funding - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:15:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png funding - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 DC Public School Librarians Staged a Silent “Read In” Protest to Save Their Jobs https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/06/03/dc-public-school-librarians-staged-a-silent-read-in-protest-to-save-their-jobs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-public-school-librarians-staged-a-silent-read-in-protest-to-save-their-jobs Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:37:08 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1534385 Yesterday morning, a group of DC Public Schools (DCPS) librarians gathered outside downtown DC’s John A. Wilson building, where Mayor Muriel Bowser has an office, for a protest. But shhhh—instead of marching with signs, the group took a different approach. At the “read in,” each one grabbed a book and read in silence.  The protest […]

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Wait, Can Donald Trump Actually Cut Off Funding to My City Because It’s “Anarchist”? https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/04/wait-can-donald-trump-actually-cut-off-funding-to-my-city-because-its-anarchist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wait-can-donald-trump-actually-cut-off-funding-to-my-city-because-its-anarchist Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:26:51 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1261278 Yesterday, the mayors of DC, New York City, Portland, and Seattle issued a joint statement condemning President Donald Trump’s directive to restrict federal funding to their jurisdictions. “Our cities, and the millions of Americans who we represent, are not President Trump’s political pawns,” the statement says. “We are confronting unprecedented challenges—fighting back a pandemic and […]

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A New Funding Source Offers $500 Micro-Grants to Young DC-Area Writers and Musicians https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/01/a-new-funding-source-offers-500-micro-grants-to-young-dc-area-writers-and-musicians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-funding-source-offers-500-micro-grants-to-young-dc-area-writers-and-musicians Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:37:06 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1132150 It’s no secret this is a challenging time for writers and musicians, with closed reading and performance venues as well as many lost day jobs. One segment of this population in the DC area—those between ages 18 and 35—now has a new opportunity for both financial support and audience-building, via Emergent Seed, an organization offering […]

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