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Organization
Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
African American, WA, American (US)
Location
Seattle, WA
The Loren Miller Bar Association (LMBA) is a Washington statewide organization and the local affiliate of the National Bar Association (NBA), which is the oldest minority bar and the largest organization of African-American attorneys in the United States.
Community Focus
African American, WA, American (US)
Location
Seattle, WA
The current Douglass-Truth Branch was expanded and reopened Oct. 14, 2006. The building follows historic preservation guidelines of the original library, which is a city landmark. It has a grand staircase as well as the Soul Pole, a totem pole depicting African-American history given to the Library in 1972 by what was then called the Rotary Boys Club.
Community Focus
WA, African American, American (US), Black
Location
Tacoma , WA
A group of young minded individuals improving the community and fighting to end police brutality using their voices to raise awareness to causes that affect African Americans.
Community Focus
African, African American, WA, American (US)
Location
Seattle, WA
The Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center celebrates, nurtures presents and preserves African American arts and cultural legacies.
With year round programming that invites the whole community to share in the performing arts, film, music, dance and explore the rich culture of the African Diaspora.
Community Focus
African American, WA, Black
Location
Seattle, WA
It's the NAACP's Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO), a year-long achievement program designed to recruit, stimulate, and encourage high academic and cultural achievement among ​African-American high school students.
Community Focus
African American, WA, American (US), Black
Location
Spokane, WA
The Black Lens is a newspaper, published monthly in Spokane, WA, focusing on news, events, people, issues and information important to the black community.
Community Focus
African American, WA, American (US), Black, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), For All
Location
Seattle, WA
The Black & Tan Hall is a performing arts community space and restaurant opening this year in Seattle's Hillman City District.
Community Focus
African American, WA, Women, Black
Location
, WA
BWiSTEM is dedicated to supporting, promoting, and inspiring Black Women in STEM careers, as well as advocating for equitable and inclusive workplace environments that nurture diverse talent.
Community Focus
African American, WA, Black
Location
Seattle, WA
Community Focus
African, OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Soul 2 Soul is a community-led event celebrating the resilience of the Black community in Portland.
Community Focus
OR, African American, American (US), Black, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)
Location
Portland, OR
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
Black Futures Farm is both a community-building and production farm, where we grow meaningful relationships alongside vegetables, fruits, and herbs.
Community Focus
OR, African, Middle Eastern, African American, American (US), Asian, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), Latina/e/o/x, Native American, Pasifika
Location
Portland, OR
Community Focus
Femme, OR, African American, Queer, Islamic, Black
Location
Corbett, OR
Hi! I’m Shiny and this is my farm. I grow herbs and use them to make herbal products, but I also teach workshops, run a farmers market, support local BIPOC entrepreneurs, and give back to my community.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
BCP is a Community Based Organization with a passion for networking, sharing resources and collective work.
Community Focus
OR, African American, American (US), Black
Location
, OR
The Black Food Sovereignty Coalition (BFSC) serves as a collaboration hub for Black and Brown communities to confront the systemic barriers that make food, place and economic opportunities inaccessible to us. BFSC is focused on meeting these barriers with creative, innovative, and sustainable solutions. Built on a decade of work of founding members of the Black Food Sovereignty Council and other Black-identified leaders and stakeholders in the Pacific Northwest, the BFSC mission is to ignite Black and brown communities to participate as owners and movement leaders within food systems, placemaking, and economic development.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
, OR
We are a local Oregon-based nonprofit working to preserve and amplify the history and legacy of Juneteenth–founded by the late Clara Peoples, a beloved community leader who organized Oregon’s first Juneteenth celebration in 1945.
Community Focus
OR, African American, American (US), Black
Location
Portland, OR
Founded in October 2015 by organizers Idris “STARCHILE” Offerall and David “O.G.ONE” Jackson in collaboration with the city of Portland.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black, Settler
Location
Joseph, OR
The Maxville Heritage Interpretive Center seeks to gather, catalog, preserve, and interpret the history of Oregon’s early logging community of Maxville, Oregon and similar communities in the greater Pacific Northwest.
Community Focus
OR, African American, Black
Location
Portland, OR
The Soul District Business Association (formerly known as SDBA) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit that has been promoting and sustaining the economic and business development of inner urban North/Northeast Portland since 1977. We are a voice, advocate, facilitator and catalyst for approximately 5,000 businesses and 64,000 residents within our district boundaries.