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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 1999, WIN secured $15 million in the District’s FY 2000 budget to fund after-school and other youth programs city-wide. Mayor Williams proposed and the Council appropriated $15 million in new monies during FY 2000 to support after-school and other youth programs city-wide. This money was a step towards fulfilling his pledge to the 20,000+ […]
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 […]
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 […]