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Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
WA, Indian
Location
, WA
Sahyadri Kannada Sangha is a non-profit charitable organization (501(c)(3)) serving the Greater Seattle and Western Washington population. Our mission is to promote the Kannada cultural and educational ties within the community, to promote events and activities that help maintain the Kannada cultural heritage of Karnataka, a southern state in India.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Bellingham, WA
The Whatcom Peace & Justice Center works to create a voice for peace and social justice in Whatcom County through partnerships with local community and religious organizations, direct action, public witness, and education on alternatives to violence and war. We call on our government and society to disavow policies of violence and seek a culture of peace.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Seattle, WA
We are Community Alliance for Global Justice, a grassroots collective working to strengthen the global food sovereignty movement.
Community Focus
Gender Non-Conforming, WA, LGBTQ, Women, Hawaiian / Kanaka Maoli, Pasifika
Location
Seattle, WA
Seven Star Women’s Kung Fu provides martial arts training to individuals who identify as women (age 13+), and non-binary/genderfluid folks comfortable training in an all women environment.
Community Focus
African, Middle Eastern, North African, WA, Egyptian
Location
Seattle, WA
The ARCE Northwest Chapter is based in Seattle and serves Washington State. We hold many lectures throughout the year on a wide-array of Egyptian-related topics (such as women, art, medicine, architecture, conservation) and time periods (Pharaonic, Islamic, Modern). This group is for members and non-members of the American Research Center in Egypt. We are open to all individuals who are interested in Egypt and the research being conducted there.
Community Focus
WA, Lao
Location
Renton, WA
Lao Community Service Center (LCSC) is a non-profit community organization that assists refugees and immigrants with social, cultural, and educational services. LCSC’s mission is to unite and strengthen the Lao Community in the Pacific Northwest.
Community Focus
WA, Southeast Asian, Asian, Filipino
Location
, WA
Anakbayan is a comprehensive national democratic youth & student organization. AB Seattle is the first overseas chapter of Anakbayan Philippines. We were founded on Nov 30, 2002.
Community Focus
WA, Islamic
Location
Redmond , WA
MAPS-AMEN is an outreach and advocacy organization that seeks to fulfill the justice mandate in Islam and empower the community by focusing on education, engagement, encouragement of positive media change, and empowerment. We build bridges of understanding and unity to achieve justice together, envisioning a world free of hate and violence.
Community Focus
WA, Jewish
Location
Mercer Island, WA
NYHS provides more than just an exceptional college-preparatory education rooted in Jewish values.
Community Focus
WA, Women, Black
Location
Seattle, WA
Ida L. Jackson brought the presence of Alpha Kappa Alpha to the American West Coast in 1921, chartering Rho Chapter at the University of California Berkley. On August 1, 1933, Beta Theta Chapter was chartered in Seattle, Washington at the Tacoma, Washington home of Sadie McIver. Beta Theta consisted of both undergraduate and graduate members.

By 1948, there were enough members in Beta Theta Chapter to form a second chapter, which would be named Delta Upsilon Omega – the first graduate chapter in Washington State.
Community Focus
WA, Brazilian
Location
Kirkland, WA
Show Brazil Productions is a family arts organization lead by co-founders Brazilian-American immigrants Eduardo and Ana Paula Mendonça with the goal of incorporate quality, experience and total commitment into every one of its projects to create more than satisfying results.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), For All
Location
Sammamish, WA
The Sammamish Heritage Society is committed to helping residents and visitors learn and understand our rich past.
Community Focus
African American, WA
Location
Pasco, WA
Building Bridges and Bringing People Together.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), Native American
Location
Spokane, WA
Salish School of Spokane is a Washington State non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of directors. We offer Salish immersion school in the City of Spokane.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Seattle, WA
The Alliance for Education is an independent, local education fund that works in partnership with Seattle Public Schools to address big challenges facing students, families and educators.
Community Focus
North European, WA, European, Latvian
Location
Shelton, WA
Officially founded in 1982, the West Coast Latvian Education Center (WCLEC), or, as it is known in Latvian, the Rietumkrasta Latviešu Izglītības Centrs (RKLIC), is an educational and cultural nonprofit. The West Coast Latvian Education Center’s purpose, and its mission, is to foster, promote, and organize educational and cultural events for all individuals of Latvian ancestry or affinity. It is in Shelton, Washington, in our home nestled in the woods, that the West Coast Latvian Education Center strives to give voice to our rich culture and traditions.
Community Focus
WA, Native American, Shoalwater Bay
Location
Tokeland, WA
Our tribe was formed in 1866 incorporating members of Lower Chehalis, Shoalwater Bay and Chinookan people.
Community Focus
WA, Latina/e/o/x, For All
Location
Seattle, WA
El Centro de la Raza strives to use social, cultural, educational, economic and civic activities as vehicles to bring together peoples of all races and refuses to separate our nation’s economic model from the historic tragedy of racism, poverty, and war.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), Native American, Sauk-Suiattle / saʔqʷəbixʷ-suyaƛ̓̀̀ʔbixʷ
Location
Darrington, WA
The Sauk-Suiattle Indian people lived under the gaze of Whitehorse Mountain for many generations. We lived as hunters, Gatherers and fishermen in the region of Sauk Prairie near the present-day town of Darrington, Washington.
Community Focus
WA, LGBTQ, Latina/e/o/x
Location
Seattle, WA
Seattle's Latino LGBTQ organization