Breakfast and lunch spot Soulfull Cafe in Rockville is on a mission to feed people — but its goals go way beyond that.

Organizations that offer free Thanksgiving meals say inflation has had them readjusting their plans.

Local nonprofits say the cuts will make it harder for them to serve homeless youth amid the coronavirus pandemic.

December typically brings in a substantial portion of nonprofit revenue.

Excellent local non-profit Food & Friends, which delivers meals to area residents living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other serious illnesses, has issued a call for help next this week, as the snow storm has hampered its ability to deliver meals to its clients. If you have a reliable vehicle, especially one with 4-wheel drive, please consider getting in touch with them and volunteering. Their message is below, more details here. On Thursday, February 11th,…

City Desk recently ran an item about how Street Sense, D.C.’s homeless newspaper, was one of the only local publications thriving during the recession. As a volunteer member of the board of directors of Street Sense, the piece made me cringe just a little bit, even though I get what reporter Chris Lewis was trying to say: more and more people are turning to jobs selling the paper, so circulation is up. But make…

The Save WEAVE campaign may have allowed that domestic violence assistance non-profit to stay open, but with the start of the new fiscal year today, other local groups are facing similar financial problems. House of Ruth, the District’s largest nonprofit aimed at helping homeless women and children, most of whom have been victims of domestic violence, this week found out that it has lost nearly $500,000 in city funding, as the Washington Post’s Susan…

Last week we told you about the Save WEAVE initiative, an effort to prevent local non-profit Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE) from being forced to permanently close its doors as it faced the loss of nearly all of its funding from the District. Today the group, which offers assistance to victims of domestic violence, announced that it has already brought in $85,000, its initial target, two days ahead of schedule, and is now turning…

Local non-profit WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence) is on the verge of shutting its doors. The group, which has helped literally tens of thousands of local women and children escape domestic violence over the last decade, has lost more or less all of its city funding this year, and WEAVE’s board of directors were recently forced to move ahead with the process of shutting down. The Post ran a big story about WEAVE’s plight…

Photo by IntangibleArts.Despite the weather, it’s been quite the unpleasant weekend for local organizations in the wake of Mayor Fenty’s newest 2010 budget revision, released late on Friday. Fenty cut approximately $12 million in earmarks for community nonprofits in this version, leaving the budget with a total of $8.3 million in grants for nonprofits — a significant decrease from the $47 million that was handed out last year. The Post notes that the budget…