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FAN regional clusters build relationship and conversation towards the 2024 legislative session. Pictured top left clockwise - Vancouver, East King County, Edmonds and Spokane. Registration for Dinner Closes Monday November 6! We look forward to welcoming you to our Annual Dinner celebration on Sunday, November 19! If you have thought about attending but haven’t registered yet, please do it this weekend. In-person space is limited! Go to our event webpage and click on Renton, Spokane, or Online buttons to secure your seat(s). We’re delighted to welcome travel expert and advocacy supporter Rick Steves, again in person in Renton. We will [...]

FAN board and staff members deeply grieve the continuing loss of life in the Israel-Hamas war, and we reaffirm FAN’s practice of not issuing statements on international issues, even as we know the pain is felt locally. We encourage our network to listen to varied voices on the conflict and connect to peacemaking efforts appropriate to their faith communities. We pledge to continue to work together in a multifaith way on domestic policy issues that unite us. Time to Register for FAN Dinner! Tables are filling up for our Annual Dinner celebration on Sunday evening, November 19! Please go to [...]

Registration for FAN Annual Dinner Open We are delighted to announce that our online registration is ready for tickets and tables at our Annual Dinner celebration on Sunday evening, November 19! Please go to our event webpage and click on the Renton, Spokane, or Online buttons to secure your seat(s). In-person space is limited! Our theme United in Hope emerged because this is the year we know we need to gather in the midst of policy threats to communities we care about and to our democracy as a whole. We plan to raise our Hope together to unite the strength [...]

Faith Action Network staff and volunteers have been out in the community this summer talking with neighbors from Spokane to Wenatchee, Puget Sound to Vancouver, about ways to increase justice across the state! We wish Shanah Tovah to our Jewish colleagues, friends and neighbors who are celebrating Rosh Hashanah beginning tonight. May your new year be sweet, and your weeks ahead of high holidays be blessed. Thank you for your presence in our network and partnership in Tikkun Olam, repairing the world! FAN Cluster Meetings Being Planned FAN staff are working with faith communities in our network to find dates this [...]

Please mark your calendars for our Annual Dinner on Sunday, November 19, and stay tuned for more details. We hope to offer an in-person gathering in two locations with online attendance as well. FAN Cluster Meetings Being Planned FAN staff are working with faith communities in our network to find dates this Fall for geographical cluster gatherings across our state. These meetings provide a way to get to know your neighbors and talk about local concerns and responses to needs in your community, and perhaps create new collaborations. Meanwhile, here are the meetings planned and registration links, beginning next week: [...]

Please mark your calendars for our Annual Dinner on Sunday, November 19, and stay tuned for more details. We hope to offer an in-person gathering in two locations with online attendance as well. Mail your Primary Ballots! Don’t forget to get your ballots in the mail by Tuesday, August 1. In this election cycle, we know that there are candidates and ballot issues that will make a significant difference in your local communities. For example, we know the positive impact the King County Veterans, Seniors, and Human Services Levy has made for hundreds of thousands of people, and it needs [...]

FAN Board and Staff met for our annual retreat recently to help strengthen our advocacy and solidarity. We are looking forward to the change we can accomplish together in our multi-faith statewide work against injustice. Concern for Increased Violence toward Faith Communities Friends, we are deeply concerned about the unprecedented number of reports of property destruction against faith communities in the past few months, most recently during Pride month. We know this is part of a nationwide campaign fueled by white Christian nationalism. We’ve heard about and seen on social media acts targeting Temple de Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, Edmonds United [...]

FAN joined Cascade Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Sunnyslope Church at the June 3 Wenatchee Pride Festival last weekend. See statewide Pride events and a new Protecting Pride guide below. Thanks to FAN Advocates at Summits! We enjoyed our final Spring Summit last Sunday, with people from across the state joining online plus a room of advocates in person in Southwest Washington, to hear FAN updates and connect across issues and regions in small groups. We are grateful to the 90 FAN advocates who joined our May and June summits to engage with FAN and the issues that motivate us to [...]