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Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
Faith, North America
Location
Seattle, WA
CAIR Washington is grassroots advocacy and civil rights organization based in Seattle that serves the Muslim community across Washington state. Our purpose is to defend the civil liberties of Muslim Washingtonians no matter where they live or their level of income. We do this by 1) providing free legal services to Muslims who’ve been discriminated against because they are Muslim, 2) working to combat Islamophobia and bigotry through education and storytelling, and 3) empowering our community to be politically and socially engaged while shaping laws and policies that impact us.
Community Focus
Faith, Middle East
Location
Mercer Island, WA
NYHS provides more than just an exceptional college-preparatory education rooted in Jewish values.
Community Focus
Faith, Middle East
Location
Seattle, WA
The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle leads a strong Jewish Puget Sound by serving as a community voice, strengthening connections to Israel and World Jewry, and making investments in Jewish life, for today and the next generation.
Community Focus
Faith, Middle East
Location
Seattle, WA
Our vibrant undergraduate program offers a wide range of programs including Shabbat, holiday, educational, cultural, social justice, and Israel-related offerings that attract Jewish students from a broad range of backgrounds.
Community Focus
Faith, Middle East
Location
Port Angeles, WA
The Congregation Olympic B’nai Shalom (COBS) serves the North Olympic Peninsula’s Jewish Community and provides Jewish services in Sequim Washington and Jewish services in Port Angeles Washington as well as for people living in Joyce Washington, Forks Washington, and points between. We are a member of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Community Focus
Southeastern Asia
Location
Seattle, WA
Little Saigon is the social, economic, and cultural hub of the Vietnamese community in the Puget Sound region. In the 40 years since the first group of Vietnamese businesses took root in this area, Little Saigon has become a vibrant and vital part of the Vietnamese community as well as the Chinatown International District.

Friends of Little Saigon was established in 2011, at the start of massive redevelopment in Little Saigon. Our mission is to preserve and enhance Little Saigon’s cultural, economic, and historic vitality.
Community Focus
Southeastern Asia, North America
Location
Seattle, WA
Tết In Seattle (T-I-S.) organizes the annual Tết Festival, a free celebration event held at the Seattle Center as part of Seattle Center's Festal world cultural program. The Tết Festival celebrates the cultural roots of Vietnamese-Americans through the celebration of Tết, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year, by presenting, promoting, and providing hands-on experience in the arts, musics, performances, and foods that are unique to Vietnam.
Community Focus
Central Asia, North America
Location
Seattle, WA
First Soviet-American Sister City in the U.S., connecting the people of Seattle, Washington and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Community Focus
Eastern Asia
Location
Mill Creek, WA
The Foundation aims at promoting the local cultures between Taiwan and the United States, and takes the promotion of the education standard of the American-born Taiwanese descendants as the main goal.
Community Focus
Western Europe
Location
Redmond, WA
The Seattle Swiss Society is an active club, a great way to meet new and old Swiss friends.
Community Focus
Eastern Europe, North America
Location
San Francisco, CA
The Congress of Russian Americans, Inc. (CRA) founded in 1973, by a group of concerned Russian Americans, is a national organization with membership throughout the United States. Its members are US citizens and permanent residents of Russian descent who are non-Communist in their beliefs. The personal and social lives of most members are firmly rooted in religious Christian Orthodox values which reject all racial, nationalistic, ethnic, or religious antagonism.
Community Focus
Central Europe
Location
Seattle, WA
Polish Festival Seattle is a premier event created to celebrate Polish culture, traditions and contemporary achievements in a joyful atmosphere with diverse audiences of the Greater Seattle region.
Community Focus
Central Europe, North America
Location
Seattle, WA
Community Focus
Northern Europe, North America
Location
Seattle, WA
Promoting international cooperation in business, industry, education and culture to build relationships between Seattle, Washington, and Bergen, Norway.
Community Focus
Indigenous
Location
Deming, WA
We are a Tribe of approximately 2,000 members, located in our ancestral homeland in the northwest corner of Washington State. Our name comes from a place name in our language and translates to “always bracken fern roots,” which illustrates our close ties to our land and the resources that continue to give strength to our people.
Community Focus
Australasia
Location
Seattle, WA
The Seattle-Christchurch Sister City Association was founded in 1981 by a group of volunteers seeking to improve the people-to-people connections between Seattle, USA, and Christchurch, New Zealand. The SCSCA builds a valuable international connection through a wide range of activities in Seattle, WA and Christchurch, NZ.
Community Focus
Central Europe, Eastern Asia, Northern Europe, North America
Location
Bellevue, WA
Today, the SCI network represents more than 2,500 communities with some 137 countries around the world. Bellevue joined this effort in 1969 when the city of Yao, Japan, became its first Sister City and the Bellevue Sister Cities Association was officially established!

In 2019 Bellevue Sister Cities Association will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary as an organization and it’s 50th anniversary of being a Sister City to Yao, Japan!
Community Focus
Southeastern Asia, Veteran
Location
Tacoma, WA
K.V.I. is the core of the Khmer Veterans International, dedicated to the development of the Khmer grassroots organizations, and to promote the education, social and cultural development in the community.
Community Focus
Eastern Africa
Location
Kent, WA
Community Focus
Eastern Asia, North America
Location
Seattle, WA
The JCCCW vision is "A lively, intergenerational gathering place and destination in the Pacific Northwest, where people of all backgrounds learn Japanese language and traditional arts, celebrate Japanese and Japanese American history and culture, and build intercultural understanding."