Mayor Bowser is looking for a new DPW director. What will this mean for environmental progress in the city?
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The weekly DC Register contains legislative actions and they often relate to issues about which APACC is interested. Each week, we publish Helder Gil’s tweets as well as noting contents we find interesting.
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The CityParks Blog recently published an article about the health benefits of well-activated and frequently-used neighborhood parks. The study covered in the article found that increasing programming in parks and advertising about parks has a significant impact on how many people use them for physical activity.
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Events DC, the organization that operates DC’s convention centers and other large venues, offers a Community Grant program. The 2019 grant applications are due by February 1, 2019.
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The weekly DC Register contains legislative actions and they often relate to issues about which APACC is interested. Each week, we publish Helder Gil’s tweets as well as noting contents we find interesting.
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Mayor Bowser’s agenda for 2019 and the balance of her second term is clear: housing. Learn more from the journalists who covered the mayor’s 2019 kickoff presser January 7.
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Helder Gil (@hgil), “Transplanted New Yorker. GWU & @GWHatchet alum. Public servant. On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. All tweets are my personal opinion.”, regularly takes to Twitter to summarize the weekly publication of the DC Register. We’re sharing them here to elevate the importance of the DCR and to make the content more accessible.
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Helder Gil (@hgil), “Transplanted New Yorker. GWU & @GWHatchet alum. Public servant. On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. All tweets are my personal opinion.”, regularly takes to Twitter to summarize the weekly publication of the DC Register. We’re sharing them here to elevate the importance of the DCR and to make the content more accessible.
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The Council of the District of Columbia formalizes itself with rules and into committees. Get the 411.
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There’s always something happening in DC government and we’ve got the latest important to the APACC issues here.
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2019 kicks off a year of old and new in DC government. Read the deets about the swearing-in and more.
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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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A number of agency director and deputy mayor changes have taken place since September. We’ve got the changes of import to APACC.
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Helder Gil (@hgil), “Transplanted New Yorker. GWU & @GWHatchet alum. Public servant. On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. All tweets are my personal opinion.”, regularly takes to Twitter to summarize the weekly publication of the DC Register. We’re capturing them here to elevate the importance of the DCR and to make the content more accessible.
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Organizational news and other important info from APACC members Anacostia Riverkeeper, Urban Institute, and Washington Parks and People.
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The northern half Kenilworth Park is slated to be transferred to the District of Columbia government from the Federal government. Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) has been working alongside members of the Anacostia Park and Community Collaborative (APACC), the National Park Service (NPS), the Office of Planning (OP) and the Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) to begin to envision what the park could become after the transfer.
APACC believes that the park, once cleaned up, can provide more than just space for recreation: it can provide green jobs for neighbors, outdoor education classrooms and programs for children and youth, better access to the Anacostia River, spaces for meditation and healing, and much, much more.
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