Real change happens street by street, heart by heart, one soul, one conscience at a time. It happens because concerned and caring individuals commit to making a difference. Families and children depend on CharityWorks to help change lives, to give them the tools to have a successful life, to care.

Over the past decade, CharityWorks has become a major philanthropic organization in the Washington Metropolitan area and has distributed more than $10,000,000 in high impact grants to:

• purchase 20 plots of land for Habitat for Humanity;
• build a home for a single mother and her daughter;
• send 24 local foster children to college for four years;
• open and expand literacy programs to benefit over 3,600 children per year;
• expand the programs of The Fishing School, and after-school and summer program operating in what 20/20 called the worst street in America;
• finance the construction of a second campus for The Maya Angelou Public Charter School and give 150 high school teens what The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer called “their last chance at success”;
• expand and open after-school and summer programs at 10 elementary schools in some of the most under-resourced areas in DC;
• expand the Higher Achievement Program and give 500 low-income middle school children a change to attend a top high school; and
• create and expand award winning programs for Center City Consortium and give 2,400 at risk elementary and middle school children a chance to receive a first rate education.
• build a Fisher House to provide a home away from home for our military families
• design and build early childhood centers of excellence at Friendship Public Charter School in Washington, D.C.'s least-advantaged neighborhoods so that young learners will have a chance to forge their futures long before the community around them gives up on them.

As we begin our second decade of service to our community, we wish to recognize the support we have received from our members, Advisory Board, and donors, and give special thanks to our partners who are doing the hard work of changing lives --- one family at a time.