Current Grant Recipients
CAPACITY GRANT
Healthy Babies Project, founded in 1990, is focused on addressing the infant mortality rate in DC by offering low-income families access to health care, case management, and peer support. The Capacity Grant from JLW will help cover the cost to furnish two apartments in Healthy Babies Project’s new Perennial House, a transitional housing facility, which will house six homeless young mothers and babies as they transition to independence. Perennial House will provide safe, clean housing for these young mothers and babies while they transition to independent living.
INNOVATION GRANT
Dumbarton Arts and Education, Inc., established in 1979, transforms lives through the arts with two core programs: Dumbarton Concerts, a chamber music series, and Inspired Child, an arts‐based education initiative for children birth to age five in underserved DC communities. Dumbarton Arts and Education, Inc. will use the Innovation Grant from JLW to support a pilot program at five DCPS high schools with childcare centers for teen parents. The program will provide 20 weeks of Parent & Me arts‐based workshops that foster cognitive, physical, and social‐emotional growth for both parents and children. Teen parents will also attend workshops on the importance of arts in early brain development and how to incorporate arts into daily interactions to prepare their children for kindergarten. This project will deepen parent‐child bonds, support children’s development, and equip parents with tools to foster educational success for their children.
Arcadia Food Inc., established in 2010, is dedicated to cultivating vibrant regional food systems that build the health of our land, our food, and our community, from the farm forward. Arcadia Food, Inc. operates a working farm and increases access to healthy food for low-income communities, trains military veterans as farmers, introduces kids to healthy food at its source, and supports local growers with a free community farm. Arcadia Food, Inc. will use the Innovation Grant from JLW to support a pilot program to serve low-income housing communities with a pop-up mobile market. The funding will eliminate barriers for host housing communities, expand food access for thousands of residents, and generate the data needed to build a sustainable, long-term program.
VOLUNTEER RESOURCES GRANT
Founded in 2008, Dreaming Out Loud’s mission is to build a healthy, equitable food system that creates better health outcomes and economic opportunities for marginalized communities in the DC metropolitan region. The organization does this through the operation of urban farms, farmers markets, and a Food Hub that aggregates and distributes products from local Black- and Brown-owned farms and food businesses. The Volunteer Resources Grant from JLW will provide volunteers to support Dreaming Out Loud’s Farms at Kelly Miller and Fort Stanton, two community-based urban farms in Wards 7 and 8.
COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND GRANTS
Annandale United Methodist Church to cover the cost of providing milk and eggs benefiting over 3,500 individuals at their Mission Center food pantry.
Bread for the City to support their Food Program, with a focus on three areas where need consistently outpaces available resources: fresh produce, culturally appropriate pantry staples, and home delivery for homebound clients.
Bright Beginnings to support three critical food insecurity interventions (Farmers Market Operations & Curbside Groceries, Holiday Food Support, and Emergency Food Assistance) serving approximately 75 families (218 children and their parents) across three sites during FY26.
DC Food Project to support their Pantry Program providing access to nutritious snacks, shelf-stable groceries, toiletries, and quick-prep meals through their school-based pantries for approximately 1,000 students through a large-scale Back-to-School pantry distribution in August 2026.
DC Doors to purchase nutritious food and essential supplies, including groceries, fresh and nutritious food, snacks, bottled water, grab-and-go items, bags, storage materials, and other items needed to operate a food bank at their facility, Zoe’s Drop-in Center.
Food Justice DMV to supply Maseca and oil for their food distribution program (enabling approximately 915 distributions to families) to provide culturally-responsive food to the community they serve.
Martha’s Table to support their Martha’s Table Markets program, covering the cost of providing approximately 437 grocery bags, which include fruit, vegetables, seasonal produce items, protein, and shelf-stable pantry items, to families they serve.
PATHWAY GRANTS
Common Good City Farm to support their Summer Teen Entrepreneurship Program that challenges participants to identify environmental issues within their communities and enables them to address these challenges through innovation and entrepreneurship over a period of six weeks and focuses on creating safe, teen-centered spaces in the neighborhood. The Pathway Grant from JLW will cover the cost of 10 student stipends ($100 each) to enable students to participate in the program. Common Good City Farm’s mission is to build a more equitable community by growing, learning, cooking, and sharing fresh food together.
DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence to implement a needs assessment that will inform their understanding of service gaps and influence future program development. The Pathway Grant from JLW will cover a portion of the cost of advertising for their focus groups, which will specifically include survivors from specific populations including immigrants, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ individuals, and elder survivors. DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence’s mission is to build a community where domestic violence is replaced with human dignity.
Personal Care Foundation to distribute 150 full-sized personal care packages to individuals and families experiencing financial hardship. The Pathway Grant from JLW will cover the full cost of 150 care packages, which include shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, and menstrual products. The mission of Personal Care Foundation is to restore dignity through hygiene by addressing a gap that is often overlooked: access to full-size hygiene items.
Restoration Immigration Legal Aid to support immigration case work. The Pathway Grant from JLW will cover the cost of approximately 50 hours of legal assistant time. The mission of Restoration Immigration Legal Aid is to provide pro bono immigration legal assistance to the most vulnerable immigrants in the DC area, focusing on asylum-seekers and immigrant children who have experienced significant trauma and loss.