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 […]
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 […]
In 1999, WIN worked with Mayor Williams to increase city enforcement at the illegal trash-transfer station operated by Browning-Ferris Industries and Consolidated Waste Industries at 12th and Brentwood Road, NE. For the previous 18 months, WIN organized with its member Israel Baptist Church and leaders in the surrounding community to close an illegal trash-transfer station […]
Growing up in the Parkview neighborhood of Ward 1, Ebenezer Osanyingbemi has always had a home away from home: the recreation center. “The Rec is the hub of community life in my neighborhood. It’s where I learned to play basketball at five years old; where I met most of my friends; where I go to relax. I’ve […]
With all of the development that’s been occurring in downtown DC over the past decade, very little of it provides family-friendly public space. Being downtown with kids makes the possibility of playing in the sunshine a near impossibility. In the fall of 2011 and spring of 2012, leaders from WIN member congregation Calvary Baptist and […]
Frustrated with the state of sidewalks in the Bellevue Neighborhood, in 2000 WIN leaders from Covenant Baptist UCC supported by other Ward 8 leaders planned a community walk through with local elected officials. During the walk, WIN leaders identified problem sidewalks, alleyways and crosswalks and got commitments to have them fixed. As a result of […]
WIN leaders at Dunbar Senior High School were frustrated because they felt the city cared enough to condemn the dilapidated and unsafe track at Dunbar but not enough to fix it. Leaders could not abide it any longer and began to organize, engaging more parents, students, and alumni around their vision. They fought for updated […]