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Raíces de Bienestar

Hillsboro,

Community Focus: Latina/e/o/x

A new model to support mental health and wellness. For the Latinx community by the Latinx community. Based in Oregon.

Reboot Representation

Seattle,

Washington

Community Focus: Black American, Indigenous American, Latina/e/o/x

A coalition of tech companies committed to doubling the number of Black, Latina, and Native American women receiving computing degrees by 2025.

Red Eagle Soaring

Seattle,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

Red Eagle Soaring (RES) is a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) serving urban Native American youth ages 10-19 with free programming integrating contemporary theatre and traditional Native performing arts. RES engages Native youth and their families in critical discussions about the issues affecting their lives and provides a cultural peer group in which to build confidence, identity, and community.

Red Road to DC

Seattle,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

This Summer, the House of Tears Carvers of the Lummi Nation will transport a 25-foot totem pole from Washington State to Washington DC, stopping for ceremony and live-streamed events with communities leading efforts to protect sacred places under threat from resource extraction and industrial development.

Ricardo Ruiz

Seattle,

Community Focus: Americas, Mexican, North American

Rising Hearts

Harrisonburg,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

Rising Hearts is an Indigenous Led grassroots organization committed to the heart work in elevating Indigenous voices, promoting, and supporting intersectional collaborative efforts across all forms of movements in cultivating community with the goals of racial, social, climate, and economic justice. Out primary focuses are to inform, elevate, mobilize, and organize through movement, strategic and targeted advocacy and programming, establishing collaborative kinships to help create a better, safer future, and environment for all relatives who inhabit this planet – past, present, and future.

Roger Fernandes

Portland,

Community Focus: Indigenous American

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. was founded in 1993 by the late Martin High Bear, Lakota medicine man and spiritual leader, and Rose High Bear, Deg Hit’an Dine (Alaskan Athabascan). Wisdom of the Elders office is located in Portland, Oregon.

Roots and Beats Project

Portland,

Community Focus: BIPOC, For All, Indigenous American, Multicultural
Hispanic

Roots and Beats Project fosters positive youth development through media arts education and cultural engagement. Our curriculum merges tradition and technology to weave culturally-rooted digital storytelling focusing on immigrant, refugee and ethnic diaspora experience. We work in partnership with local nonprofits and schools to provide music and multimedia workshops at no cost to underserved youth ages 12-21 years old. We strive to make our curriculum culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and bilingual, aspects crucial to meet our students where they are. Our work is informed by a belief that when young people feel safe expressing themselves creatively, embracing cultural diversity, and bonding with adult mentors, it unlocks great potential for the development of wide-ranging skills and competencies towards becoming future community leaders.

Sakari Farms

Bend,

Community Focus: Indigenous American
Alaska Native

Sakari Farms is located in Tumalo, just West of Bend, the heart of Central Oregon. Our farm also houses a unique PNW Tribal Seed Bank dedicated to our regional and national Tribal Members only. Sakari Farms is unique in that we grow Native American First Foods, offer on-farm Technical Assistance through our on-farm classes, and implement research based tribal seed production, contract and wholesale growing. Our current growing creations consist of specialty tribal peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, herbs and one of a kind native flowers. Our farm IMPLEMENTS organic and biodynamic growing PRACTICES and holds the Intertribal Agricultural Council’s “Made by Native American” patent certification, we also hold an IAC Regenation (Regenerative Agricultural)certification.

Salem Keizer Coalition for Equality

Salem,

Community Focus: For All, Latina/e/o/x
Hispanic

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