Capital Cause Members Celebrate 50th Anniversary of March on Washington with POTUS
Fifty Capital Cause Young Philanthropist Members received reserved seating tickets to the 50th Anniversary Ceremony for the March on Washington Let Freedom Ring Ceremony. Together they listened to President Obama give a speech in the same place Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke 50 years ago, and shook hands with Oprah, Jamie Foxx and Benjamin Jealous. President Clinton and President Carter also spoke during the ceremony and challenged those attending to respect the work done in the past, but to invest time into the present toward making the future a better place. Says Kezia M. Williams, Chair...
read moreYoung Philanthropist Giving Circles – Team #DanceDigDine Raise $2,074 for the ISH
Three Young Philanthropists Fund “Healthy Living Bootcamp” for 25 DC Youth in Ward 5 by Zebedee Williams (June 4, 2013) In Washington, DC, 23% of all children are obese, which is twice the amount it was 10 years ago. With childhood obesity rates skyrocketing, there is clearly a need to take action. A group of young professionals, participating in Capital Cause Young Philanthropists (YP) Giving Circles Projects, recently worked together for nearly 45 days to raise $2,074 to send 25 children to a healthy-living bootcamp. Capital Cause YP Giving Circles Projects involve young...
read moreYoung Philanthropist Giving Circle – Team #SLSL Raises $2,042 for DC School
Young Philanthropist Giving (Team #SLSL) Raises $2,042 for a DC School by Zebedee Williams (June 4, 2013) Literacy is the building block of all education, so why do most people seem content with 33% of students reading and writing below basic levels of literacy? One Capital Cause Young Philanthropist (YP) Giving Circle – Team Spread Literacy, Spread Light (Team #SLSL) – recently crowd-funded a grant toPotomac Lighthouse Charter School (PLPCS) in order to help decrease the number students struggling to read in the Washington, D.C. area. With one in every 3 adults in Washington, D.C. being...
read moreCapital Featured in Black Enterprise During Participation in #BlackHack in Newark
Check out this great Black Enterprise article mentioning Capital Cause at the Blerdology #BlackHack event in Newark, NJ Read here:...
read moreMarc Bacani – Capital Cause Young Philanthropist – Produces A Food Desert Video With Clint Smith
(March 28, 2013) Marc Bacani, Capital Cause Young Philanthropist, and another young Changemaker, Clint Smith, produced a video detailing the negative effects that food deserts have on low-income communities in the Washington, DC area. As a teacher, Clint Smith sees how the daily battles we fight in public health, education, housing, and poverty are so deeply connected. In DC, Wards 7 and 8, which have the District’s highest poverty rates, also have the city’s highest obesity rates. What his students do or don’t eat affects how they are able to perform when they come to his...
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