Diversity

Contractor Development and Competitiveness Center
The CDCC provides assistance and support to small businesses who are not fully participating in the contracting opportunities in this region. Its mission is to empower minority, women, disadvantaged, and emerging small construction firms.

National Association of Women in Construction
The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) originally began as Women in Construction of Fort Worth, Texas. NAWIC's core purpose is to enhance the success of women in the construction industry. This national organization has chapters in the Puget Sound, Spokane, and several other locations.

National Association for Women in Masonry
NAWM offers education, training, and networking to enhance the leadership skills of women in the building industry

National Organization of Minority Architects
The National Organization of Minority Architects' purpose is to minimize the effect of racism in architecture.

Professional Women in Construction
Professional Women in Construction is a nonprofit organization providing information on construction trends through seminars and networking events.

Sisters In The Building Trades
Sisters In The Building Trades provides information, resources an support for women seeking to enter and thrive in construction trade careers.

The National Institute of Women in the Trades, Technology and Science (National WITTS)
This organization promotes integration of women into non-traditional occupations, offering a range of topical publications and products.

Washington State Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises
The Office works with state agencies and institutions, other government agencies and their private partners, individual business owners to certify eligible firms as minority business enterprises (MBE); women business enterprises (WBE), and/or social and economic disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE).

Washington State Labor and Industries – Women in Trades
These websites are directly related to women in the trades.

Washington Women in Trades
The Washington Women in Trades was founded in 1978 for women working in trades to gather and share information. The Association sponsors an annul trades fair, where employers can recruit women for trades work. The fair is also an outreach to girls and women, including students from schools statewide who may not be familiar with the high paying jobs available in trades careers.

Women in the Labor Force: A Databook
Women Construction Owners and Executives promotes the growth of women owners and executives in the construction industry.

Washington Women In Need:
A privately funded non-profit organization that provides funding for education and health care for women in need in Washington state.
http://www.wawomeninneed.org/

SpeechBubble:
SpeechBubble is a simple system for conveying messages to a multilingual workforce.  Using simple graphics and animated sequences, each scene is portrayed in an easily understood manner, conveying your key message in an effective way.
http://www.speechbubble.ie/