Rachel Kaufman : Features

Elevation DC will be taking a break this upcoming week in observance of Memorial Day. There will be no issue published on May 28. We'll be back with more news and features about where D.C. is going on June 4.

When companies leverage their employees' expertise for good, great things can happen. Not convinced of the "power of pro bono"? Read our coverage from the Billion + Change conference.

DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative's executive director Ayris Scales speaks to Elevation about how to improve the lives of children from "cradle to college."

Local arts nonprofit Art Enables, which works with D.C. artists with intellectual or developmental disabilities, just celebrated its 11th anniversary. To celebrate, we put together our favorite pieces from some of Art Enables' artists.

Can Ward 5 change its industrial warehouses and trash transfer stations into neighborhood amenities and sources of good jobs? The recently announced Ward 5 Industrial Land Transformation Task Force aims to find out.

Greetings and welcome to the first issue of Elevation DC, a new weekly magazine dedicated to the innovators, job creators, and disruptors who've chosen D.C. on which to make their mark.