What a fantastic night! Thank you to everyone who attended our 40th Anniversary Celebration!
A special thank you to all our donors who helped make this event possible.
For four decades, LISC DC has labored in solidarity with residents to address the challenges of each day, from disinvestment and bankruptcy, to gentrification and displacement, from epidemics of the moment to long-standing structural racism – all with the goal of building a community that provides opportunity for everyone and every neighborhood.
LISC DC at 40: Celebrating a Legacy of Community Development, highlighted the accomplishments and challenges, celebrating partners and supporters, offered lessons learned, and promoted LISC DC’s upcoming endeavors. The evening was an opportunity to honor and reconnect with our funders, non-profit partners, and supporters. It has been a successful and challenging 40 years, and we look forward to 40 more!
Check out the slideshow below to see the moments captured!
Congratulations to the 40th Anniversary Awardees!
Stan Jackson, President and CEO of the Anacostia Economic Development Corporation, a Ward 8 nonprofit, is honored with the Dr. Arthur Flemming Award, named for the founding LISC board member who served five U.S. Presidents, among many other educational and civic leadership positions. A former government executive, a Ward 8 resident, and now a nonprofit leader, Jackson’s recent work includes bringing the first new housing to St. Elizabeth’s campus, over 250 beautiful and historic affordable apartments
Marty Mellet of Jubilee Housing is honored as a Trail Maker. In the same neighborhoods where he was an attorney in the 1980s, he helped refugees gain a foothold, and today Mellet is working on seven buildings in the Adams Morgan and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods, under Jubilee’s model of building justice housing—affordable housing with services in high cost neighborhoods.
LISC honored three leaders who are at the forefront of new visions. Diana Movius founded Dance Loft in the attic of a decrepit theater in Ward 4 and then convened a troupe of developers for a new state of the art dance facility with energy-efficient housing along an underinvested commercial strip. The Capital Market is kindling engagement and building community power, bringing residents together around food justice and to reimagine what flourishing means along the transit rich Blue Line corridor of Prince George’s County. And, Rahsaan Bernard, President of Building Bridges Across the River is recognized for the effort to build a landmark infrastructure amenity—the 11th Street Bridge Park over the long-neglected Anacostia River—in an equitable manner.
Click here to learn more about the incredible work of all these leaders.
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