Seattle is a member of the National Foundation for Danish America (NFDA), which was formed in 2019 with the goal of strengthening cooperation among Danish American organizations and ties between Denmark (or Danish Culture) AND persons who have a special interest or relationship with Denmark. There are approximately 1.5 Million Americans who claim at least partial Danish heritage, and call themselves “Danish Americans”. We aim to provide opportunities for Danish Americans and their clubs and organizations to network, coordinate, share and collaborate in order to preserve and promote Danish culture and heritage in America.

National Indian Health Board (NIHB)

Washington,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) represents Tribal governments—both those that operate their own health care delivery systems through contracting and compacting, and those receiving health care directly from the Indian Health Service (IHS).

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