By Lanita Whitehurst
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Community-based cooking classes can be a great way to bring people together through food while also potentially boosting their economic power. By teaching new skills and building networks of support, […]
Written by Eric Moreno Shutting down voting locations in poor Black neighborhoods. Underservicing polls in Blue counties. Illegally purging thousands of voters from the state archives. These are just a few of the ways […]
Frankie Blackburn shares how she's taken the network-building skills she honed in Silver Spring and applied them to grassroots organizing in rural North Carolina. In 1999, Frankie Blackburn, along with a […]
On Saturday, April 23 residents gathered on the green space at Westchester West Apartments for IMPACT’s first Neighbor Exchange since the start of the pandemic. The event was organized by members of […]
It’s a sunny evening in early April and the soccer season has just kicked off for youth in the IMPACT Sports Program. Players on the U15 – U16 teams (meaning “under” […]
Here’s a sneak peek at the nature classroom IMPACT is helping develop at JoAnn Leleck Elementary School in the Broad Acres neighborhood of Silver Spring. Kyree Clark, IMPACT’s Community Garden […]
written by Rudy Logan As a Network Builder at IMPACT Silver Spring, in collaboration with Young People for Progress it’s been my pleasure to facilitate bi-weekly, online discussions for a group […]
written by Soha Mustafa, IMPACT Intern On February 26, we celebrated the 20 graduates from the Sewing Academy's winter session, as these hardworking students showed off their fabulous work on the runway. […]
At IMPACT, we know that Black history is American history and that the two cannot be separated. With that full knowledge, during this month dedicated to the discovery and remembrance of history for, by, and about Black Americans, we humbly invite you to join us for a journey we’re calling “History, Identity, Rootedness.”
The Weaver Learning Lab (WLL) brings together a range of community members who care deeply about equity, justice and liberation to focus on the deep inner transformational work necessary for outwards action and change. At the beginning of this year, the WLL facilitation team was preparing for a third cohort to go through another eight-month, in-person learning experience, but as we all know, Covid-19 changed our world and plans.
By Yesenia Regalado
