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DC's public aquarium now offers fishy birthday parties
Alison Gillespie
Monday, June 22, 2015
Starting this summer, parents can host birthday parties among the fish, crabs and turtles at the Aquatic Resources Education Center in Anacostia Park.
Anacostia River
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Education
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Parks & Public Space
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Sustainability
Anacostia
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UDC a leader in urban gardening research
Whitney Pipkin
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
The University of the District of Columbia is the only exclusively urban university in the country created to provide agricultural training to the public. As such, it's uniquely positioned to help urban farmers.
Education
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Food Systems
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Asheru�emcee, DC native, educator�uses hip-hop for change
Emily Rabbitt
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
“Hip-hop is all grown up now. KRS-One is 50. I’m forty....[But] hip-hop is an approach, a world view, and hip-hop-heads are in academia, in corporate life.”
Education
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Congress Heights
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Natural light, non-"scary" stairways and a new maker space: what's on tap for MLK Library
Amy Rogers Nazarov
Monday, November 10, 2014
As stakeholders narrow down options for renovating D.C.'s flagship library, forward-thinking ideas--like opening up previously inaccessible floors, a new auditorium, and a "fab lab"--emerge.
City Planning
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Parks & Public Space
Downtown
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DC teens show the world through their eyes--and their camera lenses
Christina Sturdivant
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Nonprofit Critical Exposure has been helping teens express themselves through photography for a decade.
Education
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Brookland
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Shaw
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The Hill
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"Cards Against Urbanity" is exactly as hilarious as you'd expect
Rachel Kaufman
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The card game, designed by a bunch of DC planners and architects, pokes fun at new urbanists but also aims to teach a serious lesson.
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Tech center opening brings a 'new day' to Ward 8
Caroline Dobuzinskis
Friday, August 15, 2014
The tech demonstration center on the former campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital aims to elevate opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship in Congress Heights.
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Does geography equal destiny?
Christina Sturdivant
Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Teens in all eight wards are surrounded by peer pressure to have sex and a lack of knowledge about how to be safe. So why is it that the majority of pregnant teens are in just two wards?
Economic Development
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Education
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From DC to Denver: School gardens growing next generation of leaders
Jamie Siebrase
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
School gardens, a second classroom where hands-on learning reigns supreme, are cropping up across the nation. Two cities – D.C. and Denver – are changing the way their gardens grow with innovative additions to their programming.
Education
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Health and Wellbeing
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Sustainability
H Street
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Georgetown/Glover Park
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Elevation Q&A: Trayon White, founder of Man Power DC
Christina Sturdivant
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Southeast D.C. native Trayon White speaks with Elevation DC about the nonprofit he created that keeps Ward 8 middle-schoolers on the right track.
Education
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For Good / Non Profit
Congress Heights
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Living Classroom�s Green Team restores forest in middle of DC
Whitney Pipkin
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The foundation educates youth and young adults while improving Kingman Island for future generations.
Anacostia River
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HOPE Project brings D.C. natives out of poverty, into IT jobs
Whitney Pipkin
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The HOPE Project, also called "the Harvard of the hood," takes DC residents working minimum-wage jobs and trains them for careers in IT.
Economic Development
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Education
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DC universities reveal hidden treasures for those who know where to look
Amy Rogers Nazarov
Tuesday, January 07, 2014
Read on for a roundup of some of the hidden—yet open to the public—gems tucked away at local universities, and make time to explore one or more in 2014.
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H Street
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Brookland
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Georgetown/Glover Park
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NoMa
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Shaw
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Foggy Bottom/Golden Triangle
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Tenleytown/Van Ness/Cleveland Park
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D.C. nonprofits start charter schools to ready adults for the workforce
Whitney Pipkin
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
D.C.'s charter school boom isn't just for kids. The public charter school board recently approved the seventh adult charter school in the city. Here's why these schools are an essential part of giving District residents a leg up.
Community Development
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Education
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Workforce Development
Columbia Heights-Mount Pleasant
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Rhode Island Avenue Corridor
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Marriott job training program gives District residents a chance
Lisa Gillespie
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
A training program is aiming to place up to 600 District residents in hospitality jobs. The ambitious program's goal is to fight unemployment in D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods.
Community Development
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Economic Development
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Education
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For Good / Non Profit
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Downtown
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