CAIR-WA received the "Connecting Communities" award at Faith Action Network's December 3, 2011 banquet at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle.

CAIR-WA received the award for its work in "promoting wider understanding of Islam, creating opportunities for religious dialogue, battling civil rights violations and injustices based on religion, and engaging American Muslims in advocacy for the common good."

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CAIR-WA launched its "Interfaith Engagement Project" in 2009. The project was designed to work with mosques across the state of Washington to connect Muslim leaders with leaders of their neighboring churches and synagogues. Since the project's launch, leaders of more than 20 mosques were introduced to rabbis and pastors of more than 30 synagogues and churches, leading to numerous interfaith dialogues, projects and joint social justice ventures.

Faith Action Network was created in 2011 through the union of the Washington Association of Churches and the Lutheran Public Policy Office.