DC Childcare Collective

Empower DC: The District of Columbia Grassroots Empowerment Project’s mission is to enhance and improve the self-advocacy of low income and working people in the District of Columbia in order to bring about sustained self improvement in their quality of life. Take action for affordable housing, child care and government accountability with Empower DC.

One DC: ONE DC (formerly Manna CDC) was founded in 1997 in the midst of this neighborhood change. From early on, ONE DC’s approach to community development addressed structural causes of poverty and injustice, an orientation that stemmed from deep analysis of race, power, and the economic, political, and social forces at work in Shaw and the District. As a result, ONE DC’s community development work centers on popular education, community organizing, and alternative economic development projects.

WEAVE: Women Empowered Against Violence works closely with adult and teen survivors of relationship violence and abuse, providing an innovative range of legal, counseling, economic and educational services that leads survivors to utilize their inner and community resources, achieve safety for themselves and their children and live empowered lives.

LEDC: The Latino Economic Development Corporation is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation founded in 1991. LEDC’s mission is to improve the wealth-building capacity of low- and moderate-income Latinos and other under served communities in the Washington area They achieve this mission by pursuing four objectives, which are to: Increase the number and strength of small businesses; Increase home ownership; Preserve affordable housing and prevent tenant displacement; and Strategically target all of LEDC’s services to revitalize the economies and appearance of the neighborhoods where our target population lives and works.

Women’s Collective: The mission of The Women’s Collective (TWC) is to meet the self-defined needs of women, girls and their families living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS, reducing barriers to care and strengthening their network of support and services. As a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization led by women with HIV and their allies/advocates, TWC works to fulfill its mission by:

• Providing services that are peer-led, woman- and girl-focused, family-centered, and culturally appropriate.
• Providing a safe, non-judgmental environment for all women, girls and families.
• Providing a voice for women, girls and their families who are living with or at-risk for HIV/AIDS through advocacy at the local, national, and international levels.
• Creating partnerships among service providers, governmental, non-governmental and private entities.

API Domestic Violence Resource Project
DC Rape Crisis Center
Unite Here