When dreams emerge! Participant Wins Scholarship
Join us in celebrating Dreaming Out Loud, Inc. program participant Darryl Robinson and his recent achievement as a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship Award from Georgetown University. We first met Darryl as a rising senior during an interview for our program Project Dream Green, an environmental learning and work experience. Georgetown President John DeGioia congratulated [...]
AYA: A Market Redux
On October 30th from 10am – 5pm a group of nonprofit organizations and small businesses will hostAYA: An East of the River Health and Wellness Market. The event will take place at the Center for Green Urbanism, located just blocks from both the Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road Metro stations at 3938 Benning Road NE. AYA [...]
Aya: Health and Wellness Market
On October 16th from 10am – 5pm a group of nonprofit organizations and small businesses will host AYA: An East of the River Health and Wellness Market. The event will take place at the Center for Green Urbanism, located just blocks from both the Minnesota Avenue and Benning Road Metro stations at 3938 Benning Road [...]
DC Youth Lead Green Revolution
Recently, Project Dream Green was featured in the Afro American newspaper and New America Media. The article highlights the successful launch of the program with 72 young people from the Mayor’s Green Summer Jobs Corps. Among our accomplishments for the summer were the distribution of 1,000 compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs; handing out over 3,000 pieces of [...]
GreenTHINK Meeting 2-28-2010
GreenTHINK’s February meeting featured two great speakers and activists who reported their findings at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. After the presentations, we had an opportunity to catch up with Kari Fulton and Leslie Fields. Kari serves as the National Youth Campaign Coordinator of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative [...]
