Blog / BFC Updates

Today is Do More 24—a community-wide day of giving. And today is the perfect day to help ALL DC residents live healthy lives! Bread for the City needs your support.

Every donation you make today will be matched, dollar-for-dollar up to $15,000!

As you’ve probably heard by now, our 2017 Good Hope Gala was a massive success, raising over $1.26M in support of our programs. Nearly 500 people gathered together to celebrate all that we’ve achieved as a community and it was grand!

Every day, Bread for the City does a whole lot of good. In just one day, we treat ­­­65 patients in our medical clinic, provide 270 families with food, counsel 28 people in our legal clinic, and so much more. Wow!

We know you don’t need any more reasons to join us for a fun night of dancing and philanthropy, but we’ve got some anyway! Our 2017 Good Hope Gala will feature an amazing line-up of auction items…

Dinner and Live Auction: It will be a night of celebration, philanthropy, and dancing that you won’t want to miss!

I find myself struggling to find the right words to convey how grateful I am for what you make possible each day.

Over the past twelve months you have uplifted Bread for the City. You saw how our clients struggled, how hard our staff and volunteers worked, and you were moved to act. Thank you.

From all of us in the Bread for the City family, I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

With love and gratitude,

George A. Jones
Chief Executive Officer

Bread for the City Community,

Tuesday’s election results have stirred up a wide range of emotions for many of us in the Bread for the City family. The past year was filled with hopes and dreams as well as angst and anxiety as our process of electing a new president unfolded. Forty-three years ago, our founders committed to fighting poverty and the conditions that perpetuate it. And for 43 years, we have fought. Many of the promises made in this campaign – including targeting marginalized groups, eliminating the Affordable Care Act, and limiting charitable giving incentives – threaten our ability to serve our community and to do it in an atmosphere of dignity and respect.

Last Thursday, Bread for the City had the honor of hosting Civil Rights icon Congressman John Lewis and author Andrew Aydin at our SE Center for a book signing of March III, the third in a series of graphic novels.