Community and Philanthropy

A Beautiful Mind Foundation

Mission: To positively impact lives by investing in culturally competent mental health services that educate, enlighten and empower our diverse community. 

Adoptions Together

Mission: Adoptions Together builds healthy lifelong family connections for every child and advocates for continuous improvement of systems that promote the well being of children.

Adventist Health Care

Mission: We extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing. 

Arts for the Aging

Mission: Arts for the Aging engages older adults and caregivers with diverse abilities and backgrounds in health improvement and life enhancement through regular participation in the multidisciplinary arts.

American University

Mission: To advance knowledge, foster intellectual curiosity, build community, and empower lives of purpose, service, and leadership.

Artists 4 Israel

Mission: Artists 4 Israel prevents the spread of anti-Israel bigotry through art and helps communities and people affected by terrorism and hate.

Back on My Feet

Mission: Back on My Feet combats homelessness through the power of fitness, community support and essential employment and housing resources.

Bullis School

Mission: Bullis School provides a rich intellectual experience that inspires students to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and impactful global citizens. Our student-centered community embraces diversity, honors integrity, and fosters belonging. Meaningful opportunities in academics, arts, athletics, and service stimulate individual and collective growth and enhance joy.

Burke School

Mission: Burke consciously brings together students who are different from one another in many ways, actively engages them in their own education, holds them to high expectations, gives them power and responsibility, and supports and advances their growth as skilled and independent thinkers who step forward to make positive contributions to the world in which they live.

Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children

Mission: CASA’s mission is to promote court-appointed volunteer advocacy so that every abused and neglected child in the DC foster care or juvenile justice system can be safe, establish permanence and have the opportunity to thrive. This mission is carried out through the recruitment, training, and support of volunteer advocates (CASA volunteers) who serve youth in DC.

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

Mission: We deliver an exemplary and inspiring general and Jewish education.

Christ Child Society 

Mission: To meet the material, educational, and emotional needs of children in the Washington, D.C area.

Annunciation Catholic Church

Mission: We are committed to promoting a positive perception of the values of Catholicism through the development of lay ministries, education, evangelization, and through a sincere concern for social justice.

Clara Barton Center for Children

Mission: Our goals are to nurture self-esteem, foster social, cognitive, and physical development, and lay the groundwork for a life-long love of learning.

Friends of the Library

Mission: To strengthen, promote, and champion Montgomery County Public Libraries (MCPL), for it to better serve the learning interests and needs of the diverse and changing communities of the County.

Georgetown Day School

Mission: Georgetown Day School honors the integrity and worth of each individual within a diverse school community. GDS is dedicated to providing a supportive educational atmosphere in which teachers challenge the intellectual, creative, and physical abilities of our students and foster strength of character and concern for others. From the earliest grades, we encourage our students to wonder, to inquire, and to be self-reliant, laying the foundation for a lifelong love of learning.

Georgetown Preparatory School

Mission: Georgetown Prep's mission is to form men of competence, conscience, courage and compassion; men of faith and men for and with others.

Giving Together Inc.

Mission: The Mission of Giving Together is to collectively pool our members’ resources and raise funds for and provide services to persons in need in the metropolitan D.C. area, particularly women and families. This will be accomplished by funding services that include, but are not limited to, housing, health services, legal assistance, workforce development, education and social supports.

Glen Echo Park

Mission: The Partnership presents vibrant artistic, cultural and educational offerings at Glen Echo Park and promotes the Park as a unique destination for our region's diverse population. We inspire creativity and offer shared artistic experiences in a welcoming historic and natural setting within a National Park. 

Healthy Babies Project Inc.

Mission: We help the poorest District youth build stable lives to ensure the most vulnerable are healthy and self-sufficient.

Homecrest House

Mission: to provide seniors of limited income with subsidized supportive, affordable housing in order to maintain independence and quality of life.

Hometown Foundation

Mission: The Hometown Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization committed to supporting those in need. The Foundation’s focus and commitment center around five key program areas: Animal Welfare, Emergency Response Personnel, Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities or In Need, Major Illness, and the Military. Our year-round programs are devoted to strengthening our local communities to create a more cohesive and inclusive society.

Horace Mann School

Mission: With our diverse, multi-national population, we are both a global and close community of learners. We embrace academic choice and responsive teaching. Our recently renovated and expanded campus, which features a rooftop farm, arts classrooms, and an expansive outside playscape, invites us to learn within and beyond our school walls. Serious about our students' academic growth, we also believe that a school community must be a place of joy and celebration.

International Club at Wheaton High School

Mission: To promote cultural awareness within our school and community and to provide a place in which students of Wheaton’s diverse cultures can come together for fun, service projects, and learning. We feel it is important for our students to celebrate their common bond as immigrants to this country.

Janney Elementary School

Mission: Janney is exceptional because of our beliefs, our role in the community, our people and our programs. Our students contribute to an atmosphere centered on respect, curiosity and diligence. Our goal is to be a community of learners built on a foundation of inquiry, equity, reflection, collaboration and experimentation.

Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington

Mission: We cultivate communities in a warm and inclusive environment to celebrate Jewish life and values.

Jewish Federation of Greater Washington

Mission: To inspire, build, and sustain vibrant Jewish life in a changing world by mobilizing our community in common purpose, intentional innovation, and effective action.

Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation's Capital

Mission: The mission of the Milton Gottesman Jewish Day School of the Nation’s Capital is to provide a strong foundation in Jewish and secular learning, laying the groundwork for our students to become knowledgeable, responsible Jews and citizens, who are deeply committed to the community at large, to Jewish living and values, and to the people and state of Israel. 

Joseph Gawler's Sons, LLC

Mission: Whether you use only our arranging services or our beautiful facilities as well, our courteous staff strives to help families focus on what’s important—honoring a loved one. Offering service beyond expectation is always the goal in providing funeral services or planning ahead. Choosing to work with the staff at Joseph Gawler’s Sons allows you to focus on grieving, sharing and healing with friends and family. It also can provide the customized, ideal service in honor of your loved one.

KeenFest

Mission: Empower youth with disabilities and impact volunteer coaches through participation in free, non-competitive, one-on-one programs of physical activity and fun, supporting the overall health and well-being of all participants

Manna Homes

Mission: Manna offers an array of housing communities and comprehensive housing services. In addition to homebuyer education, and homeownership development addressing the limited supply of affordable units in the region, Manna’s work expanded to create new, and preserve existing affordable rental housing. Manna’s mission and work is needed now more than ever to retain low- and moderate-income workers, and build more inclusive, healthy communities. 

Miriam's Kitchen

Mission: Ending chronic homelessness might sound impossible. We know that it’s not. Learn how it’s happening. It starts with dignity. It happens through belonging. The most successful intervention for chronic homelessness is Permanent Supportive Housing, which couples permanent housing with supportive services that target the specific needs of an individual. Ending chronic homelessness is possible. Miriam’s Kitchen is guiding people home.

Mishkan Hashofar

Mission: To have a safe place for Jewish and Gentile people to gather together as a community to worship Yeshua (Jesus) the Jewish Messiah, learn Scripture and mature in faith, serve in community, witness the truth of Messiah to the world and provide training to the next generation of leaders.

Murch Elementary School

Mission: Our goal has been to create an exciting, urban, 21st century educational facility, with multiple recreation and open park space opportunities that are exciting and wonderful to study, play and work in.

National Presbyterian

Mission: Leading People to Become Faithful Followers of Jesus Christ Together in God’s World; We believe God is calling us to lead people to become faithful followers of Jesus Christ together in God’s world. This mission statement boldly declares that NPC is committed to discipleship, to community, to service, and, most importantly, to a deep and abiding faith in Christ.

Our Lady of Lourdes School

Mission: Our Lady of Lourdes School provides a solid foundation in the Catholic faith, fosters academic excellence, and educates children to be successful leaders who serve the world.

Shrine of St. Jude Catholic Church

Mission: We are a Catholic Christian community of diverse origins united as a family under the patronage of Saint Jude Thaddeus, the apostle, friend, and relative of Jesus. We believe, cherish, and celebrate the saving truth of Christ as handed down to us in the Church Universal.We are committed to learn, live, teach, and spread the beautiful and precious Catholic faith. We seek to become the "Beacon of Christ on the Hill" in our neighborhood and beyond.

So Others May Eat

Mission: As a faith-inspired organization, our founding mission stems from our belief that everyone deserves dignity, respect and autonomy. Appreciation for our shared humanity and sense of community has been a central pillar of our operations for over 50 years. At SOME, we strive to serve, empower and elevate all members of our community. 

St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church

Mission: Our mission is to grow and proclaim our Apostolic Faith in Jesus Christ while sustaining our Christian Armenian identity. We celebrate a long and enduring legacy and our beautiful traditions that uphold our religious and national heritage in everlasting servitude with love and reverence towards our Church.

The Alzheimer’s Association

Mission: The Alzheimer's Association leads the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support.

THIS for Diplomats

Mission: To promote international understanding and friendship through educational, informational and cultural exchanges with members of the diplomatic community in Washington, DC.

United Spinal Association

Mission: We serve individuals with spinal cord injuries/disease (SCI/D) in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia through advocacy, recreational  opportunities, and community resources.

University of Maryland

Mission: The mission of the University of Maryland, College Park is to provide excellent teaching, research, and service. The University educates students and advances knowledge in areas of importance to the State, the nation, and the world. The University is committed to being a preeminent national center for research and for graduate education, and the institution of choice for Maryland’s undergraduates of exceptional ability and promise.

Washington Post

Mission: The mission of The Washington Post is defined in a set of principles written by Eugene Meyer, who bought the newspaper in 1933. The mission of a newspaper is to tell the truth as nearly as the truth may be ascertained; Tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it; Observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman; Be fit reading for the young as well as for the old; Duty is to its readers and to the public at large, not to the private interests of its owners; Be prepared to make sacrifices of its material fortunes, if such course be necessary for the public good; Shall not be the ally of any special interest, but shall be fair and free and wholesome in its outlook on public affairs and public men.

Wheaton High School

Mission: Wheaton High School will provide all students access to a comprehensive, rigorous, collaborative, and equitable school experience in a caring environment in order to be successful in college and career.

Wyngate Elementary School PTA

Mission: Promoting the welfare of our children in school, home, and community.