LOCATION: Port Ludlow, WA, U.S.A.

ORGANIZATION TYPE: Non-for-profit advocacy

FOCUS AREA: Children / Families, Education, Environment / Land Use, Food security / Nutrition, Health Care Delivery, Housing / Neighborhoods, Immigration, Income & Wealth, International, Jobs & Work, Law, Media / Journalism, Mental health / Psychology, Public Health, Public Policy, Race / Ethnicity, Social Inclusion, Transportation

HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVES: The NAACP has been working for nearly a century to eliminate inequities and to ensure the legal, economic, health, social equality for all people. We achieve our goals through grassroots movements, the democratic process and community involvement. The core of our strength lies in empowering underrepresented community members to offer each other support, friendship and faith. We believe that total personal well being can only be achieved by maintaining physical, mental and spiritual health.