2025-05-01 WHC Collects: The Bookshelf Project WHC Collects: The Bookshelf Project May 1 - May 31 WHC Collects: The Bookshelf Project If you've been to Sunday Stuffing, MLK Day of Service, or Mitzvah Day recently, you've seen volunteers putting bookcases together for donation to The Bookshelf Project. During the month of May, WHC is collecting books to fill those shelves for families in need across the DMV. Click the button below and have the books sent ... Learn More
9:00 am - 11:30 am Event Series WHC in the DMV: Food & Friends May 2 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am Event Series WHC in the DMV: Food & Friends Join other WHC members volunteering to pack meals with Food & Friends, the only community-based organization in the D.C. region providing home-delivered medically tailored meals, medically tailored groceries and medical nutrition therapy to our neighbors living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses. Learn More
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series WHC In the DMV: Bingo With Seniors May 4 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Event Series WHC In the DMV: Bingo With Seniors BINGO - That's the name of the game, as our volunteers will spend a couple of hours at the Charles E. Smith Life Communities on the second Sunday of most months, volunteering to play bingo with some of our Jewish seniors (what a mitzvah!) Learn More
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Event Series Hunger Project May 4 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm Event Series Hunger Project Volunteers – adults, children, individuals, families, and groups – put on hairnets, gloves, and aprons and carefully measure and package ingredients that become over 10,000 nutritious meals for the underserved in our area. Learn More
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Social Justice Discussion: Allies of Federal Workers May 9 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Social Justice Discussion: Allies of Federal Workers For those who are concerned with federal layoffs but are not directly impacted. And we will discuss ways that we can be helpful to our friends and neighbors during these difficult times. If you are a federal worker affected by the ongoing layoffs, we have a separate gathering at the same time this week, and ... Learn More
Featured 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm Special Screening & Talkback Discussion: “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round” Featured May 15 @ 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm Special Screening & Talkback Discussion: “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round” When five Howard University students sat on a segregated Maryland carousel in 1960, the arrests made headlines. When the largely Jewish community near Glen Echo Amusement Park joined the Black students in picketing, the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history was born. Learn More
10:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Rock Creek Conservation Project May 18 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Rock Creek Conservation Project Invasive plants are a major threat to our fragile forests, and stopping their spread helps allow native plants to thrive in the understory. Learn More
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Series WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH May 27 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Series WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Volunteer with us as we help feed families at the NIH Children’s Inn, where families stay when children receive experimental treatment on campus. Learn More
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May 18 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm WHC in the DMV: Rock Creek Conservation Project Non-WHC Site Find out more »
May 27 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Event Series WHC in the DMV: Dinner for Children’s Inn at NIH Non-WHC Site Find out more »
