Our June 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This issue contains a message from Executive Director Elijah Wheeler, information about a new RFP for the Gear Up for Growth program, an update on The Basics MoCo, and more! This issue of the newsletter includes an update on [...]
Our May 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s feature story focuses on a training series on Equitable Community Engagement for Montgomery County staffers offered by the Communty Justice Co-Creation Initiative. We also provide a recap of recent staff development activities, and a reminder that our 2024 Annual [...]
Our March 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter features a follow-up on our recent MoCo BOOST Data Walk with Urban Institute, information about an upcoming series of trainings on Immigration Rights offered by the National Immigration Project, upcoming events and activities in April, and welcomes [...]
Our November/December 2024 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter features Universal Human Rights Month, our partnership with The Brookings Institution on their Wellness in Black Life Initiative, and two job openings at the Collaboration Council. Sadiq Ali and Dr. David Miller facilitated our initial Wellness [...]
Our September 2024 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter features a message from Executive Director Elijah Wheeler, news from MoCo ReConnect, and ways to observe and celebrate Native American Heritage Month. We also welcome two new staff members. On October 7, our staff held their quarterly [...]
Our June 2024 newsletter is now available online. This month’s newsletter includes information our upcoming AYD Training, a video featuring Out-of-School Time partner Girls on the Run Montgomery County, a new Open Solicitation for a Community Engagement Trainer, and more! Watch a short video about Girls on the Run Montgomery County
Our April 2024 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter includes release of our 2023 Annual Report, updates from our Out-of-School Time program, a few ways to make every month Earth Month, and more.
Our February 2024 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter includes information our partnership with Everyday Canvassing to conduct our triennial Community Needs Assessment, a new report showing that the City of Gaithersburg is the most ethnically diverse city in the nation (and that Germantown, Silver Spring, and Rockville [...]
We're excited to be supporting Racial Justice Now! DMV in presenting a community conversation on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the Rockville Library, to address the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Black students in MCPS. This conversation, which is the third in a series addressing this issue, will feature Councilmember Will Jawando, Chair of the County Council's Education [...]
Our January 2024 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter includes information about the Community Needs Assessment Open Solicitation, a recap of our MoCo BOOST Holiday Party, and a selection of events coming up during Black History Month.