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- Leading the Way in Green Jobs
- The IAF Northwest and its affiliated Alliances – Spokane Alliance, Sound Alliance (greater Seattle-Tacoma), Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good (greater Portland), Greater Edmonton Alliance (Alberta) and Sydney Alliance (Australia) – have effectively demonstrated the powerful synergy that arises from combining environmental initiatives with job creation strategies.
- Groundbreaking Green Jobs Legislation
- The history of Washington's SB 5649, a groundbreaking bill championed by Sound Alliance members, which will generate living-wage green jobs, energy retrofits and savings, and help to reduce carbon emissions.
- Recent Accomplishments
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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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Who We Are and How We Work
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.