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A Wider Circle
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Its mission is to end poverty through on-the-ground programs and services. It is committed to creating outcomes-based, replicable programs that end poverty for individuals and families, transform communities and create greater opportunity.
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$5,000
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Access Youth
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Its mission is to empower vulnerable youth with the tools they need to stay in school, graduate on time, and avoid the criminal justice system through mediation, restorative justice and positive youth development.
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$5,000
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Anacostia Watershed Society
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Its mission is to protect and restore the Anacostia River by bringing partners and communities together to achieve a clean and safe Anacostia River for the benefit of all living in its watershed and for future generations. Its ultimate goal is to make the Anacostia River swimmable and fishable, in compliance with the federal Clean Water Act, for the health and enjoyment of all community members.
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$5,000
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Arts for the Aging
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Its mission is to engage older adults and their professional and family caregivers in health improvement and life enhancement through regular participation in the multidisciplinary arts.
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$2,000
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Christ House
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Its mission is to provide comprehensive and compassionate health care to homeless men in the District of Columbia, and to assist them in addressing critical issues in their lives to help break the cycle of homelessness. It provides 24-hour nursing care and a range of support services to homeless patients who are too sick to be on the street or in a shelter, but are not sick enough to stay in the hospital. Patients are admitted to Christ House from area hospitals, clinics, shelters, and medical outreach projects. While there, its patients receive 24-hour nursing care, shelter, nutritious meals, case management, addictions counseling, and numerous other services.
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$5,000
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City Blossoms
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Its mission is to foster healthy communities through innovative, community-engaging programming and creative, kid-driven green spaces. Since 2008, City Blossoms has designed, developed, collaborated, and provided programming or trainings for over 100 green spaces throughout Washington D.C. and nationwide. In the District, 2019's efforts provided free and affordable interactive activities and access to green space for 10,065 children and youth citywide and community engagement for 800 volunteers and neighbors. Its primary focus is on under resourced Latino, African-American, and immigrant youth.
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$5,000
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Dance Institute of Washington
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It provides children and youth the opportunity to develop artistically, socially, emotionally and intellectually through ballet and diverse dance. Its commitments to access, equity and artistic excellence distinguish DIW from others. DIW acts as a pipeline for many hundreds more dancers of all backgrounds to advance successfully into the classical ballet and diverse dance industries, inclusive of college/careers.
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$500
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DC Jail and Prison Advocacy Project
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Its mission is to remove barriers to successful community reentry for low-income DC residents with mental illness. JPAP advocates for access to health care and mental health care and comprehensive reentry supports for currently and formerly incarcerated DC adults with mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders who have the highest risk of re-incarceration.
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$500
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DC Youth Orchestra
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It fosters musical development amongst DC Youth. Each year, more than 700 students ages 4.5 to 18 participate in group music lessons, ensemble rehearsals and performances at two citywide program sites and through its tuition-free Children’s Orchestras held at three Title 1 DC public schools.
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$500
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Everyone Wins DC
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Its mission is to help children thrive by building connections through reading providing free books and one-on-one volunteer reading mentors.
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$2,000
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First Tee of Greater Washington
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Its mission is to influence the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf. It offers a safe and positive environment at public golf courses and U.S. military installations during non-school hours where young people are engaged by caring adults, volunteers and coaches. In addition to learning fundamentals of golf, its character education and life skills programs help young people prepare for success in high school, college, and beyond.
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$5,000
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FLOC – For the Love of Children
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Its mission is to provide free educational services beyond the classroom to help under-resourced students succeed from the first grade through college and in their careers. FLOC’s programs help children and youth of color—especially those who will be first-generation college students—benefit from equitable access to the educational opportunities that build community leaders and promise financial stability. It provides the leadership development, educational support systems, and ongoing guidance to help its students build the foundation for a financially secure future.
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$2,000
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Free Minds
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Uses books and creative writing to awaken incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth/adults to their own potential.
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$5,000
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The Friendship Place
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Its mission is to empower low-income families and to foster the optimal development of their young children through educational and support services. There are four organizational goals: 1) close the education functioning gap between low-income Latino children and their peers; 2) provide culturally competent programs and services that enable parents with low English skills to increase their literacy, gain employment skills, and move closer to self-sufficiency; 3) provide the right tools, education and support to help families develop and maintain safe, stable, healthy lifestyles; and 4) provide client-driven services in a timely fashion and in a culturally respectful environment.
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$500
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Girls on the Run
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Its mission is to transform the lives of girls by helping them to discover and activate their limitless potential and boldly pursue their dreams. It promotes running for third-to eighth grade girls in all eight Wards. The target population is preteen girls from economically disadvantaged areas in DC who have limited access to quality youth development and mentoring programs, due primarily to economic barriers
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$2,500
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Hope and a Home
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Its mission is to empower low-income families with children in D.C. to create stable homes of their own and to make lasting changes in their lives. Its mandate is to break the cycle of poverty within families through the programs and services it offers.
Hope and Home serves the most vulnerable families in DC, across its eight wards, who experience poverty and homelessness. Hope and a Home currently serves 220 individuals (61 families) across its programming.
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$5,000
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Iona Senior Center
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Its mission is to support people as they experience the challenges and opportunities of aging.
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$5,000
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La Clinica del Pueblo
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Its mission is “to build a healthy Latino community through culturally appropriate health services, focusing on those most in need.”
Annually, it serves more than 4,700 patients with primary and behavioral health services and reach more than 60,000 with community-based health education touch points.
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$5,000
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Latino Student Fund
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Its mission is to provide opportunities for a strong academic foundation for under-served PreK-12th grade students of Hispanic descent to promote higher education and professional leadership. The organization provides year-round, out-of-school-time programs for low-income, at-risk students and their families. All LSF services are bilingual and offered to the Greater Washington Area community free of charge.
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$5,000
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Liberty’s Promise
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Liberty’s Promise supports young immigrants in need while encouraging them to be active and conscientious American citizens. Our programs aim to make the immigrant experience an affirmative one for young newcomers while instilling in them a sense of pride and support for American ideals of democracy and freedom.
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$500
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Many Languages One Voice
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Builds power in DC immigrant communities whose primary language is not English. They support the people most directly affected to find solutions to the systemic inequities that impact their daily lives.
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$2,000
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Mary House (Casa de Mary)
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Provides stable and nurturing home environment for vulnerable families; and builds customized support programs to build family's independence and self-sufficiency.
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$2,000
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New Futures
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To create educational opportunities for rewarding careers. As the only regional organization supporting young people through shorter term post-secondary credentials, their vision is to support their scholars as they pursue family-sustaining careers, with the goal of closing the gaps in resources, privilege, and education that perpetuates cycles of generational poverty. They provide academic and career support to build a pathway towards the middle-class. They focus on the unique and often overlook opportunity community colleagues and shorter-term degrees provide as a gateway for careers and further education. Support fully or partially support one Scholar’s scholarship award.
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$2,000
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Next Level Tennis
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To drive student athletes into academic circles where opportunities exist for them to obtain collegiate scholarships. Many students are underprivileged and therefore lack the resources to engage in an expensive sport like tennis. They support students who have the desire, discipline, drive and enthusiasm to compete locally, nationally and internationally.
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$2,000
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One Common Unity
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They break the cycles of poverty and violence and build compassionate, healthy, communities through the transformative power of art, music and youth education.
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$500
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Open Book Foundation
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Bring authors, illustrators and their books to DC-area students in low-income settings to spark a love of reading.
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$2,000
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Richard Wright Public Charter School
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Public Charter School located in SE DC, serving students who primarily come from under-served neighborhoods in grades 8 through 12. The School is committed to engaging and transforming students’ lives, “one student at a time.” Through hands-on instruction and a focus on media arts and journalism that connects students to the classics and modern languages and a strong writing focus that empowers them to tell their own stories and the stories of their communities.
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$5,000
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Salvation Army
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The primary purpose of Salvation Army programs is to empower people to identify the root causes of the poverty and homelessness they experience, to break those cycles, and achieve their individual goals and aspirations.
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$5,000
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Shakespeare Theatre Company
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To create, preserve, and promote classic theatre, ambitious enduring plays with universal themes, for all audiences and to make their theatre accessible to non-traditional audiences.
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$2,000
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Suited for Change
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Empowers low-income women by increasing their employment and job retention potential. They are the DC area’s leading nonprofit for women in need for professional attire, mentoring, and job-readiness education. Through their services, they help women achieve financial independence.
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$5,000
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Teatro de la Luna
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To promote Hispanic culture and foster cross-cultural understanding between the Spanish and English–speaking communities in greater Washington, DC
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$500
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Teens Run
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Empowers underserved youth to envision and achieve personal goals through youth mentoring and distance running program.
Their program integrates youth mentoring, social emotional learning, and distance running to promote the health of at-risk DC youth.
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$5,000
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The Family Place
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To empower low-income families and to foster the optimal development of their young children through educational and support services.
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$5,000
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The Theatre Lab
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Transform lives through theatre education. Creates a high-visibility opportunity for marginalized individuals in DC to elevate their voices, stories, and art, with the support of local arts organizations.
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$5,000
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UNA-NCA
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To increase public understanding of the work and values of the United Nations, encourage constructive U.S. leadership in strengthening the UN, and preparing the next generation of global citizens.
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$5,000
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Washington Bach Consort
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To perform the music of Bach and his contemporaries to the highest academic standards; share the joy of Bach’s music by broadening audiences in the nation’s capital, nurture the appreciation of Bach’s music through education and community outreach activities, and interpret the music of Bach for audiences today.
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$2,000
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Wesley Housing Development Corporation
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For everyone in the Washington, DC region to have a safe, quality, affordable home, serving as a foundation to thrive, and have a place of value in the community. This guides their mission “of opening to brighter futures for the most vulnerable community members by creating and operating healthy, supportive, stable, affordable housing communities.”
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$5,000
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Woodley House
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Helps men and women with severe mental illness to live full and healthy lives in the community with dignity and respect. Offers a range of residential housing options.
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$5,000
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Total:
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$126,000
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