Affordable housing in the city is limited. Residents of Terrace Manor endured years of neglect, leading to unsafe living conditions in the affordable housing complex. Due to the conditions, residents were relocated and the building boarded up.
To preserve affordable housing for residents of Ward 8, Capital Impact and partners are investing in the redevelopment of Terrace Manor. Investments like these can help create community stability and provide individuals with one of the most vital resources for success: housing.
For the second year, our Co-op Innovation Award invested in leadership organizations that are helping build community wealth and create quality jobs.
Along with education programs for children up to second grade, Martha’s Table’s new kitchens provide healthy food for community members. Not only are education and healthy food important…
Quality education is critical to driving brighter futures for children and their communities. Martha’s Table uses a “Strong by 8” strategy, which focuses holistically on advancing early childhood development. Through the age of eight, children go through a critical formative period that lays the groundwork for future achievement.
Capital Impact also tool time out to acknowledge our staff members’ commitment to our values. At our offsite, we celebrated “Inclusive,” which anchored the activities of the day.
Non-perishable goods are vital in any pantry, especially for families for whom food is scarce. By supporting healthy food programs like Capital Area Food Bank, Capital Impact supports transformative change for communities that have seen historical disinvestment.
Investing in creating vibrant communities through social services like affordable housing reduces the barriers that low-income individuals, often people of color, face.
Senior Hispanic grandmother and her young adult granddaughter and grandson are smiling and looking at the camera. They just completed a marathon or 5k race for breast cancer awareness charity. They are wearing pink athletic clothing and breast cancer awareness ribbons.
Capital Impact’s long history of supporting affordable housing for underserved communities played a strong role in its selection to manage D.C.’s new housing fund.
