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Community Focus
Location
Community Focus
Foster Youth, WA, Veteran, Native American
Location
Seattle, WA
Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center is a land base and community center for Native Americans in the Seattle area, and United Indians’ headquarters.
Community Focus
WA, Jewish
Location
Seattle, WA
SJCS provides an excellent, egalitarian Kindergarten through 5th grade General and Judaic education that promotes Jewish identity and practice, respect for diversity, responsibility for our world, and lifelong learning.
Community Focus
WA, Settler
Location
Stanwood, WA
We discover, preserve, and display materials which help to establish, illustrate, and interpret the economic, social, and cultural heritage of our area.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), Native American
Location
Seattle, WA
The Seattle-King County urban Indian community boasts a wide range of Native families. We are here to help support any urban Native that needs assistance.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), Native American, Squaxin Island
Location
Shelton, WA
The Squaxin Island Tribe's Museum Library and Research Center features exhibits and rare artifacts that tell the unique story of the people who have lived and prospered along the shores of the inland Salish Sea for untold centuries. Come and learn about South Puget Sound from the perspective of those who know it best.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), For All
Location
Black Diamond, WA
The Black Diamond Historical Society was formed by a small group, led by Carl and Ann Steiert, who decided to honor the nation’s bicentennial by preserving a little bit of America right at home. Many felt a strong concern for the disappearing buildings and artifacts in Black Diamond. Restoration of the depot began following the formation of the Historical Society in 1976. The museum opened in 1982.
Community Focus
WA, Alaska Native, Indigenous, Native American
Location
Seattle, WA
IWRI is an transdisciplinary institute at the University of Washington and is housed at the School of Social Work. Our vision is to support the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples to achieve full and complete health and wellness.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Renton, WA
The Key to Change offers middle and high school students year-long access to world class, professional violin instruction in South King County.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), Settler
Location
Rollingbay, WA
Who are we? Enthusiastic amateur genealogists exploring family roots from all over the world in a fun, supportive, learning environment. Benefits of membership in this all volunteer non-profit society include lectures, focused interest groups, newsletter, website, and mentor support to use traditional methods and DNA to research your family tree.
Community Focus
WA, For All
Location
Olympia, WA
Community Focus
WA, For All, Multicultural
Location
Tacoma, WA
The Sister Cities Council of Tacoma advances Tacoma as a global city and promotes peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation through citizen diplomacy – one individual, one community at a time – for the benefit of Tacoma and its sister cities.

To accomplish its mission, The Sister Cities Council of Tacoma develops programs in the areas of cultural arts and tourism, global education, government relations, and international business.
Community Focus
WA, American (US), For All
Location
Spokane Valley, WA
Community Focus
WA, Southeast Asian, Asian, Filipino
Location
Seattle, WA
Madya kita gabos na bicolano sa Washington State!
Community Focus
WA, Muckleshoot / bǝqǝlšuɫ, Native American, Settler
Location
Enumclaw, WA
Federation Forest is a 574-acre day-use park with hundreds of acres of old-growth Douglas-fir trees, mature western hemlock, Sitka spruce and western red cedar. Its short, flat interpretive trails make the park an ideal destination for families with young children.

The Catherine Montgomery Interpretive Center is open June through August on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to dusk. During April, May, September and October, the Catherine Montgomery Interpretive Center is open on the weekends depending on weather conditions.
Community Focus
WA, Jewish
Location
Seattle, WA
Seattle Hebrew Academy is a Modern Orthodox Jewish Day School offering a rich educational program for children 1 year of age through eighth grade.
Community Focus
WA, Southeast Asian, American (US), Asian, Asian American, Filipino, Filipino American
Location
Seattle, WA
FANHS Greater Seattle chapter works “to promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation, and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation, and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans.”
Community Focus
African, WA
Location
Auburn, WA
Mission Africa empowers families in Washington State and in villages in Africa through three focus areas: education, healthcare, & poverty alleviation
Community Focus
WA, American (US), Settler
Location
Prosser, WA
Visitors will learn of the arrival of European-American homesteaders, dry land ranching, early day community life, horse and buggy culture, antique firearms, and the profound impact of both the Northern Pacific Railway and the United States Reclamation Act.
Community Focus
WA, LGBTQ, For All
Location
Olympia, WA
Stonewall Youth is an organization of youth, activists, and allies that empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQQIA) youth to speak for themselves, educate their communities, and support each other.
Community Focus
WA, Southeast Asian, Asian, Burmese
Location
Seattle, WA
The University of Washington's Burma Action Group was formed in 1994 by four students who were searching for a way to help improve the human rights situation in Burma.