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Catalogue: Winter 2012 News
Read the full Winter 2012 newsletter right here.
December is a big month for the Catalogue for Philanthropy. In addition to promoting the 2012 Catalogue and our new group of nonprofits, we also hosted our 10th anniversary celebration, Inspiration to Action. We hope that many of you were able to join us for the festivities.
The Catalogue team was honored to celebrate 10 years of creating meaningful connections between caring citizens and worthy community causes with such a passionate group of nonprofits, donors, friends, and other community supporters. The event featured a reception, nonprofit performance showcase, and intimate benefit dinner. A highlight of the dinner was a live auction, featuring ‘exclusive experiences,’ which raised over $20,000 for the Catalogue.
Jane Harman and the Harman Family Foundation also made a surprise announcement — a Challenge Grant, which matched new and increasing gifts made or pledged on December 3rd to either the Catalogue or our charities. The grant raised $200,000 for Catalogue nonprofits at the dinner — $100,000 in pledges matched by the $100,000 challenge: a great way to kick off the giving season!
As always, the Catalogue for Philanthropy is grateful for your continued support. While you browse through the 2012 Catalogue and select your favorite nonprofits for this year, we hope that the Catalogue for Philanthropy is one of them. Please consider making a gift to support the work that we do this holiday season, and all year long.
Warmest regards,
The Catalogue Team
Catalogue Milestone: 10th Anniversary
We’re looking forward to celebrating 10 years with our awesome community of nonprofits today!
Give It Up, DC!
We couldn’t be more jazzed about the second year of our partnership with Washington City Paper — the result of which is the 2012 Charitable Donation Guide in last week’s edition, featuring our new class of nonprofits:
[…] But if Thanksgiving is the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season, it can also be the kickoff to some holiday-minded generosity, which is where this week’s Washington City Paper comes in. For the second year in what we intend to become an annual tradition, City Paper has worked with the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington to produce Give It Up, DC, our guide to local nonprofits that need — and deserve — your support.
Thanks to a handy “Donate” button, you can support any of these great community-based nonprofits directly from the City Paper’s site. So learn more about them right this way!
Thinking Of You
Good morning, Greater Washington. We very much hope that you all stayed safe and well over the past couple days!
As we mentioned on the Catalogue main page: if you see someone, or know someone, who is homeless and in need of help, call the DC Shelter Hotline at 1-800-535-7252. (Thanks to our friends at Friendship Place for this good tip.)
And for information on needs and activities of our local Human Service non-profits, you can follow them on our Twitter list right here.
Catalogue Milestones: 2005 & 2006
By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator
As we approach our celebration of the 10th Catalogue for Philanthropy, we look back to see how the Catalogue has grown and evolved.
In its third and fourth years, the Catalogue for Philanthropy continued growing — and marked its first significant milestone in fundraising for nonprofits. In 2005, Catalogue broke the $1 million mark with $1,778,181 raised in the first three years of publication, and went on to increase its annual fundraising level by 43% in 2006. In 2006, the Catalogue also became an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and transitioned its advisory board into a governing board.
The following charities were featured for the first time in print either in 2005 or 2006, and are relisted in the Catalogue this year:
– Nueva Vida offers support services for Latinas affected by cancer.
– DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence provides resources for thousands of domestic violence survivors in DC.
– Anacostia Watershed Society is an environmental group seeking safe, clean, swimmable and fishable Anacostia River
– Fair Chance builds capacity for nonprofits serving DC at-risk youth.
– Lorton Community Action Center works to break the cycle of poverty in Lorton, VA by providing community-based social services.
– theatreWashington promotes, represents, and supports Washington’s professional theatre community.
And the following nonprofits, originally featured in 2005 or 2006, were re-certified to remain on the Catalogue website this year:
– Community of Hope provides low-income, homeless, and underserved families with healthcare, housing, and education.
– ARRIBA Center offers employment training, job placement, bilingual, and advocacy services for minority disabled populations.
– Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. (DTSB&Co.) creates, presents, and tours dance works with a unique Asian American movement aesthetic.
Catalogue Milestones: 2004
By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator
As we approach our celebration of the 10th Catalogue for Philanthropy, we look back to see how the Catalogue has grown and evolved over the years. In 2004, its second year of publication, the Catalogue continued to grow — in size, in geographic scope, and in dollars raised for network nonprofits:
– The Catalogue featured 51 new nonprofits in the print, up from 31 in the inaugural edition
– Catalogue also expanded its scope to the Greater Washington region, featuring nonprofits from DC, Maryland, and Virginia
– The Catalogue partnered with an additional corporate sponsor in 2004
– From 2003 to 2004, Catalogue increased the amount of money raised for and by our nonprofits by 14%, with an annual total of $548,830 in donations.
The following nonprofits, originally featured in 2004, were selected to be re-featured in the 2012 print Catalogue:
– Academy of Hope: adult students gain real world skills in math, reading, and writing
– Alternative House: a dynamic system of services designed to keep young people off the streets
– Arlington Free Clinic: free health care to some 1,400 Arlingtonians a year
– Borromeo Housing: structure, stability, and security that teen parents need to provide for themselves and their babies
– Brainfood: an after-school program that gets at-risk students off the streets and into the kitchen
– Calvary Women’s Services: where 150 women find “a safe, caring place for tonight; support, hope, and change for tomorrow”
– Coalition for Smarter Growth: coordinators of the campaign for a better way to grow in the greater DC region
– Falls Church-McClean Children’s Center: a full-day, early childhood education program for 2-5 year olds
– GALA: home of the National Center for Latino Performing Arts and only performance space in Columbia Heights
– Homestretch: two full years of transitional housing, budget counseling, job skills training, and placement assistance
– Horton’s Kids: a second family to over 1,500 children from the Ward 8 housing projects
– Thrive DC: generous portions of food, along with help and hope, to Washington’s hard-to-reach homeless
– Top Banana Home Delivered Groceries: simple and user-friendly grocery shopping and delivery for 500 elderly and disabled people
– Washington Youth Garden, Friends of the National Arboretum: garden science is the medium and life skills are the message
– Women Thrive Worldwide: focus on women in developing countries; advocate for change in US international assistance and trade policies
And the following nonprofits, originally featured in 2004, were re-certified to remain on the Catalogue website this year:
– City Arts: beautiful murals and mosaics created by local, inner-city youth
– TrailsforYouth.org: mountain biking that introduces inner-city youngsters to the natural world and its life lessons
– Washington Jesuit Academy: rigorous, local middle school for boys with 75 students and a devoted team of educators
Getting Connected with the Catalogue
By Marie LeBlanc, Community Partnerships Coordinator
Nonprofit collaboration is a hot-button term these days. With a network of over 300 of the best small nonprofits in greater Washington, Catalogue nonprofits are in great position to learn from and collaborate with each other.
This past Monday night, the Catalogue offered the first of many opportunities for Catalogue nonprofits to come together in a casual and informal setting at the Catalogue September Happy Hour. The happy hour event brought together nonprofit staff and other Catalogue supporters to meet each other, connect, network, and begin strengthening relationships among the community. Catalogue staff, including President Barbara Harman, was on hand to meet and greet the 80+ event attendees.
The new Catalogue happy hour series follows on the heels of Catalogue’s “From the Field” project, in which Catalogue staff Marie LeBlanc and Sherika Brooks spend time on the ground with at least two nonprofits a month. These two nonprofit outreach initiatives are a response to many nonprofits’ expressed desire to connect with other nonprofits in the network, as well as Catalogue staff. We’ve heard over and again that many nonprofits — especially the smaller ones — struggle with similar issues, and that great benefit can come from simply sharing these struggles (and successes) with others who can relate. The Catalogue is privileged to offer the opportunity for small nonprofit leaders to do just that — whether over a glass of wine or cup of coffee. We look forward to continuing this series of nonprofit networking events into next year!
Thank you to all who attended this week’s happy hour — we hope to see you at the next one! Have suggestions for future events for the Catalogue network? Miss out this time and want to hear about our next event? Leave us a comment and let us know.
Catalogue Milestones: 2003
Good morning, Catalogue friends! We are looking forward to our 10th anniversary and launch event, coming up on December 3.
So to start celebrating both that anniversary and our network of awesome local nonprofits, we’ll be counting down the 10 weeks to December 3 right here — and chatting a bit about several “Catalogue Milestones” from each year, each week.
Let’s start from the beginning: 2003, the first year of the Catalogue …
– The 1st print Catalogue for Philanthropy, focused on DC charities, is mailed to 30,000 high net worth individuals in the greater Washington region
– The 1st Catalogue engages 20 reviewers and 3 community partners: Harman, Meyer, and Cafritz Foundations
– 250 people celebrate the launch of the 1st Catalogue at Shakespeare Theatre Lansburgh Theatre
– The Catalogue team includes 2 staff members; 1 corporate sponsor supports the Catalogue
We’d also like to give an extra shout-out to the two nonprofits that both appeared in the 1st Catalogue and will appear in the 10th:
– Dance Place: “is a hub of activity where a 40-week presenting season, a bustling dance school, and a neighborhood cultural center thrive on each others’ energy.”
– Healthy Babies Project: ” aims to reduce the rates of infant death and low birth weight and provide comprehensive and structured health, prenatal, and childbirth education services.”
Announcing: the Catalogue Class of 2012-13
Congratulations! Our review team has spoken and we have selected the seventy-four high-impact, local nonprofits that will appear in this year’s Catalogue. The 10th anniversary Catalogue will include a wide and deep range of arts, nature, human service, education, and internationally-focused organizations, include thirty-one that are brand new to the Catalogue.
A few of these nonprofits have been a vital part of the DC region for decades, others just sprang on to the scene in the past ten years (or less). Our new nonprofits represent an array of missions and aims: combatting “summer slide” in DC’s public school students, bring the art of photography to neighborhoods around the city, educating young entrepreneurs at an Arlington bike shop, providing affordable housing to the homeless and mentally ill, mentoring young men in Prince George’s County, and improving health among indigenous children.
See the full list of 2012/2013 Catalogue nonprofits right here.
And check out the nonprofits that will be re-featured on the Catalogue website here.