Builders’ Ball
Organizing
Committee
2008 Selected Charities
Covenant House Washington
Washington, DC
Who They Are/What They Do –
Covenant House Washington (CHW) is the Washington, DC affiliate of Covenant House International, the nation’s largest privately funded childcare agency responding to the needs of older youth (16-24) who suffer from homelessness, abuse and neglect. CHW serves youth from the entire DC metropolitan area and provides a comprehensive array of wraparound services, which include housing (short and long-term), street outreach, education, mental healthcare, child care, parenting preparation, advocacy and prevention services for younger children.
Their Project –
Support the Artisans Program, a job training initiative in woodworking which prepares disadvantaged, out-of-school youth in the Washington, DC area to enter the workforce with a decent paying job and a career path in the building trades, such as carpentry, construction and millwork.
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes
Rockville, MD
Who They Are/What They Do –
Jewish Foundation for Group Homes enables adults with disabilities to be valued, independent, and integrated members of the community through the provision and support of a home environment where residents can learn and experience independent living styles. Within its mission, JFGH provides programs and services, which increase the independence, dignity, choice and community inclusion of the individuals it serves. JFGH provides training to enhance independent living skills, personal assistance with daily living, and long-term support.
Their Project –
Support to modify their inaccessible homes to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act and to meet the requirements for their aging residents who will require mobility assistance. Improvements include creating wheelchair ramps; widening doorways and/or hallways; bathroom retrofitting to include wheelchair accessible showers and support bars; kitchen retrofitting to ensure wheelchair height work spaces and faucets; and safety modifications.
Perry School Community Services Center
Washington, DC
Who They Are/What They Do –
Perry School Community Services Center, Inc., through a collaborative comprehensive and integrated approach to social services, youth development and economic empowerment, eradicates poverty, its causes and consequences, resulting in positive outcomes for youth, adults, and families within its defined service area. Their goals are to help families out of poverty and toward living wage incomes and preventing young people from living in poverty as adults through college degrees and marketable skills.
Their Project –
Perry School Community Services Center’s program will assess residents for interests in and aptitude for development-related work including plumbing, HVAC, electrical construction, architecture and other construction related jobs. They are planning a pre-construction training program and have approached Clark Construction. This program will prepare people for construction-related jobs
Washington Architectural Foundation
Their Mission –
Provides education and resources to build a better Washington, DC. Foundation volunteers provide hundreds of hours of service in DC neighborhoods and schools each year through three programs – Architecture in the Schools; Community Design Services and Design Forum.
Their Project –
Support of the CANSTRUCTION program held yearly to assist in donating food to the Capital Area Food Bank. CANSTRUCTION is a design competition in which teams from the architecture/engineering/construction industry build fanciful structures out of canned goods. These structures are on display for a week and judged. After the judging, the structures are taken apart and the cans and boxes of food are donated to the Capital Area Food Bank.
Builders’ Ball
c/o WBC Foundation
1620 I Street, NW, Suite 810
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 861-8007
Fax: (202) 861-8008 |
