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The Commonwealth Institute, a grantee of The Community Foundation, released a report Under the Hood: The State of Working Northern Virginia, a report that highlights significant challenges in Northern Virginia as the region works to recover from the recession including growing income inequality, ongoing joblessness and significant increases in poverty.

Under the Hood: The State of Working Northern Virginia

The Community Foundation for Prince George's County, an affiliate of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, celebrated community civic action at the Civic Leadership Awards. Check out our photo album online here.

Civic Leadership Awards

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    Compass Pro Bono Consulting Services: Applications Now Available!
     Compass provides strategic pro bono consulting services to nonprofit organizations. Compass uses teams of volunteers, most of whom have an MBA from a top business school, to provide consulting assistance in the areas of: Board Development; Funding Strategies; Strategic Alignment; Strategic Planning; and Strategic Partnerships and Mergers. The client application is available at: http://www.compassdc.org/nonprofits/2012-2013-client-application/. To learn more, please come to an information session May 2nd. For more information and to RSVP, please email Georgia Katinas at gkatinas@compassdc.org.

  • Making Connections November, 2011 CREATING YOUR LEGACY...Read our January Newsletter

    What do you want your legacy to be? In this issue of Making Connections, we profile two families who have set up donor-advised funds at The Community Foundation that honor the memory and wishes of their parents by continuing the family tradition of philanthropy. Read their stories and learn more about how we can help you with planned giving. 

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  • Funders and States Gather Together for a Race to the Top Philanthropy Conference

    Seventy funders from eleven Race to the Top (RTTT) states and the District of Columbia gathered together with interested private-sector stakeholders at the Race to the Top Philanthropy Conference in Washington, DC this week.  Co-hosted by The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, Harold K. L. Castle Foundation, Grantmakers for Education and U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Strategic Partnerships. The three-day meeting focused on creating ways for foundations to contribute to the long-term success of RTTT and statewide education reform.

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  • Investing in Education, Workforce Development and the Safety Net Will Close the Income Gap
  • Terri Lee Freeman, President

    By  Terri Lee Freeman
    President, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region

    Ours is a region of breathtaking wealth and heartbreaking poverty. A new report released earlier this month by the DC Fiscal Policy Institute confirms just how large that income inequity gap really is. The analysis, which focuses on the District in particular, reveals that the richest five percent of households have an average income of $473,000, the highest among the 50 largest cities in the United States. Meanwhile, the poorest 20 percent of District households have incomes averaging under $10,000. Income disparity in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs is increasing as well.

    In other words, while our region's economy has led to economic growth and prosperity for many on the middle and higher rungs of the ladder, residents on the bottom of the income scale largely are being left behind.

    This is hardly a surprise to those of us who are involved with philanthropy. As one of the leading funders of nonprofits in the Washington region, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region is committed to promoting equity, access and opportunity for all residents of our community by investing in effective nonprofits. If anything, the new report only reinforces what we see every day through the hundreds of organizations funded by our community of givers.

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