Housing Discrimination – SOI Bill
Finding a home is a person’s most important expense. A home allows people to have a sense of stability to think about other aspects of life, like finding better jobs and making sure their children are successful in school. When people are unable to find safe,...
Celebrating Black History Month
February is Black History Month. Here at WHC, we are celebrating the many amazing contributions and lives of black women. All month long, we will be highlighting some of these women on Facebook and Instagram as our #WomenCrushWednesday. We are celebrating women like...
Windows of Opportunity 2019
Join us for the evening and enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres and an open bar. Mingle, listen to music, and cheer on this year's Women's Housing Champion - Chickie Grayson. All funds raised support the Women's Housing Coalition in breaking the cycle of homelessness for the...
Give 365
During the holidays our sense of compassion and humanity is heightened. We become more aware of the world around us and the people we tend to overlook. We spend more time trying to give back to the people who need it the most. We donate on Giving Tuesday, drop off...
A New Year For Our Residents
Have you made any New Year’s Resolutions this year? It’s January and most of us are using this month to make a fresh start and work on some resolutions for the year ahead. For us, that often means setting goals around self-improvement, our careers, or giving back to...
Inside the House
Every Dollar Counts “Coming here I believed that they saved my life because the path I was going down was not a good path, and here is teaching me how to be responsible and a productive member of society again.” —Leslie, WHC resident These are not easy times we live...
Make Your Donation Go Further with Matching Gifts
Looking for a way to make your donation do more? It’s worth asking your employer if they participate in gift matching: where companies match their employees’ donations to non-profit organizations. 65% of Fortune 500 companies and many other smaller companies match...
How Women Protect Themselves From Sexual Assault
Like us, you’ve probably been swept up in the current discussions surrounding sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. We recently came across an article and a social media post about an experiment Social Researcher Jackson Katz frequently does in his classes &...
Midterm Elections and Voter Turnout
Midterm elections are right around the corner and voter turnout during midterm elections is notoriously low. Only about 40% of eligible voters participate in midterms, while during presidential elections it ranges from 50-60%. The importance of all eligible voters...
New Family Case Manager At WHC
Thanks to a grant we received from the Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle this summer, we have been able to add a new member to the WHC team! We are pleased to introduce Maria Wetherington, our new family case manager. Before our new case manager hire, we had one family...