- AFS Global Educators Program
AFS Greater Puget Sound is a regional volunteer organization supporting AFS USA’s intercultural learning programs for students and teachers. Once known as American Field Service, AFS is considered the second largest volunteer organization in the world with at least 50 countries participating in its programs.
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- AFS-USA
AFS-USA works towards a more just and peaceful world by providing international and intercultural learning experiences to individuals, families, schools, and communities through a global volunteer partnership.
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- Alliance Française de Seattle
The Alliance Française de Seattle is a dynamic educational and cultural 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Washington, whose mission is to promote the French language and Francophone cultures through diverse programs in the Puget Sound area. The Alliance Française de Seattle offers French language classes for all ages and levels, maintains the largest French certification center in the Pacific Northwest, and proposes concerts, lectures, screenings, workshops and exhibits for a local community of Francophiles, Francophones, and French learners.
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- American Cultural Exchange Service
ACES is a not-for-profit organization that provides cultural and educational exchange opportunities and support to K-12 participants, educators, and American families and communities. ACES believes that world peace can be realized through international friendships and global understanding that result from personal interaction provided by exchange experiences.
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- Around-n-Over
Around-n-Over is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Seattle, WA. Our mission is to captivate the youth as they follow our human powered journeys around the world. Through relevant lesson plans, we will expand the horizons of our youth and give them an opportunity to interact with students in faraway lands.
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- Asia Society > Global Education
The Center for Global Education at Asia Society partners with education leaders and institutions from the United States, Asia, and around the world to tackle one of the most critical education challenges today: how to educate all students for employability and citizenship in a global era. Our mission is to develop global competence in students and educators as the foundation for understanding between people in the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the world. We accomplish this by working with educators, school districts, and community programs to ensure students have the necessary tools and support for our shared global future. For more information, visit AsiaSociety.org/Education. Contact: Heather Singmaster, Director, Center for Global Education, hsingmaster@asiasociety.org.
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- Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
The Center for Applied Linguistics promotes language learning, international education and cultural understanding by serving as a trusted source for research, resources, and policy analysis.
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- Children’s Museum of Tacoma
From the backyard to the moon, the Children’s Museum of Tacoma celebrates the power of play in the life-long journey of learning. Our imaginative environment reaches beyond home and school experiences, nurturing growth and development as young children and their adults explore the world together. Join us for Passport to Play program and participate in a play-packed exploration of Spanish and/or Chinese language and culture. Monday – Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday Noon – 5 p.m.
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- Chinese Language Teachers Association – WA
CLTA-WA is established with a vision to offer an open and welcoming forum for all to experience and enjoy Chinese language and culture, to contribute information and ideas, and to ask questions and share insights. Our mission is to promote quality Chinese education in the State of Washington.
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- The Choices Program
The Choices Program creates engaging educational resources and makes innovative scholarship accessible to diverse classrooms. Choices curriculum empowers students to understand the relationship between history and current issues while developing the analytical skills to become thoughtful global citizens. The Choices Program is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Department of History at Brown University.
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- Companion Flag
The Companion Flag — A Symbol of All that Human Beings Have in Common.
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- Dual Language Education New Mexico
Dual Language Education of New Mexico (DLeNM) is a grass-roots educational non-profit organization serving the professional and informational needs of New Mexican communities that wish to develop, refine, and/or implement dual language education programs. We work with lower socioeconomic communities who struggle to close the achievement gap while developing the linguistic and sociocultural capital of their communities.
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- EarthCorps
EarthCorps is a Seattle-based non-profit, conservation and educational organization. Our mission is to build global community through local environmental service. Our work engages the local community while teaching leadership, restoration and community development skills to youth from across the country and around the world (e.g., Philippines, Russia, Guatemala, Kenya).
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- eLearning Chinese Studio
Provide an engaging and supportive learning space. Create entertaining and interactive learning experiences. Encourage respect for all people. Instill pride for your own culture.
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- Enso Center
Enso is an ancient, international symbol of inner strength, harmony, community, and peace. It symbolizes a commitment to personal growth through body and mind balance, discipline, and practice. Enso comes from the Japanese language and literally means an “open” circle.
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- Facing the Future: People and Planet
Facing the Future is a nonprofit organization that strives to educate people about critical global issues, including population growth, poverty, over-consumption, and environmental destruction. We believe there are just and sustainable solutions to all these issues, and that these problems are, in reality, opportunities to invoke positive change.
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- FIUTS (Foundation for International Understanding Through Students)
FIUTS advances international understanding through cross-cultural experiences, student leadership, and community connections. Founded at the University of Washington in 1948, FIUTS envisions a global community, tied to the Pacific Northwest, where people are connected across borders and cultures.
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- French Bilingual Association
The French Bilingual Association of Seattle’s Eastside is partnering with the Bellevue School District and Tillicum Middle School to offer bilingual education suited for middle school children with native or near-native abilities in French.
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- Fulbright Teacher Exchanges
The Fulbright Teacher Exchanges are sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) with funding provided by the U.S. Government, and administered by IREX . The Fulbright Teacher offer opportunities for educators to learn, teach, consult, observe, and collaborate in classrooms and schools abroad. The Fulbright Teacher Exchanges are open to primary and secondary (K–12) educators, including teachers, library media specialists, counselors and others. Programs are also available to principals and education leaders on occasion. For more information about program eligibility and duration, please visit the program detail pages linked below:
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- Full Circle Leadership
Our work emerges from the central question: What kind of leadership is needed to create holistic, healthy, and harmonious relationships within the human and non-human life in the 21st century? Our work occurs within an ecological and social justice context. Conversations about racism, classism, sexism, and other oppressions as well as conversations about ecological sustainability are inherently present in all our inquiry.
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- George Pocock Rowing Foundation
The Mission of George Pocock Rowing Foundation is to support and develop the sport of rowing in the Pacific NW – including fostering National and International Competition between the nations around the Pacific Rim. The Foundation fosters international exchanges between athletes and coaches in the US and China, and is interested in any developments that make sense for it to become involved in.
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- Global Scholar program
The Global Scholar program is an intensive two-week seminar for high school students interested in international affairs.
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- Global Visionaries
Global Visionaries programs educate young people on peace, justice, and environmental issues, foster cross-cultural understanding, and strengthen communities and families, uniting diverse local communities and building international ties, fostering the tangible hope of lasting peace.
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- Global Washington
Global Washington works to strengthen the state’s global development sector by serving as an information resource, building capacity and
facilitating opportunities for exchange.
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- Hyogo Business and Cultural Center
The Hyogo Business & Cultural Center (HBCC) is committed to the continued development of the sister-state relationship between Washington State and Hyogo Prefecture in Japan by promoting governmental, business, cultural, and educational collaboration between the two regions. We build connections between Washington and Hyogo by supporting Japanese language education, offering cultural workshops, assisting student and teacher exchanges, providing business development services, and supporting sister-city relationships between Washington and Hyogo cities. The Hyogo Business & Cultural Center also collaborates with a number of community organizations on events that increase awareness of multicultural issues, Hyogo Prefecture, and Japan as a whole.
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- International Child Art Foundation
ICAF serves American children as their national arts organization that fosters their creativity and develops mutual empathy between them and with their peers worldwide through the universal language of the arts. To develop our students global competencies and universal consciousness, ICAF organizes the Arts Olympiad–the world’s largest school arts program–and produces the World Children’s Festival at The National Mall across from the U.S. Capitol. Children can bring together our divided nation and conflicted world to create new hope for the future. But they need your help and support.
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- International Education & Resource Network
iEARN is a non-profit global network that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
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- Middle East Peace Camp
The Middle East Peace Camp is a grassroots Arab and Jewish coalition dedicated to embracing our common humanity by empowering children and youth through education, recreation and leadership development.
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- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
Our members believe that international education advances learning and scholarship, fosters understanding and respect among people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives, is essential for developing globally competent individuals, and builds leadership for the global community. We believe that international education lies at the core of an interconnected world characterized by peace, security, and well-being for all.
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- National Museum of Language: The National Museum of Language is a completely virtual museum devoted to inspiring an appreciation for the magic and mystery of language. Themes of the museum’s programs and exhibits include universal aspects of language, language in society, and languages of the world.
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- Nordic Heritage Museum
Visit a place where history comes alive and contemporary artists and community activities are celebrated with vibrant exhibits and events. Dedicated to collecting, preserving and educating since its founding in 1980, the Nordic Heritage Museum is the only museum in the United States to honor the legacy of immigrants from the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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- Northwest Folklife
Northwest Folklife promotes the cultural heritage ofPacific Northwest communities. It presents the annual Memorial Day weekend Northwest Folklife Festival, education programs and other public programs.
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- One America OneAmerica® is the largest immigrant and refugee advocacy organization in Washington State, organizing with and advocating for diverse communities including Latinx, African, and Asian. Initially named Hate Free Zone, OneAmerica was founded immediately after September 11, 2001 to address the backlash, hate crimes, and discrimination against immigrant communities of color, primarily Muslims, Arab Americans, East Africans, and South Asians. Today, OneAmerica plays an active and leading role in state and national coalitions working on immigrant rights, education, economic and environmental justice, voting rights, and immigrant integration. We believe that building broad-based movements led by people of color and their allies and grounded in grassroots community organizing will create a more just, democratic, and compassionate society.
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- One City Project
One City Project provides resources to support community languages in the Seattle area, including paid Bilingual Education Internships and a listing of language learning opportunities for Arabic, Cantonese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog, Somali, and Vietnamese.
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- OneWorld Now!
OneWorld Now!’s vision is that all young people have access to transformative international education. We work toward this goal by offering critical world language instruction (Arabic, Korean, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese), global leadership development, and study abroad opportunities to primarily low-income, youth of color in the Seattle area.
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- Operation Smile
Operation Smile, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, is an international children’s medical charity with a presence in more than 60 countries, whose network of more than 5,400 medical volunteers from over 80 countries is dedicated to helping improve the health and lives of children. Since its founding in 1982, Operation Smile has provided more than 220,000 surgical procedures for children and young adults born with cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities. To build long-term self-sufficiency in resource poor environments, Operation Smile trains doctors and local medical professionals in its partner countries so they are empowered to treat their local communities. Operation Smile also donates medical equipment, supplies and provides year-round medical treatment through its worldwide centers.
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- Pardada Pardadi Educational Society
Pardada Pardadi Educational Society was founded in 2000. It is a girls school in rural Uttar Pradesh, providing values based education in one of the poorest regions of the country. Girls receive 3 meals a day, uniforms and shoes, transportation, textbooks and health care. Girls are guaranteed either higher education, or employment upon graduation. Pardada Pardadi has expanded to become a Community Development organization, employing women in textile production and a call center. 1500 women are members of the Self Help Group and Dairy project. PPES is committed to continuing their work to improve the lives of girls and women in this region.
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- Peace Corps
Peace Corps has been sending certified and future teachers overseas for over 42 years. Most continue the Peace Corps’ mission of cross-cultural and technical exchange after they return.
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- PeaceJam Northwest
PeaceJam is an international education program built around leading Nobel Peace Laureates who work personally with youth to pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody. The goal of PeaceJam is to inspire a new generation of peacemakers who will transform their local communities, themselves and the world.
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- Population Connection Washington
Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources. About Population Connection’s Education Program Population Connection’s Education Program is the only national, population education program with a strong emphasis on teacher training for educators of grades pre-K through 12.
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- Seattle Asian Art Museum
Students and the general public are welcome to explore the Seattle Asian Art Museum’s world-class permanent collection and frequent special exhibitions. Throughout the year, SAAM also organizes numerous exciting “hands-on” events, such as art demonstrations.
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- Teachers without Borders
Teachers Without Borders connects teacher leaders to information and each other to make local change — on a global scale — through our network in 185 countries.
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- U.S. Global Leadership Campaign
The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, a coalition of over 300 business and organizations, is dedicated to supporting a strong international affairs budget and promoting U.S. global engagement.
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- Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT)
Washington Association for Language Teaching (WAFLT) seeks to meet the needs of a profession dedicated to the teaching of world language skills and cultural awareness by providing information and sensitive global perspectives in an era of ever-increasing internationalization.
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- Washington Council on International Trade
The Washington Council on International Trade (WCIT) is the only organization in Washington dedicated exclusively to advocating for public policies that increase our state’s international competitiveness. On behalf of its members — manufacturers, retailers, service providers, farmers & ranchers, non-profit organizations and individuals – WCIT advocates for strong, pro-trade policies and investments that benefit Washington’s small, medium and large employers and that create jobs for Washington residents.
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- Washington State PTA
The Washington State PTA (WSPTA) is a nonprofit, membership association which seeks to bring together the home, school
and community on behalf of all children and youth.
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- Woodland Park Zoo
For more than 100 years, Woodland Park Zoo has been a cherished community resource and a unique urban oasis. Generations of Puget Sound families have come to the zoo and marvel at the animals and are inspired by the peaceful and beautiful surroundings. Woodland Park Zoo serves as a vital educational resource for teachers and students across the state.
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- World Affairs Council Seattle
The World Affairs Council of Seattle is a membership-based organization that creates forums for discussion of critical world issues. We invite you to get involved, educated, and informed through our many programs.
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- YES! Magazine
YES! is an ad-free quarterly journal of hopeful news for shaping a just, compassionate and sustainable future. YES! is published by the Positive Futures Network, a local nonprofit, and offers teachers a free 1-year subscription.
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