Our August 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This issue includes an update on the R.E.D. Committee's recent work, a new video from The Basics MoCo promoting Basics Insights, details about JSSA's Family Wellness Day on September 7, a Collab Corner, and more! The Basics MoCo [...]
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 April 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter features our 2024 Annual Report, two ENOUGH initiative funding opportunities, and a FREE Immigration Rights Training on May 2. This issue also provides highlights from of an April 4 training with County youth development staff on using the Youth [...]
The Engaging Neighborhoods, Organizations, Unions, Governments, and Households (ENOUGH) initiative focuses on communities that have been disproportionately impacted by decades of disinvestment and harmful public policies that often systematized and reinforced race-based discrimination, limited wealth creation, and blocked pathways to economic mobility. The initiative is a state-led, place-based strategy to create poverty fighting opportunities driven by communities’ lived experience [...]
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 February 2025 newsletter is now available online. To receive future newsletters in your inbox, join our mailing list. This month’s newsletter features our 2024 Highlight Reel, ways to celebrate Women's History Month in March, two upcoming community events of interest, and a Collab Corner. Watch Our 2024 Highlight Reel!
Our January 2025 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, a selection of things to do in Montgomery County during Black History Month, and a Collab Corner with movie recommendations from Sela Gebrechirstos, our Community Organizing Manager. [...]
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 [...]