BFC In the News

There are those nonprofit executive directors who feel if they left today, the whole organization would crumble. And then there’s George Jones.

This spring, Bread for the City is expanding its food program by building City Orchard, a 2.75-acre fruit orchard in Beltsville.

For many people in Washington, helping the city’s most vulnerable means providing food, extra clothing or secondhand personal items.

There are few options for low-income D.C. residents. The Bread for the City single-room clinic — with its green walls, new equipment and a couple of dentist chairs — fills a big gap.

DC Brau, the District of Columbia’s first new brewery in decades, has found a unique way to give back.

I don’t look at this as a job. It’s destiny. Period.

Last week, Secretary Vilsack stopped by Bread for the City and joined National and Community Service CEO Patrick Corvington and Bread for the City President George Jones to underscore the administration’s commitments to ending hunger in America.

The leading provider of clean needles to drug addicts in the District to help stem the spread of AIDS plans to shut its doors by the end of the month, officials said Wednesday, in the city that has the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the country.