Making a Difference for DC Residents
Friday, April 25, 2014
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
“It’s
really easy to just write checks and think you
are helping your town,” said
Community Foundation President Terri Lee
Freeman. “But what’s really gratifying
is to know that those checks go to agencies
that are really making a difference
for DC residents, and helping them benefit from
the economic development
activity that is booming here now.” Freeman
spoke at a reception Wednesday
night for local grant-winners, including the
Community Services Agency, DC
Central Kitchen, N Street Village, and the
Urban Alliance (CSA Awarded CityCenterDC
Grant 1/31/2014
UC), which
have been working with residents from
neighborhoods surrounding the CityCenter
DC project at 9th and New York Avenue NW. The
Community Foundation coordinated
the request for proposals and grantee award
process, and co-sponsored the
reception with Hines, the project’s
developer, along with the CityCenter DC
Residential Advisory Committee. Standing in
front of a detailed miniature of
the project, which extends from 9th to 11th
Street between H Street and New
York Avenue, Hines’ Howard Riker introduced
the awardees and expressed
gratitude for their interest in the project,
reiterating Hines’ continuing
commitment to ensure community input and
community benefit moving forward.
“We’re thrilled to be part of this
partnership and look forward to helping more
DC residents get into good jobs and
apprenticeships in construction with
assistance from this grant,” said CSA
Executive Director Kathleen McKirchy,
adding that CSA will continue its successful
Building Futures construction
pre-apprenticeship program for low-income
residents and work with the
partnership when phase two construction begins
on a new hotel at the site in
2015.
photo (l-r):
Community
Foundation’s Sarah Oldmixon, MWC and CSA
President Jos Williams, Building
Futures Case Manager Jennifer Gajdosik and Job
Developer Andrea Thompson; photo
by Kathleen McKirchy