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Our Region, Our Giving 2023
Our Region, Our Giving is a snapshot of 2020 & 2021 giving by members & non-members of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, now known as Philanthropy DMV, in the Greater Washington Region. Download the full report below.
Washington Aids Partnership: Changing the Course of an Epidemic 1988-2023
In the early 1980s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic was spreading rapidly, creating fear and devastating communities. Eager to take action, the Ford Foundation invited the Washington, D.C. region, which had the fifth-highest infection rate in the nation, to become one of its partner sites in local-level response. The priority: “make grants to the community as quickly as possible.” Twenty Washington, D.C.-area foundations, led by the Meyer Foundation, joined together to match the Ford Foundation funding of $500,000 and launch an unprecedented philanthropic response.
