Posted on November 16, 2018
After nearly a century of organizing and protesting for the right to vote, Women’s Suffrage was finally ratified in 1920. And just this November, almost 100 years later, more women than ever were elected to Congress. It is the determination…
Posted on November 1, 2018
The Weissberg Foundation has announced the 2018-2020 Equitable Justice Fund grantees…
Posted on October 29, 2018
Justice For Muslims Collective (JMC) works to dismantle institutional and structural Islamophobia through programming focused on raising political consciousness and shifting narratives,…
Posted on October 12, 2018
ONE DC’s Black Workers and Wellness Center (BWWC) in Anacostia officially opened. The BWWC is affiliated with a national consortium of Black Worker Centers. The BWWC is a resident-led space…
Posted on October 5, 2018
Empower DC is a citywide community organization with a 15-year track record of organizing impacted residents and promoting racial, economic and environmental…
Posted on September 17, 2018
Starting in January 2018, Critical Exposure (CE) joined with DC Alliance for Youth Advocates (DCAYA), and Mikva Challenge to host a youth mayoral forum planned, organized, and led by a 15-member Youth Leadership Team…
Posted on August 22, 2018
MLOV’s Summer Institute for Student Organizers (SISO) is a six-week leadership training with the intention of bringing political education with hands-on training for English Language Learner (ELL) immigrant youth…
Posted on August 6, 2018
The Young Women’s Project has been leading the youth organizing and fieldwork of the Vote 16 DC Campaign – educating and mobilizing youth, adults and public officials to support legislation that lowers the DC voting age to 16 for local and national elections…
Posted on June 28, 2018
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium works to achieve social, economic, and racial justice, project a progressive voice, and promote the full participation of Korean and Asian Americans within the larger society. Have a look at what they’ve accomplished…
Posted on June 15, 2018
In a criminal justice system in which defendants are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, cash bail causes a massive injustice—the incarceration of individuals who have not yet been tried simply because they cannot afford bail. Over Mother’s Day weekend, Progressive Maryland bailed out six mothers from Prince George’s County jails…
Posted on May 23, 2018
Through Equitable Justice, we will support organizations and efforts building the leadership and advocacy capacity of system-impacted women, girls, trans, and gender non-conforming individuals of color to advance equity and change the narrative about who they are, what our criminal justice system is, and what it can be…
Posted on April 27, 2018
At the end of March, a team of Weissberg Foundation trustees and staff traveled to Beloit College in Wisconsin for Weissberg Week, which is part of the Weissberg Program in Human Rights (WPHR) at Beloit…
Posted on April 27, 2018
2018 Women Working for the World Conference: An International Forum for Collaboration on Gender and Development…
Posted on March 26, 2018
Feedback from Applicants on Our Grantmaking Process: This second post in our series focuses on feedback we received about our grantmaking process – both what worked and what could be improved…
Posted on March 14, 2018
What would a racially equitable Montgomery County look like? On October 18, 2017 the Racial Equity Working Group of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG) partnered with IMPACT Silver Spring to explore this question…
Posted on March 12, 2018
Part 1: Advancing Racial Equity in the DC Area; We are excited to share some key learnings from the early stages of our new Reframing Empowerment Fund! …
Posted on January 19, 2018
The Weissberg Foundation has announced the 2018 Reframing <Washington> Empowerment Fund grantees …
Posted on December 20, 2017
At the close of the first year of our Diversity in Theater Initiative, we invited cohort members to share successes and challenges in their work.…
Posted on December 12, 2017
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIP) Metro-DC Chapter Co-Chairs Rosie Abriam and Weissberg Foundation’s Hanh Le reflect on a recent discussion about advancing racial equity…
Posted on September 5, 2017
New Frames to Help Us See More Clearly and Do More Effectively Today we launch our new website! This is much more than a website redesign. It’s the official roll-out of our new strategic framework; an announcement of our newest…
Posted on August 31, 2017
NCRP has announced their 2017 Impact Awards acknowledging the work of grantmakers serving as examples of bold, high-impact giving that puts emphasis on leading by example, being true partners to communities they serve and standing up for the most marginalized…
Posted on August 22, 2017
As a social justice foundation deeply committed to advancing racial equity through funding, amplification, capacity building, and collaboration, and as a member of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers (WRAG), the Weissberg Foundation stands behind this statement on Charlottesville…
Posted on August 11, 2017
Last year, the Foundation kicked off a year-long process to develop a strategic framework for our philanthropy, which we’ll roll out at the end of this summer. First we wanted to share the values that are embedded in the new strategic framework and will guide how we implement it…
Posted on May 17, 2017
With more than 2.3 million Americans behind bars, there is no question that our country has a mass incarceration problem. 1 in 10 African American men in their thirties is imprisoned, 94% of federal prisoners have nonviolent convictions, and 2.7 million children have a parent in jail…
Posted on May 8, 2017
In 2016, the Foundation kicked off a year-long strategic planning process to chart a course for our work over the next several years. In this post Executive Director, Hanh Le, shares the feedback we gathered from our grantees and applicants that’s informing our strategy…
Posted on December 19, 2016
Unpacking a social construct as complicated as race takes work, patience, and time. We are exploring diversity and inclusion with the objective of making continued learning of equity, diversity, and inclusion a central theme in all of our future work…
Posted on August 18, 2016
Our 2016-2019 Fund for Diversity in Theater is a $1,000,000 commitment to engage and expand new voices and audiences in DC-area theaters. This initiative includes capacity building support to selected grantees and shared learning with the theater and philanthropic communities…
Posted on July 27, 2016
New York is one of only two states that treats 16 year-olds as adults in the criminal justice system; it’s one of nine that does the same for 17 year-olds. They are often incarcerated far away from families and support systems, leading to a lifetime in the justice system…
Posted on July 15, 2016
Innovative college-in-prison programs have been awarded Second Chance Pell Grants, part of a federal pilot program to sponsor prison education. As many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell grants to finance college classes…
Posted on June 7, 2016
The Weissberg Foundation is pleased to announce that Hanh Le has joined the staff as our Executive Director! Hanh is a multi-faceted nonprofit leader with extensive experience in the social sector…
Posted on November 12, 2015
This holiday season, the gifts we purchase for our loved ones (and ourselves!) have a global impact no matter what, but by focusing your purchasing power on handcrafted, artisan goods, you can contribute to the empowerment of artists and craftsmen worldwide…
Posted on June 1, 2015
The Weissberg Family Foundation regularly shares the work of our grantees as seen through videos, podcasts and news articles from and about our grantees as they demonstrate their efforts to transform their communities…