COVID-19 Response Program - Projects Supported

APACC is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with it’s internal relief fund. Three projects were recently approved for emergency support as our networks mobilize to share information, trace contacts, build internal capacity to work from home, support residents, engage our community and restore the river during this crisis. Learn more about recent funding resources here.

“Anacostia Responds to COVID-19 Program”

Lead Organization(s): Anacostia Coordinating Council, Fairlawn Citizens Association

Project Leader(s): Aaron Holmes, Stuart Anderson, Philip Pannell, Graylin Presbury, Michael Bochynski

Description: District Ward 7 and Ward 8 COVID-19 public health and contact tracing training. Outreach including dissemination of testing information to Anacostia residents.

“Ward 8 Woods Park Stewardship Public Narrative & Watershed Learning Program Capacity”

Lead Organization(s): Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, Inc.

Project Leaders: Nathan Harrington, Stacia Turner, Michael Bochynski

Description: The program will build Ward 8 Woods Conservancy community outreach capacity through public narrative and communication, as well as continue to build watershed education and restoration capacity during the pandemic.

“Ward 7 Paddle to the Sea Program”

Lead Organization(s): Washington Parks & People

Project Leaders: Asheligh Mitchell, Behnam Mehrabkhani, Steve Coleman

Description: The program will utilize the Anacostia River to help community residents lift up their leadership, lives, and livelihoods. Based at the Marvin Gaye Community Greening Center in Far Northeast DC, and accessing the River at Kenilworth Park, the program will bridge the divide of the River at this key spot to help make the River and its parks an ongoing part of its communities.