HIV/AIDS | District Launches HIV-Test Campaign (WaPo, 8/29) – “The city has been strongly criticized for failing to launch an aggressive social marketing campaign… In fall 2008, a D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice report sharply rebuked the city’s AIDS awareness effort…”
RECESSION | Effects being felt by nonprofits nationwide, report finds (PND, 8/31)
“EXTREME” GRANTING! | Concurrent with the [Extreme Home Makeover] reveal, Millicent Williams, President and CEO of the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corporation, awarded The Fishing School a grant in the amount of $50,000. The Wachovia Foundation, of Wachovia Bank, matched the grant with an additional $50,000 (wire, 8/30). More about the filming…
CORPORATE
- Drops in corporate giving exceed forecasts (Crain’s, 8/28)
- “The Washington Area Fuel Fund, Washington Gas’s signature philanthropic program, assisted more than 8,200 area residents in 2009, disbursing over $888,000 to help pay for winter heating bills.” (wire, 8/27)
GIVING | “Skip a lunch, feed a bunch” – Sept. 16 – Capital Area Food Bank asks businesses, nonprofits and individuals to donate what they would normally spend on lunch.
SOCIAL PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS | Non-Profit Helps Abused Women From Local Vietnamese Population (WAMU, 8/31)
SCHOOLS | Schools crack down on rising truancy (Examiner, 8/30) - ”I’ll go next week.”
