WIN organized, in partnership with Groundswell (formerly DC Project), nearly 40 institutions in two Coop-Community Electricity Purchase, saving the groups a total of 12%-14% (over $300,000) on their annual energy bills, while also investing in clean energy. One hundred percent of the green energy purchased through Renewable Energy Credits came from local D.C. sources, ensuring that the purchase from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This story is being reproduced for this blog from a brochure WIN published two years ago. It is our home celebrating this victory along the way will ready us for the fight ahead for supportive housing. Ernestine Ballesteros remembers the Great Depression. She was only five years old when her family was evicted from their home. […]
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 […]
Eight years ago, Martin Trimble, then WIN’s lead organizer, challenged Juanita Hutchinson to name the thing that she would change if she had all the power in the world. Access to affordable homes in her Deanwood Heights neighborhood. No question about it. “I grew up in this area, I was born in this area, and I […]
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 […]