Takoma Park Folk Festival is on September 8 at the Takoma Park Middle School. This free festival is expected to have over 5,000 in attendance and will have a cross-section of the DC area community. The festival offers two ways groups can gain donations and/or visibility: becoming a Beneficiary Group or exhibiting as a “Community Table.” Click here for more information.
We are excited to include programs like the Equity Dialogue and our upcoming workshop Safe Spaces for LGBTQ+ Individuals: How to Be An Ally.
We encourage you to read/explore the issue of equity to better understand it as a lens through which to view your work. Here are some helpful links:
Join Kolot HaLev for their annual concert on Sunday, June 2, 4pm at the Temple Beth Ami in Rockville. Special guests from Rochambeau Choir will also be performing. Click here for more information.
This workshop aims to reduce the often unwelcoming and even hostile environments in which LGBTQIA people navigate in their daily lives. Workshop participants will explore their role and responsibility in creating a more welcoming environment at work, school, and in our communities. All attendees will leave the workshop with greater understanding and workable solutions for promoting Safe Spaces of Respect, Acceptance, and Support for all.
Through the workshop participants will:
The City of Rockville Department of Planning and Development Services and their consultant partners are facilitating discussions about the future of the Rockshire Shopping Center site. Please join this meeting on May 9, 7-9pm to collaborate and share ideas. Click here for more information.
On May 14-16, the Montgomery County Collaboration Council will host more than 150 youth development professionals at its annual Youth Development and Mentoring Symposium at The Universities at Shady Grvoe. The symposium is specifically designed to increase and reinforce the critical knowledge and skills needed for practitioners who work with Montgomery County youth.Click here for more information.
Montgomery County is finally talking about its segregated schools. But can we fix them? (Greater Greater Washington, April 24)
If you’re feeling hopeless of late, remember that your work matters and you do too (Nonprofit AF, April 22)
Immigrant Children Using Health Care Services On The Rise In Montgomery County (WAMU 88.5, April 16)
The Meyer Foundation – Applications due July 10, 2019
Please note that this group is for Nonprofit Montgomery members only.
The Writer’s Center welcomes the community as a meeting and event venue in Bethesda. The Writer’s Center has classroom space and large event space in its 12,000-square-foot facility. We also encourage the DC-area literary community to take advantage of The Writer’s Center for writing groups, book clubs, and readings. Check the website for more details, call 301-654-8664, or email info@writer.org.