Friday Round-up: this week in the news

  • We’re excited to announce that the WHF Foundation awarded Calvary and five other DC-metro area non-profits a community partnership grant. http://bit.ly/TO5paq
  • Here’s a neat story about the vibrant, growing arts community in our new neighborhood: http://bit.ly/PciMON
  • “Around 123,000 D.C. residents – one in five – live in poverty” and fewer employers are providing health insurance: http://bit.ly/U9AL8O
  • California is trying to better safeguard the rights of homeless people to reclaim property seized by the police: http://bit.ly/PWnKxZ
  • “Household income fell in 2011 for the fourth straight year.” http://wapo.st/SHRDbt

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