On Tuesday, 30+ WIN leaders turned out at the DC Water Ward 8 Town Hall meeting to ask DC Water GM George Hawkins to commit to a pathway to jobs for DC residents. Even more leaders turned up to the Ward 4 Town Hall on Thursday, establishing a strong tone in the lead up to […]
WIN leaders have been hard at work fighting for vital services that are at stake for ourselves and our neighbors. Some vital human services programs were cut in the FY13 budget, may be cut in the FY14 budget, or are dangerously underfunded. WIN leaders have stood up and taken action — letting Councilmember Graham, the […]
This morning’s Washington Post had a story on DC’s homeless families with this key pull-quote by Marta Beresin, staff attorney for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. “We could end homelessness; we just need the political will of politicians and the funding to do it.” Image courtesy of the Washington Post
WIN organized parent, teacher, and community teams in 25 schools across the city and secured a commitment from DC Schools Superintendent Paul Vance to make priority building repairs identified by the WIN teams. In March 2001, Dr. Vance appeared before 450+ WIN leaders at Moten ES in Ward # 8 to be publicly graded for […]
It used to be hard to even use the sidewalk in much of Anacostia. In 2005, leaders at six WIN member institutions in Ward 8 organized to make basic neighborhood mobility possible and engaged in a series of local actions with Councilmember Marion Barry and executive agency heads. In April of that year, St. Thomas […]
In June, Twenty WIN leaders from Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ turned out to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the new William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Neighborhood Library. The ribbon cutting was the culmination of a multi-year WIN campaign to rebuild a library in the Bellevue neighborhood. The campaign grew out of a 2008 house meeting […]
Parents and grandparents at JC Nalle and CW Harris elementary schools in Ward 7 feared for the safety of their children walking to and from school. Deacon Sims from Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, who lived across the street from CW Harris, told of fearing for his family and the children in the neighborhood because there was […]
Over the past 16+ years, the Washington Interfaith Network has identified, trained, and developed thousands of leaders whose organizing has produced improvements in schools, contributed to the creation of hundreds of units of affordable housing, new recreation centers, parks, libraries, and facilitated jobs for DC residents. WIN uses a no-nonsense process for achieving real political change. Members […]
Between now and 2025 DC Water will spend the remainder of $2.6 billion fixing DC’s outdate sewer and stormwater systems. This project, mandated through a federal court order, is being financed almost exclusively by DC residents. By 2019 the average ratepayer’s monthly bill is expected to increase to over $100. As a city it’s time […]
80 Leaders from 21 institutions gathered at St. Johns Episcopal Lafayette Square, the historic “church of the presidents.” Rector the Rev. Luis Leon, who gave the benediction at that Presidential Inauguration, welcomed and gave us our opening prayer. At the meeting we: Elected a new WIN strategy team, Discussed the budget of the organization, Ratified next steps […]