Our Partners

Featured Partners

We are committed to partners who pursue creative solutions to inequity and justice.

Funding Priorities

Dreaming Out Loud

Dreaming Out Loud is a food justice nonprofit working to rebuild equitable, community-based food systems in Washington, DC’s metro region by increasing access to healthy food, supporting marginalized local farmers and food entrepreneurs, and creating economic opportunities in historically underserved neighborhoods. Its Marion Barry Avenue Market & Café in Ward 8 serves as a vibrant community hub that offers fresh produce, affordable meals, educational programming, and space for food businesses and events, helping address long-standing food access disparities while building and bolstering the community.

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Martha's Table

Martha’s Table supports strong children, strong families, and strong communities in Washington, DC. Through a community co-design approach, the organization expands access to healthy food, quality education, family resources, and economic supports so children and families can thrive. Rooted in deep neighborhood partnerships, Martha’s Table follows the leadership and lived experience of community members to shape solutions grounded in local priorities and strengths. Through its Community Impact Fund, the organization invests unrestricted dollars in grassroots nonprofits in Ward 8, fueling community-led organizations that are already driving impact and expanding their reach.

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GWCF's Partnership to End Homelessness

The Partnership to End Homelessness mobilizes philanthropy, government, nonprofit service providers, advocates, and business leaders to align resources and strategies to ensure homelessness in Washington, DC is rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Led by the Greater Washington Community Foundation (GWCF), the partnership aligns private and public resources to expand affordable and supportive housing, strengthen homeless services, and advance housing justice across the District.

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Tzedek DC

Tzedek DC safeguards the legal and financial rights of Washington, DC residents with low incomes who are facing debt collection, consumer protection challenges, and credit barriers that threaten family stability and economic security. Guided by the Jewish imperative, “justice, justice you shall pursue,” Tzedek DC provides free legal services, financial counseling, community education, and systemic advocacy to advance fairness and economic justice.

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Peace for DC

Peace for DC is building an innovative system of community-driven public safety aimed at eradicating gun violence in Washington, DC. Its Peace Academy trains the hyperlocal violence interrupter workforce on evidence-based violence intervention strategies and equips them with the tools and support needed to heal from trauma. Peace for DC's HEAL DC program (Healthy Empowered Achieving Leaders for DC) provides transformational life coaching for those at the highest risk of experiencing gun violence on either side.

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Washington Housing Conservancy

The Washington Housing Conservancy fuses commercial real estate expertise with a social impact mission to create and preserve long-term, sustainable housing affordability. The Conservancy disrupts inequities in the highly competitive housing market with an innovative model that prevents displacement and promotes opportunity and wealth building.

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New Israel Fund

The New Israel Fund seeks to safeguard human and civil rights while cultivating a robust foundation for shared society. New Israel Fund seeds Israel's most effective NGOs, building coalitions among those seeking to advance social justice, equality, and democracy in Israel.

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Diverse City Fund

The Diverse City Fund activates community-driven philanthropy to support changemakers, movement builders, and community organizers of color in their quest to explore solutions for social change. By investing financial and social capital in areas that have less access to traditional funding sources, the Diverse City Fund is shaking up philanthropy in DC.

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