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The Center's affiliate organization, Western State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections and promoting a more transparent election system that expands democracy.
   
   
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  For 20 years, Western States Center has had the pleasure of working with incredible grassroots leaders and organizations in the West working to build power for their communities and win progressive social change. The following are a few of the many progressive Washington-based organizations working for justice.  
     
 
Progressive Organizations in Washington

Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center - The Asian & Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center works to prevent violence against women through community organizing and education; providing safe, culturally relevant services for women, youth and children; and creating housing resources for families who face domestic and sexual violence, and victimization from human trafficking in Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

CASA Latina - CASA Latina is dedicated to empowering Latino immigrants through educational and economic opportunities, helping many immigrants learn the skills and get the jobs that they need to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Communities Against Rape and Abuse - A group of activists in the Seattle area banded together in August 1999 to create an organization that would undermine the root causes of sexual violence. By January 2000, these activists established Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), an organization spearheaded by survivors marginalized from mainstream sexual assault services.

Community Coalition for Environmental Justice - CCEJ's mission is to achieve environmental and economic justice in low-income communities and communities of color, a mission rooted in the belief that everyone, regardless of race or income, has the right to a clean and healthy community.

El Comité Pro-Amnistia General y Justicia Social - Comité is a non-profit grassroots Latino organization, which struggles to achieve comprehensive immigration reform for all working immigrants and to fulfill the dream for social justice. The committee is made up of three sectors: nonprofit social justice organizations, labor unions and religious groups.

Equal Rights Washington - Equal Rights Washington (ERW) is a statewide political advocacy organization for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community of Washington State. ERW works to end discrimination against LGBT people throughout the state.

Hate Free Zone - Hate Free Zone advances the fundamental principles of democracy and justice at the local, state and national levels by building power within immigrant communities, in collaboration with key allies.

Korean American Voters Alliance - The Korean American Voters Alliance (KAVA) is dedicated to empowering the political unity of Korean Americans in Washington State.

Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing - LELO is a 33-year-old racial and economic justice workers' rights 501c3 nonprofit organization. As an organization led by ordinary workers, LELO develops the leadership of those most marginalized in our society: people of color, working class women, recent immigrants and LGBTQ (lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/ queer) workers. LELO's primary social change strategy is local organizing, with a heavy emphasis on political education and networks of solidarity with workers across the globe.

Nonprofit Assistance Center (NAC) - The Nonprofit Assistance Center helps groups to enhance their internal capacities by providing culturally competent training and mentoring for organizations' staffs and leaders. NAC's mission is to empower communities by building strong nonprofits and community leaders and to shape institutions and policies to achieve social justice and equity.

Odyssey Youth Center - Spokane's Odyssey Youth Center works with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and their allies to provide a safe place, education and advocacy to promote positive growth and self-empowerment.

Seattle Young People's Project (SYPP) - The Seattle Young People's Project is a youth-led, adult supported organization that empowers youth (ages 13-18) to express themselves and to take action on the issues that affect their lives.

Statewide Poverty Action Network - Poverty Action works to eliminate the root causes of poverty in Washington. Poverty Action is the state's largest and most diverse network of people influencing decisions in the state capitol to ensure everyone can have a better future.

Trikone NW - Trikone NW is a supportive, empowering, and affirming community for differently-oriented South Asians in the Pacific Northwest.

Washington Community Action Network - Washington CAN! is a statewide, grassroots lobbying organization with over 50,000 members. The mission of Washington CAN! is to achieve economic fairness in order to establish a democratic society characterized by racial and social justice, with respect for diversity, and a decent quality of life for those who reside in Washington State.

Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition - WROC is a coalition of individuals and welfare rights groups organized to empower people on welfare to effect positive change in their lives, the welfare system and other institutions that impact their lives. WROC's goal is to change the welfare system so that it treats welfare recipients fairly and with dignity.

 
     
 
 
     
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