Film & Discussion: Decolonizing Mental Health

Online Event

The month of July is designated as "BIPOC Mental Health Month" in order to bring awareness to the unique mental health challenges and needs of historically disenfranchised or oppressed racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Black, Indigenous peoples, and other People of Color (BIPOC) experience a broad spectrum of ongoing discrimination, oppression, and […]

The Fall Family Festival

Hughes United Methodist Church 10700 Georgia Avenue , Wheaton, MD, United States

What better way to kick off fall than a festival?!  IMPACT and Hughes United Methodist Church are co-organizing a festival with the theme “Cultures and Voices of the World.”  The event will feature fun for the whole family includes games and activities for children, raffles, music, and resources and services from Montgomery County.  There will […]

Solidarity Not Charity with Dean Spade | Solidaridad, no caridad con Dean Spade

Online Event

REGISTER HERE Solidarity Not Charity with Dean Spade A webinar on Mutual Aid in Social Justice Movements Tuesday, October 18 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (EDT) Join IMPACT Silver Spring for a virtual event featuring organizer, writer, and Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, Dean Spade. Dean will explain mutual aid (think radical acts of […]

Long Branch Community Clean-Up

Clifton Park Baptist Church 8818 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring, United States

We all have a role to play in keeping our community clean!  Youth and adults, please join us for this Community Clean-Up Day in Long Branch. Gloves and reusable water bottle will be provided. Registration Form (registration is encouraged but not required) https://forms.gle/YwWWGVfccjzq7oiB6

Wheaton Holiday Market

Marian Fryer Town Plaza 2424 Reedie Drive, Wheaton, MD, United States

Don't miss the Wheaton Holiday Market--happening 12/3, 12/10, 12/17 from 12 pm - 5 pm. The Holiday Market in Wheaton features micro-entrepreneurs from the IMPACT network selling cultural foods and artisan gifts (there will also be county resources and service providers). Don't miss the opportunity to kick-off the holidays with an array of unique goodies […]

IMPACT Online Film & Discussion: “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”

Online Event

Prepare to be inspired during IMPACT’s December online film and discussion event! As we are nearing the winter solstice, often held as a time for rest and reflection, we’re gathering to watch and talk about the documentary “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.” This award-winning film was 12 years in the making and […]

Glenmont Forest Community Garden Kick-off Meeting

Online Event

We are excited to announce the Community Gardens project kickoff at the Glenmont Forest Neighborhood Park, next to Fire Station #18 on Georgia Ave & Randolph Road. We will begin planting this Spring! Our first virtual meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 15th at 7:00 pm to introduce the next steps and begin this community-centered initiative. […]

IMPACT Film & Discussion: “Afrofuturism: The Origin Story”

Online Event

This program year, IMPACT is using a lens we call “Care and Counternarratives” to create more possibilities and approaches to racial equity, justice, and liberation. In our film and discussion spaces, we have grounded ourselves in contemporary and historical examples of radical imagination–the ability to imagine life, and social institutions not as they are but […]

Spring Festival in Wheaton

Hughes United Methodist Church 10700 Georgia Avenue , Wheaton, MD, United States

IMPACT's Wheaton Network is partnering with Hughes United Methodist Church to host a day of food, family, fun, and connection for residents. Want to know more?  Please contact Carmen Hernandez at carmen@impactsilverspring.org.