Changing Our Community

CharityWorks has been making connections between dreams and reality for more than a decade. We are a volunteer-led organization creating positive change in the Washington Metropolitan area by uniting corporate leaders, donors and volunteers to enable non-profits to transform lives.

Since 1999, we have channeled millions of dollars to community organizations doing the hard work of helping break the cycle of poverty that continues to plague our nation’s capital. We have:

• Raised $2 million to help build a Fisher House on the grounds of the Veterans Medical Center in D.C. The home will support the families of military patients receiving medical care
• Built a home for a single mother and her daughter and financed the purchase of 20 plots of land for Habitat for Humanity
• Sent 24 local foster youth to college for four years
• Opened and expanded literacy programs to benefit more than
  3,600 children per year
• Increased the impact of The Fishing School, an after-school and summer program befitting more than 200 children
• Helped finance the construction of a second campus for the Maya Angelou Public Charter School (operated by See Forever) and gave 150 high school teens what The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer called “their last chance at success”
• Expanded and opened after-school and summer programs at 10 elementary schools in some of the most under-resourced areas in DC
• Expanded the Higher Achievement Program to give 500 low-income teens in the Metropolitan area a chance to attend a top academic high school
• Expanded elementary and middle school programs benefiting 2,400 vulnerable, low-income children

We know that an investment in a good education is an investment in all of our futures and we are proud to join hands with the Friendship Public Charter School to design and build early childhood centers of excellence in our nation’s capital.

CharityWorks is a component fund of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region. Contributions to CharityWorks, less the value of any benefits received, are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.