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…