Community groups are excellent resources for schoolyard greening projects; They can provide volunteers, assistance or simply local knowledge of your community or site. Listed below are community groups and resources for the District of Columbia.
LOCAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS:
Anacostia Garden Club: For more info, contact Diane Fleming at
(202) 582-6583
Capital Hill Garden Club: For more info, contact Wendy at (202) 543-7539
or wblair@npr.org
Cardozo Shaw
Neighborhood Association
Chevy
Chase Citizens Association
The Citizens Association
of Georgetown
Cleveland
Park Historic Society
DC Smart Schools: For more info, contact Jeff Wilkes at jwilkes@earthlink.net
Dupont Circle
Citizens Association
East of
The River Technology Collaborative
Eastland Gardens Flower Club: For more info, contact Deloris Crim
at delorisd@aol.com
Fairlawn Citizens Association
Foxhall Community: The Citizens Association
Franciscan
Monastery Garden Guild
Friends
of Pigeon Park
Friends
of Walter Pierce Park
Frederick Douglas Memorial Gardens: For more info, contact Diane Dale
at Dale@fdgfdg.org
The
Georgetown Garden Club
Greater Brookland Garden
Club
Greater DC Cares
Hillcrest Community Civic
Association
Kalorama Citizens
Association
Logan Circle Community
Association
Marshall Heights Community
Development Organization, Inc.
Palisades Citizens
Association
Penn-Branch Citizens/Civic Association: For more info, call 202-584-6165
Potomac Conservancy
Shaw Neighborhood Improvement
Council
Southwest (DC) Neighborhood
Assembly
Washington East Foundation: For more info, contact (202) 584-2544
INFORMATION ON DC NEIGHBORHOODS:
Bloomingdale
Capitol Hill
Cleveland Park
Columbia
Heights
Crestwood
Petworth
Shaw Community News
and Information
Truxton Circle
Neighborhood
Advisory
Neighborhood Commissions
The 37 Advisory Neighborhood Commissions (ANCs) are subdivisions
of the District's Wards. Representatives from ANCs are elected to advise
the District government on issues relating to zoning, social service programs,
health, police protection, sanitation, and recreation.This
site gives an overview of ANCs and contains detailed information about
individual ANCs.
NeighborhoodInfo
DC
NeighborhoodInfo DC works to support community organizations,
neighborhood leadership and residents and government as they work to improve
the quality of life for people throughout the District of Columbia. On
this web site, you'll find data on D.C. neighborhoods — population,
race and ethnicity, income, poverty, employment, education, public assistance,
single-parent families, low weight and teen births, income, housing, crime
and more.