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  • DC Fair Budget Coalition Briefing: Focus on Youth

    Our most vulnerable residents are facing the toughest of times.  Join the DC Fair Budget Coalition for this breakfast briefing on how unemployment, underemployment, lack of affordable housing and food insecurity are affecting our region's youth.                                            

    Friday, March 12, 2010
    9:30am - 11:00am
    1350 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
    Washington, DC





     
  • Now Accepting Applications for Neighbors in Need Fund Grants
    Now through 4:00pm on March 31, 2010 we are accepting grant applications from nonprofit direct-service providers in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Grant awards of up to $25,000 will support food, clothing, shelter and other emergency services to eligible nonprofits across the region.
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      Racial Diversity Collaborative: Report Release Event
      March 31, 2010
      9:00am – 11:30am
      Bridgeway Community Church
      9189 Red Branch Road
      Columbia, MD
      The first major study on nonprofit leadership diversity will be released in conjunction with a panel discussion. Keynote  speaker: Ralph Smith, Executive Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation.

    RSVP:  http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e2rmp5oe010363db

     
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      February E-Newsletter Now Available
      Read the latest issue of our monthly newsletter, Making Connections.  This edition highlights 
      our recent Partnership for Equity grants, profiles grantee the Asian Pacific American Legal
      Resource Center, and introduces two Community Foundation donors.

Our Latest Blog Post

  • Healthcare Reform: It Starts with Me...Right?
  • Terri Lee Freeman, President   While on vacation I went to the doctor and got results back from some lab work. To my chagrin, the doctor boldly stated that my LDL (lousy) cholesterol level was four points shy of the level they typically recommend medication for. The offset, in his opinion, was that my HDL (happy) cholesterol levels were higher than normal. “However,” he said, “we need to keep an eye on those numbers.” As my mind raced, thinking of the potential for being on some medication for potentially the rest of my life, I was thankful that I had insurance coverage that would provide some buffer from the cost of monthly prescription medication. Then I thought about the 40 million or so Americans who don’t have that “safety net.”  
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