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 […]
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 […]
In 2012, WIN renewed its efforts to engage voters in the pews, at community centers and through door knocking with a goal of engaging tens thousands of voters around the WIN agenda. WIN trained hundreds of leaders, invested in its online organizing infrastructure – obtaining the most modern online voter engagement databases and tools in […]
A $400 million surplus is great news for our city. We hope our elected officials will choose a balanced approach that balances fiscal responsibility and human responsibility. Jeff Krehbiel, Pastor at Church of the Pilgrims and WIN co-chair, says, “It would be a missed opportunity to to put all of the surplus into a […]
Earlier this week, the DC Fiscal Policy Institute released some interesting analysis of the pending surplus from the FY12 DC city budget. Ed Lazere writes, “The surplus will be at least $140 million, and some speculate it will be as large as $400 million. The surplus will create an opportunity to make a number of […]
After successfully organizing to develop 90+ units of affordable senior housing and 15,000 s.f. of community space with at the historic MM. Washington Career High School on O St; WIN leaders at Mt. Lebanon Baptist began to work to ensure the project brings jobs to the neighborhood. Residents in Truxton Circle have experienced devastating unemployment over the last decade […]
Last night, Over 40 leaders came together to engage around the specifics of public policies that would yield living wage jobs and affordable housing. With proposals for the DC FY14 budget taking shape, WIN leaders are working hard to understand the needs of the whole district and the policy options available to us to […]
Washington, DC is one of the most expensive housing markets in the country. 40,000 DC households are on the subsidized housing waiting list. Many of WIN’s leaders have been priced out of the neighborhoods they grew up in and are unable to afford market-rate housing prices. One of WIN’s most important tools the fight for […]