Africare
440 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20001-1935
(202) 462-3614 | Africare.org
View message fro m Africare's President Julius E Coles
Africare works in partnership with African communities to achieve healthy and productive societies. Africare's approach places communities at the center of development activities. Africare believes that only through strong communities can Africa feed itself, appropriately exploit its natural resources, educate, care and protect its children, promote the economic well being of African people and live in peace.
Please file a media release form with Africare if you are interested in making video or audio recordings of ANC meeting held in their facility.
Alliance of Concerned Men
2905 11th Street NW, Washington DC 20001
202/986-6200 | AllianceOfConcernedMen.org
The Alliance of Concerned Men seeks to work directly with the missing, yet common and essential element in an "at-risk" and /or "in-crisis" youth's life — the incarcerated parent. ACM provides guidance interventions to building positive life skills through its one-on-one counseling, programs, group sessions, and community outreach.
ANC5C Listserv
From Frozen Tropics:
ANC5B Introduces Google Group
Tuesday, October 30, 2007It's new, so there are not really any posts yet, but you can still join the group and ask questions, let Commissioners know of any concerns, ect. We're excited about this because this listserv should facilitate easier communication for the entire ANC.
Asbury Dwellings Tenants Association Inc.
1616 Marion Street NW
Washington DC 20001
Meets the First Friday of each month at 6:30pm
Earl M Storm (right), President, (202) 986-1108
Key to running a good meeting filled with seniors with divergent point of view so that everyone can come to consensus in the end:
"You gotta add some humor to it ... and you gotta let everyone talk.”
— Earl M Storm
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
C.B. Powell Building, 525 Bryant Street, Suite C142, Washington, DC 20059
(202) 865-0053 | ASALH.org
The mission of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is to promote, research, preserve, interpret and disseminate information about Black life, history and culture to the global community.
Binformed [Shaw/ANC2C02 newsgroup]
The Shaw news group at Binformed discusses local issues such as dog parks and crime spots and features audio visual clips as well as restaurant reviews.
Blagden Alley And Naylor Court Blog
Blagden Alley and Naylor Court's 2008 entry into the Shaw blogosphere.
Blagden Alley Association
The online home of the beautiful Blagden Alley Association in Washington, DC. We are the association representing the West Side of the current convention center.
(Who knows in ten years!) Mass to RI, 9 to 11.
Bread for the City
1525 Seventh Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001 | (202) 265-2400 | BreadForTheCity.org
George Jones is Executive Director with Bread for the City. Bread for the City provides vulnerable residents of the District, with holistic services, including food, clothing, medical care, legal and social services, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. Bread for the City is located right here in ANC2C02 at 1525 7th Street NW.
Bread for the City is full of very nice and hard working volunteers and staff members, like our contact Adrienne Ammerman, and Curtis Mozie (left).
Calvary Shelter
928 5th St NW, Washington, DC 20001 | (202) 783-6651 |
Cary Silverman
Catholic Community Services Mulumba House
621 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001 | (202) 234-2399 | EmmausServices.org
A transitional housing program for men recovering from substance abuse and/or mental illness; must be 18 years or older and at least 30 days clean. The Program emphasizes employment services and offers case management, addictions counseling, employment counseling and linkage to community services.
Chinese Cultural Center
616 H Street, NW, 2nd Floor, Washington DC | CCCC-DC.org
The Chinatown Community Cultural Center offers members access to a continuously-expanding reference library (as well as coffee and tea service, while you are reading). Members will be invited to certain events, such as lectures, performances or discussion groups that will be for members only, and will have the first choice for seating at the open events.
Citizens Organized Patrol Efforts [ COPE ]
COPE was founded in 1988 by Mahdi Leroy Thorpe Jr and Imam Taalib ’Abdus Samad to work with the DC Police to eradicate crime and drugs in DC. COPE, since 1988, has reportedly shut down 56 documented crack houses and hosted over 120 anti-drug rallies in Washington DC. COPE works to rehabilitate those on drugs and sellling drugs [by encouraging them to follow the teachings of] Islam.
Mahdi LeRoy Joseph Thorpe Jr
Registered Agent
1704 5TH Street NW, Washington, DC 20001
Domestic non-profit organization.
(Initial Date of Registration: 8/28/1989)
Columbia Heights / Shaw Family Support Collaborative | Green Team
1722 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20009
(202) 483-4547 | CHSFSC.org
The Columbia Heights/Shaw Family Support Collaborative (CH/S FSC) is a nonprofit organization of more than 40 community service agencies, resident groups and neighborhood leaders. We’ve worked in our community since 1996.
Charlie Whitaker
Community Partnership Manager
Green Team Coordinator
Convention Center Community Association [CCCA]
Local residents are invited to join this free public results-driven discussion and action group. Meetings will be held on the last Tuesdays of the month at The Kennedy Recreation Center, 1401 7th Street NW. ALL ARE WELCOME.
Check for meeting updates and announcements here and on the ShawNeighborhood Yahoo! Group. Download January 29th meeting announcement here.
DC Compass [online video mag]
An ANC2C02 online only, video only magazine.
A local anc2c02&You! advertiser and supporter.
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DC Employment Justice Center
1525 7th Street, NW. Both from 6-8pm | (202) 828-9675 | DCEJC.org
Provides free legal advice for all employment law issues, including violence in the workplace. Workers' Rights Clinic offered on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month at Bread for the City every Wednesday night.
Downtown Neighborhood Association [DNA]
The Downtown Neighborhood Association in Washington, DC, is a newly-formed entity whose mission is to develop and create a vibrant downtown residential character and balance between the residents, business owners, galleries, entertainment community and tourists. We celebrate the diversity of our community, promote the general interests of the residents and property owners, represent neighborhood interests before regulatory and administrative boards and to engage in other activities to protect the interests of the community.
Our monthly meetings will be on the second Tuesday of the month at the U.S. Naval Memorial Heritage Center, 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW.
East Central Civic Association
[ No public Web site despite owning a formidable computer collection — funded in part by ANC2C and its constituents’ tax dollars and intended for the benefit of the community. The computers — many owned for more than a year — by this organization are supposedly available for public use, but no one outside of the organization's leaders has reported reliable public access to these machines]
One of the oldest neighborhood associations in the District, the ECCA includes the area from N Street up to Rhode Island Avenue and from New Jersey Avenue to 7th Street, NW. Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month (the second Monday if the first is a holiday) at Third Baptist Church, 5th and Q Streets NW, at 7pm.
Al Hajj Mahdi Leroy J. Thorpe, Jr., President (202) 387-1596, MLThorpe2c02 ]at[ aol.com
Lillian Gordon, Treasurer (202) 483-6215
Eloise Wahab, Public Relations (202) 332-5275
Warren Johnson, Sgt. Arms (220 332-0065
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