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Welcome to the new ONE DC website : Our mission is to create and preserve racial and economic equity through community organizing that centers the immediate needs and life experiences of DC residents.

We have three main organizing areas : One Right to Income, One Right to Land, and One Right to Housing . As with our overall organizational development, these organizing areas have grown out of the work of Manna CDC, but now have a stronger focus and City-wide perspective. Learn More About ONE DC

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2007 Annual Report

Tuesday, 04 March 2008

ONE DC’s first Annual Report is out, and it’s a keeper! Check it out here: [annualreport2007]

The report would not have been possible without the support of many generous donors. [Link ] Find out how you can support our work, and make ONE DC your community tithe!

The 2008 Kressley Organizing Institute, June 8-13

Tuesday, 04 March 2008

The Kressley Organizing Institute is a multi-year program to provide support for emerging community organizers in the DC Metro area. Named in honor of stalwart community organizing proponent Larry Kressley, the institute is now accepting applications for the Class of 2008. The week-long skills intensive is designed for community activists seeking to enhance their skills related to developing a constituency and running effective campaigns. The institute also includes monthly follow-up sessions. If you would like to know more about the Kressley Institute please click here. If you interested in applying click here for more information. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Applications are due April 18th.

Campaign Leaders LEAP Forward

Tuesday, 04 March 2008

This February we welcomed the inaugural class of the Leadership Education for Action & Power (LEAP) Academy, our six-month leadership development program for ONE DC members to develop the analysis and skills needed to win organizing victories. The program kicked off with a workshop titled “The Two Faces of Power;” future sessions will tackle the inequities wrought in the District and elsewhere by the globalization of capital, and participants will study successful people power movements.

Annual Celebration a Success!

Tuesday, 04 March 2008

ONE DC members & friends celebrated the first full calendar year of the organization’s existence at the Annual Celebration January 19^th at the historic Panorama Room of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Southeast. Over 250 justice workers filled the hall to break bread, take stock of the year’s victories and prepare for another year of powerful community organizing. At the dinner, ONE DC staff and the Board of Directors introduced the group’s first dues-paying, formal membership structure, now many months in the making. We were fortunate to welcome residents of all four quadrants and eight wards, including a sizable contingent from Barry Farms/Parkchester down the road, led by the youth leaders of Facilitating Leadership in Youth, who were recognized for their work to prevent the displacement of public housing residents.

Interview with Urica Lewis - ONE DC Member

Friday, 07 December 2007
November marked the culmination of a five-year campaign to achieve permanently affordable housing in Shaw, the first time the development of privately owned, low-income housing has been spearheaded entirely by DC residents, from visioning to groundbreaking (which is expected in 2009), and will be the first truly affordable housing built in the Shaw neighborhood in 20 years. To get a better idea of what this means for longtime Shaw residents ONE DC staff member Andrew Willis interviewed Urica Lewis, a native Washingtonian and longtime ONE DC member who grew up in the Shaw neighborhood.
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Victory for Permanently Affordable Housing in Shaw

Tuesday, 27 November 2007

After five years of campaigning for new, permanently affordable housing at 7th St NW and R St NW, ONE DC members won a huge victory this week with Mayor Adrian Fenty’s announcement that their preferred development plan for the site was also the administration’s choice.

As a result, the only housing developer willing to take leadership from ONE DC members on the project will build 110 apartments affordable to families making less than $50,000 and less than $25,000 a year, in addition to other amenities requested by residents.

"A Place For Me in the New Shaw"

I hope this means there is now a place for me in the new Shaw

- ONE Right to Housing leader Pat Penney

This marks the first time the development of privately owned, low-income housing has been spearheaded entirely by DC residents, from visioning to groundbreaking (which is expected in 2009), and will be the first truly affordable housing built in the Shaw neighborhood in 20 years.

At a press conference Wednesday at 7th St and R St NW, Mayor Fenty, joined by Councilmembers Jack Evans and Kwame Brown and a dozen ONE DC member leaders, announced the selection of Parcel 42 Partners as the developer of the vacant lot that will soon be permanently affordable housing.

At the press conference, Shaw native Pat Penney, who has been a leader with the ONE Right to Land Parcel 42 campaign since its inception as the Equitable Development Initiative, gave a moving tribute to the ONE DC members that made this victory possible, the decision-makers who listened to the people and her many friends and onetime neighbors in Shaw who, like her, have been forced out by rising rents and property taxes. "I hope this means there is now a place for me in the new Shaw," she said.