From an email:
“Tour of Homes to End Homelessness
Sunday, October 28th
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
CASA Crestwood is an annual neighborhood tour of homes raising funds for the prevention of homelessness in DC, giving you the opportunity to scratch the itch and get inside some of the dreamy homes of Crestwood.
Read more about the amazing organization that you will be supporting by attending CASA Crestwood, Thrive DC.
$20 in advance – who doesn’t love to save?
$25 the day of – more goes to Thrive
via GoFundMe
“Dear PoPville,
I’m writing today in the hopes that you will want to help out the Benning Court Dream Team, a youth dance group for children at the Benning Courts Housing Complex on Benning Road NE. The team has performed at numerous events around DC, including the annual 5th District holiday-party, Beat the Streets, Rosedale Basketball Classic and National Night Out. The dance team has grown in recent years and is raising money to buy new uniforms. Please consider donating to help our neighbors at Benning Court.
The recent violence in this area has been widely reported, but there has not been nearly enough coverage about the people who are just trying to live their lives and better their community amidst this violence.”
12th and Jackson Street, NE
From an email:
“For the month of October, Shannan Troncoso, co-owner of Brookland’s Finest, has teamed up with local female-owned distillery, Republic Restoratives, for a weekly series of prix fixe distiller dinners, with a portion of the proceeds going to support mobile mammograms for underserved women in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Starting October 2nd, and every Tuesday in October, Brookland’s Finest will offer this $35 three-course seasonal distiller dinner menu with accompanying Republic Restoratives pink-themed cocktails.
A portion of the proceeds from each distiller dinner will be donated to the Mammovan, a GW Cancer Center program which provides mobile cancer screenings to women in underserved communities in DC. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds from October’s draft cocktail, a pink ‘Civic Cosmopolitan,’ will be donated to support the efforts of the Mammovan. On October 2nd, the Mammovan will be parked at Brookland’s Finest offering tours and information. (more…)
From an email:
“Hi friends! I’m sure you’ve heard about the devastating fire at Arther Capper Senior Building in Navy Yard last week. My friend Emi and I are organizing a fundraiser this Thursday, September 27th from 5pm–10pm at Mission in Navy Yard, and we would like to cordially invite you and your friends to help raise money to assist these seniors meet their immediate needs!
Arthur Capper Senior Building Fundraiser
Thursday, September 27th
Mission Navy Yard (1221 Van Street, SE)
*The event is family friendly until 8:30 pm.
We will be accepting cash, checks, Harris Teeter gift cards, and credit card donations on site, with 100% of donations going directly to the Capitol Hill Community Foundation, who is coordinating and collecting donations for the residents. (more…)
courtesy Fuzzy Panda Recording Company
“Dear PoPville,
Cleveland Park’s (presumably) only record label, Fuzzy Panda Recording Company, has released a benefit compilation for RAICES. The compilation is available here.
From the Fuzzy Panda website:
This compilation benefits the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES). RAICES’s Legal Representation, Advocacy, and Education Project provides universal representation for released unaccompanied children in Texas. (more…)
From Council Member Silverman’s Office:
“We were saddened to hear that this community haven was targeted and vandalized too. Here’s the GoFundMe page to help Check It get a new window.”
The GoFundMe says:
“Around 6pm this morning a naked woman screeming homophbic gestures threw a brick through the Check It store and community center double pain window and door.
This is devastating because if the insurance pays for it there will be a huge increase because of the stores location.
The building has been a safe haven for the “LGBT Youth”, “Returned Citizens” and community as a whole. Your support is need so “Check It” can secure its building and get back to the great work that so many have benefited from. (more…)
via Bakers’ Lounge
“Dear PoPville,
I know you have posted about Catherine’s The Bakers’ Lounge before. She had a spot, got robbed a number of times, had to move, found a new location, lost the new location, got it back. Found money to renovate. Then her contractor left without finishing the job. She has had a long run of bad luck. Through it all she keeps baking. She’s made a ton of my children’s birthday cakes, and pies for Thanksgiving, you name it. She hosts a toddler and mommies tea for free once a week. And donates baked goods to lots of events.
Anyway, DCRA inspected her location yesterday, and shut her down because of the minor things that had not been completed by the contractor, who ghosted her.
She needs $2000 to finish the work. I set up a GoFundMe page for her here.
She and her company are a valued member of the NEDC community and I hope we can come together to save her shop.”
Kingfisher is located at 1414 14th Street, NW just south of P Street in Logan Circle.
Christian Broder, via GoFundMe
From an email:
“The Georgetown Events family is devastated by the heartless and cowardly act of violence against our beloved friend, partner and colleague, Christian. [partner/general manager at Millie’s in Spring Valley] He is the loving father of 9 month old Frances, the husband of my wife’s sister Molly and the son of the wonderful Broder family of Atlanta. He is in critical condition in intensive care fighting so hard to live. The staff at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta has worked around the clock since Sunday performing one miraculous surgery after another to keep Christian alive. Please pray for him. A gofundme page has been set www.gofundme.com/supporting-christian-broder
–Bo Blair President Georgetown Events”
From an email:
“The DC chapter of Lady Parts Justice will host DC’s 2nd annual Pro-Choice Prom: A Midsummer Right’s Dream at 8pm on Friday, July 13th at Rock & Roll Hotel. This year’s event will feature prizes, a silent auction from local DC businesses, crowning of a Prom Court, and educational booths staffed by members of various DC-based reproductive rights organizations.
Entertainment will include: (more…)