Affiliates
The Seattle Metro Chamber has a long history of incubation and operational partnership with organizations that engage employers on important issues at the local, state, federal, and international levels. These partnerships provide our business community dedicated capacity for long-term work on these issues, beyond what a broad-based organization like the Chamber can offer.
Learn more below about our affiliate organizations and special programs, which offer focused expertise and have independent pathways for your engagement.
Serving Seattle and the Metro Region
Education
The Alliance for Education’s mission is to support excellence in education by advancing educational justice and racial equity for students in Seattle Public Schools. The Alliance envisions a deeply invested community that collectively ensures all students in Seattle Public Schools experience a sense of belonging, receive an excellent and equitable education, and reach their fullest potential.
Leadership Development
Leadership Tomorrow cultivates, inspires, connects, and engages leaders across the public, private, and nonprofit sector. Its curriculum fosters leaders who understand regional issues and opportunities, leverage the power of collaboration, and work to advance equity for all.
Civic Health
Seattle CityClub is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization improving the civic health of the Puget Sound region by providing programs that bridge politics, sectors, and generations to inform and engage residents and community leaders.
Serving Employers Statewide
International Trade
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, farmers, retailers and service providers—WCIT advocates for trade policies and investments that benefit Washington’s workers and employers.
Technology
Through programs, events, reports, and policy activities, the Technology Alliance advances excellence in education, research, and entrepreneurial climate to support the growth of our innovation economy, the creation of high-wage jobs, and economic prosperity for every Washingtonian.
Equity
Washington Employers for Racial Equity is a coalition of employers from across Washington state committed to supporting Black Washingtonians and building a future rooted in equity for all.
Serving Employers in Washington and Beyond
Clean Technology
Founded in 2007 by business and cleantech leaders, the CleanTech Alliance facilitates the generation and growth of clean tech-focused companies and jobs, educational programs, research, products, and services
Seattle Metro Chamber Affiliate Incubation Successes.
The Chamber incubates smaller organizations, supporting them until they are ready to operate independently. Below are organizations that got their start as affiliates of the
Chamber:
