IAF Northwest
The IAF Northwest is a regional network of broad-based community organizations in Washington, Oregon, Canada and Australia. It is part of the larger Industrial Areas Foundation which has affiliates in 19 additional states, the United Kingdom and Germany. Started in 1940, the IAF is the oldest and most widely recognized network of its kind.
he IAF Northwest supports the charitable and educational activities of affiliated organizations, including the Spokane Alliance and the Sound Alliance in Washington state, the Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good in Oregon, and the Greater Edmonton Alliance in Alberta, Canada. These organizations are built using an institutional membership model that unites a diverse mix of religious institutions, education and business associations, unions and other community-based nonprofits.
The IAF is nonideological and strictly nonpartisan, but proudly, publicly, and persistently political. Through local affiliates, the IAF builds a political base among voluntary institutions that includes religious congregations, labor locals, homeowner groups, recovery groups, parents associations, non-profits, immigrant societies, schools, seminaries, orders of men and women religious, and others.
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