Who WE Are

Our Mission

Alefba Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to the Iranian and Persian culture. 

Alefba Group was established in 2019 to enrich the community’s cultural scene by celebrating and promoting Persian and Iranian culture through offering events, programs, and activities that highlight and celebrate the rich culture of Iranian heritage, and the larger Persian speaking regions of the world. Our goal is also to serve the local community of Washington state, in particular the local Iranian community, via educational, social, and charitable activities and programs. 

Some of Our Purposes

  • introduce communities to Iranian and Persian art and literature including, but not limited to, music, poetry, painting, architecture, performing arts and cinema.
  • organize Iranian festivals and celebrations such as Nowruz, Yalda, Mehregan and Sadeh.
  • provide educational and entertaining programs targeting members of certain demographics such as children, young adults, career professional, and seniors.
  • foster establishment of regular discussion groups on subjects of mutual interests amongst members of the Organization or the communities;
  • create networking opportunities among individuals and organizations in the community.
  • broadcast of non-religious and non-political educational, entertaining and news content via written, audio, and visual media.
  • introduce the general public to contributions of Iranians and Persians to social, natural, and physical sciences in the past and encourage such contributions in the present and the future.

You can refer to our Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws for more details.

Our structure

Alefba Groups consists of dedicated members who believe in the concept of family and that is how they work together on various activities for the benefit of the public. These activities are divided into multiple committees, each symbolizing a letter in our alphabet (Alefba means alphabet in the Persian language).

We currently have the following permanent committees:

and the following provisional committees:

Alefba Group is classified by IRS as a Public Charity under the IRC section 509(a)(2) and is exempt from federal income tax under IRC section 501(c)(3). You can find the IRS approval letter here. 

You can find the original IRS letter and Alefba’s Employer Identification Number (EIN) here and more information on IRS website.