DCist: Casa Ruby Plans Expansion To Serve Southeast’s LGBTQ Community
Ruby Corado looked around the joyous party in the living room of a split-level apartment in Langston Terrace, and her heart broke.
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Washington Blade: Casa Ruby plans 2019 expansion to S.E. Washington
Casa Ruby, a local 24-hour drop-in/respite center for LGBT people, plans to expand with a new location to southeast Washington in 2019, Ruby Corado, its namesake and executive director, said this week. She hopes to open The Southeast D.C.…
Washington Post: At SOME, a program called ABLE: ‘This right here is very good therapy’
Dwayne Morris can draw anything he can see. And he can draw anything he can imagine. On a recent morning, he was imagining Christmas.
Fox 5: Pay It Forward: DC woman turns grief from son’s murder into opportunity to give to…
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - A DC woman is turning her grief from her son's murder into an opportunity to give to the homeless.
NBC4: DC Officials Quietly Alter Plan to Ease Water Bills to Avoid Lawsuit
Washington, D.C., officials have quietly altered a $13 million plan to ease water bills after a former water board member threatened to sue, calling the plan unfair and unconstitutional.
Washington Informer: Family Overcomes Homelessness, Employment Woes
A typical late-afternoon scenario unfolds at a D.C. day care center as parents arrive to pick up their children.
Washington Post: D.C. backs away from special water rate relief for churches
D.C. officials have backed away from a proposal that would have made it easier for churches to qualify for a break on their water rates than other nonprofits, after critics said the policy could have been unconstitutional.
WAMU: New Program Offers Southeast D.C. Families Discounted Rides To Grocery Stores
Martha’s Table, a local food access and education nonprofit, is teaming up with ride-hailing company Lyft to combat a glaring grocery store access issue in Wards 7 and 8. Dubbed the Lyft Grocery Access Program, the initiative will provide…
City Paper: Lyft and Martha’s Table Partner to Get Ward 7 and 8 Residents to Grocery Stores
To qualify for the six-month pilot program, families must have a child enrolled in one of seven elementary schools.
Barbara Harman: Why giving locally matters more than ever
Now that Thanksgiving has passed and what has traditionally been called “the giving season” gets underway, I find myself wondering what local philanthropy is going to look like in the months and years ahead. In a time of relentless breaking…
The Georgetown Voice: The GOOD Guys: Former Georgetown Football Players Take On Poverty In D.C.
In the fall of 2015, the House majority leader, a conservative pollster, and three Georgetown football players walked into a bar. Disgruntled Rep. Kevin McCarthy and his friend Frank Luntz, the pollster best known for coining the term…
Washington Post: In D.C., water fees tap into tension over race, gentrification and the First…
Of municipal government’s many mundane functions, perhaps none is less attention-grabbing than the collection of water and sewer fees.
On Giving Tuesday, Catalogue for Philanthropy highlights recent release of annual Giving Guide to…
Since 1983 Shepherd’s Table, a nonprofit in downtown Silver Spring, has provided daily home-cooked meals and other vital resources for low-income communities and homeless individuals. By 2016, demand for its services increased — and the…
WTOP: DC group delivers more than 8,000 lbs. of turkey to help feed sick adults and kids
Staff and volunteers with Food & Friends prepared 8,520 pounds of turkey, 1,065 pounds of roasted potatoes, 1,065 pounds of cornbread stuffing, 94 gallons of gravy and 5,680 dinner rolls. Oh and 1,420 pies. The meals go toward sick…
City Paper: Give It Up, D.C. 2018 Giving Guide
As 2018 draws to a close and we pause to reflect on all that happened this year, the memories can be daunting. From battles over the Supreme Court to elevated anti-immigrant and racist sentiment, it became hard at times to focus on the good…
WAMU: Want To Volunteer On Thanksgiving? Get In Line.
Central Union Mission, which runs a shelter in D.C. for men experiencing homelessness, serves about 500 Thanksgiving meals each year. But in the past, they’ve had just as many volunteers as people eating, and that can make things a little…
Local nonprofit aims to help DC’s Central American community with blend of direct services and…
After two decades, Karla still recalls traveling through the desert with her brother and aunt in 1998 on their way from El Salvador, reliant on a “coyote” to get the three of them where they needed to go. Her mother was already in…
East of the River: Saving Lives with Narcan: The demand for the lifesaving spray grows as overdose…
Quietly parked on a side street, somewhere between St. Teresa of Avila Church and Ketcham Elementary School, the Family and Medical Counseling Services (www.fmcsinc.org) health van waited to serve neighbors and visitors of Ward 8. Tyrone…
Washington Post: Washington Ballet is struggling with empty seats and a $3 million debt. What will…
Two years after replacing its successful, longtime artistic director with a celebrated ballerina who had never run a company, the Washington Ballet is struggling to close a $3 million debt and attract audiences to its dramatic change in…
WAMU: D.C. Housing Program Opens Doors For Homeless LGBTQ Youth
It’s six months after moving day, and Tyreem Fosque’s small apartment in Northeast Washington is only now starting to feel complete. “This is my humble studio,” Fosque says during a quick tour over the summer, at the three-month mark.…