“Many community advocates and government agencies are doing their best to make this happen on the Anacostia River here in Washington, but these groups don’t necessarily have an agreement about what the river corridor should become. There is no explicit shared sense of how the many individual projects along the river will collectively create an experience greater than the sum of its parts: there is no “vision” for the Anacostia River corridor.”
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One of the ways APACC helps members (and non-members) build their organizational capacity is through a weekly post with useful information and skill-building opportunities. Check out this week’s post.
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Financial sustainability is a major, perhaps the most important, concern of community-based organizations. Nonprofits and social enterprises can get help from the seven-module training program focused on organizational sustainability offered by Project 500™.
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You don’t have to be a climate expert or economist to know about resilience. Resilient DC wants to know your ideas about what DC government, for-profit and nonprofit businesses, and individuals can do to make various facets of life in DC resilient. Participate in person meetings or online.
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The room was packed at Thurgood Marshall Academy Tuesday night for the Year of the Anacostia Forum for At-large Candidates sponsored by ACC and APACC. Head inside for pics and more.
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Learn how to use the council’s Legislative Information Management System (LIMS) at a community training session Monday, November 5.
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Several APACC members have received funding to make things happen in the Anacostia River Corridor. Anacostia Trust, for example, is creating an engagement toolkit to test one method of resident around Kenilworth Park North. Anacostia Coordinating Council and partners are focusing on videography to make a difference.
Read MoreOne of the ways APACC helps members (and non-members) build their organizational capacity is through a weekly post with useful information and skill-building opportunities. Check out this week’s post.
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Looking for a job/new job and solar interests you? Attend the Solar Focus Job Fair Tuesday, October 30 in downtown DC. Experienced and inexperienced should participate!
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The Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) offers several grant and rebate programs to support efforts to protect DC’s watersheds—including the Anacostia River—and even if you don’t work for an “environmental” organization or company, you are still eligible to apply to many of them.
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Organizational news and other important info from APACC members Neighborhood Legal Services Program, Urban Institute, Living Classrooms, and Institute for Public Health Innovation.
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Are you having a hard time paying your DC Water bill because it’s higher than ever? Testify at DC Water’s public hearing about the expanded financial assistance program Tuesday, October 30 at 6:30 pm or submit a statement in writing by the end of November.
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Department of Energy and Environment Director Tommy Wells and others will discuss progress made on the Anacostia River cleanup at the DC Chapter of Sierra Club Year of the Anacostia Update Thursday, November 8, 6:30-8:30 pm.
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One of the ways APACC helps members (and non-members) build their organizational capacity is through a weekly post with useful information and skill-building opportunities. Check out this week’s post.
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Moving your car every week for street sweeping has a tremendous benefit for the environment. WAMU’s Jacob Fenston tells the story with help from Laura Cattell Noll from Alice Ferguson Foundation (an APACC member!).
[Image: Jacob Fenston / WAMU]
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