Announcements

On March 24, 2019, beloved ACRS champion and Walk for Rice co-founder Sam Mitsui passed away.  For decades, Mr. Mitsui’s passionate enthusiasm and tireless efforts helped shape and grow ACRS’ [...]

King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Monday announced a partnership with the Seattle Foundation to create the first-ever Regional Census Fund that will provide [...]

Dear friends, After nearly 17 years away, I am thrilled to be back in the Pacific Northwest and to serve as ACRS’ new executive director. I want to take a moment to thank Diane Narasaki who [...]

Stories are being written every day at ACRS – stories of hope and opportunity, stories of recovery and healing, stories about building a new life in a foreign land, stories of immigrants and [...]

Dear Friends, Happy holidays! As we near the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018, we can all take pride in where we have stood, met, rallied and marched in this challenging year. For many of [...]

With each passing day, many of us find ourselves asking what the standard for the “new normal” is. But just when we get to a point where we think a line has been established, it inevitably gets [...]

Dear Friends, The battle between the better angels of our nature and our worst impulses has been waged since our nation’s founding. We have aspired to the prospect that all people are created [...]

Act now to stop S. 354, the RAISE Act! Senators Tom Cotton of Georgia and David Perdue of Arkansas have introduced the RAISE Act to cut legal immigration by half, reduce green cards to family [...]

Thank you to everyone who contacted our senators, and friends in key states, to urge their opposition to the Senate healthcare bill or “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BRCA), the heartless [...]

By Andria Keirn, Americorps Employment and Self Sufficiency Aide May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that Asian Pacific Americans [...]