The Village in Action
Micro Report
August 2024 - November 2025
From Vision to Action:
Our First Two Chapters
CARE DC is a Movement
During the Civil Rights Era, Black-founded and Black-led organizations created chapters to move and advance their missions at the grassroots level. CARE DC has embraced this same strategy—meeting people where they are, increasing economic autonomy, and uniting collectively for city-wide impact. Historically, DC’s Consolidated Parent Group demonstrated the power of grassroots, neighborhood chapter-led change in transforming Washington’s segregated schools. This micro report affirms that the strategies of the past remain just as effective today in the fight for racial justice and economic empowerment for Black and Brown students in our public schools.
The Village Must Take Action.
Since launching CARE Anacostia and CARE Brookland, along with our core programs:
Hopes and Dreams,
Power Our Schools, and
Educator Advancement Team
we’ve seen measurable impact and stories of transformation.
We Strengthen the Village That Raises the Child
Because our youth need their village to be strong; without it, something else will write their future.
We believe small, focused actions lead to transformative results. That’s why we center on the 1%.
Our People: Families, Neighbors, Educators
Our Formula for Change:
Assemble: In the fall, we build relationships.
Address: In winter, we identify gaps, issues and solutions.
Act: In spring, we put plans into motion for transformation.
Impact Snapshots:
Schools Supported: 10
Educators Engaged: 11
Community Connected: 700
Projects Initiated: 2
Volunteers Connected: 100
Projects Implemented: 10
Policy Shifts: 2
Partnerships Connected to Schools: 5
Community Wins: 5
Shifting the Generations
Our Family Meetings are spaces of liberation—where families voice their dreams for the next generation and confront the barriers that hold them back. Together, we organize strategies to disrupt harmful patterns and build a future rooted in justice and hope. When we plan collectively, we reclaim power and create brighter possibilities for all.
We invest in the future of our youth through capacity-building, mutual aid, and community-led projects that dismantle inequities and strengthen solidarity. Families love their children deeply, and we provide the space to heal, grow, and care, so that love becomes a force for transformation across generations.
Hopes and Dreams
Our Strength is in Service
Power Our Schools is a call to action for neighbors to use their gifts, networks, and resources to create real change in their neighborhoods and schools. At a time when equity and access are under pressure, we open pathways for neighbors to volunteer, share ideas, and shape strategies so schools and communities can thrive.
Barriers fall when the community comes together to advocate, invest, and protect our most vulnerable, our youth. Putting our hands, minds, and hearts together is an act of resistance and a revolutionary model for justice. A few volunteers can spark a movement, creating platforms for young people to experience freedom, civic engagement, and leadership rooted in community power.
Power Our Schools
Expanding Minds, Building Freedom
We empower educators to think boldly and bring their passions forward—sparking joy, inspiration, and justice. Classrooms become spaces where children dream big and gain the tools to achieve those dreams.
We break barriers of dreaming big to possibility, because every child deserves limitless horizons. We remind educators that they are architects of liberation and we want them to love their craft, love their students, and feel confident in their power to lift entire classrooms toward a brighter future. Education is racial justice in action. And every classroom is a space where racial justice comes alives through education. We must invest in our educators, so our communities can rise.
Educator Advancement Team
Justice in Action: From the Home, to the Block, to the Classroom
Justice starts where we live, grows where we gather, and thrives where our children learn. CARE DC is building this movement of self-determination from every corner of our community to ensure equity and opportunity for Black and Brown students flourish, with no barriers, for city-wide impact.
This all started with $20 and a vision.
Your small investment will generate big impact.
Invest $20 a month and watch our community transform.
“I want my child to learn about the cosmos and Frederick Douglas and go on field trips. I want their education to be lit!”
- Ketcham ES Parent, Family Meeting, Topic: What Do You Want for Your Child?
“I want to break the cycle with my children, but I want them to see me as a model of the change. I want more for them and more for me.”
- Boone ES Parent, Family Meeting, Topic: Financial Literacy
“Recess at the Capitol was a way to be laser focused on our schools east of the river. They needed to see who’s hurting from cutting DC’s budget! So we brought our babies to the Capitol.”
- Community Member, CARE Anacostia, Power Our Schools, Virtual Neighborhood Gathering
“Connecting students from Luke C. Moore to Howard Hospital for more than baby formula, but a workplace opportunity, creates a pipeline of career readiness and development.”
- Community Member, CARE Brookland, Power Our Schools, Take Five Newsletter Response to a Mutual Aid Opportunity
“I’m excited to be part of this cohort. I want to design a more connected and community-based learning experience that helps students see the world beyond thier immediate surroundings.”
- Brookland MS, Educator, CARE Brookland, E.A.T. Cohort
“The Educator Advancement Team was transformative for me. Cultivating literacy as a force, an imaginative world where families, students and neigbhors can connect is powerful and it affirms why I became an educator.”
- Ketcham ES, Educator, CARE Anacostia, E.A.T. Cohort
Donations from Givebutter will go to CARE Anacostia, and CARE Brookland will receive half of the donation as a sub-recipient. Please visit their website to invest directly in CARE Anacostia or CARE Brookland.
www.careanacostia.org
Tax ID: 83-1420948
www.carebrookland.org
Tax ID: 84-2912811