Posts about About GGWash
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We did it (thanks to you)!
Our first-ever reader drive is over, and we did it! Thanks to so many of you who contributed, we passed our goal for this reader drive and helped Greater Greater Washington on its road to sustainability. We brought in $3,684 since the start of our matching challenge, which helped us get the entire $3,000 match and even go beyond. We’ve taken in over $15,000 for this reader drive. Besides… Keep reading…
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We’re so close! Help put us over the top
As this week comes to a close, so does our reader drive, and you have really come through. We’ve almost maxed out our $3,000 matching challenge grant. Can you help us get the very last bit of the way there? Keep reading…
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Many of you really stepped up. Let’s keep it going!
Since we started our $3,000 matching challenge yesterday, our readers have really come through and chipped in $1,356. That’s 42% of the $3,000 matching target in one day! Can we close out this week with the rest? Keep reading…
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We’re almost there! Can you help?
Thanks to many of you, our beloved readers, we’ve raised $9,120.63 so far in our first-ever reader drive. There’s just one more week; can you help us close it out on a high note as you double your impact this week? Keep reading…
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What Greater Greater Washington means to me
I jumped into the DC hyperlocal blogging scene back in 2005, when I moved to the Woodridge neighborhood in Northeast. I came across Greater Greater Washington in early 2008, when David posted about development in Brookland, and later in the year, I met him in person. Because I’d since moved to Shaw, and had applied to graduate school for community planning, I was interested… Keep reading…
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What Greater Greater Washington means to me
Almost 6 years ago today, I stumbled across a new urbanism blog, and my immediate reaction was, “why couldn’t I have thought of a creative name like that?” But more importantly, I was amazed at how great the content was, and how much of it the single author turned out. I subscribed right away. From the start, Greater Greater Washington was a great introduction… Keep reading…
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What GGW means to me: Mainstreamed urbanism
Greater Greater Washington wasn’t the first blog about urbanism or local policy-making in Washington, DC, but it’s the one that changed the discussion. It’s the one that brought arcane subjects like zoning and transit planning into the city’s mainstream. By the time I first discovered Greater Greater Washington, I’d already been writing… Keep reading…
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Happy birthday to us
Greater Greater Education was born a year ago today, with the mission of providing a forum to explore ways to improve education in DC. Keep reading…
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Why Greater Greater Washington is important to me
There’s no shortage of blogs in the DC area that talk about specific neighborhoods. In fact, for 8 years, I’ve written one myself. But Greater Greater Washington tells a unique story about our region as a whole. I don’t remember when I started reading GGW, but I was struck by the slogan “the Washington, DC area is great. But it could be greater.”… Keep reading…
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Why Greater Greater Washington is important to me
Greater Greater Washington is holding a reader drive to fund our Associate Editor, who makes sure we get high-quality posts up every day. Some members of the Greater Greater Washington family have written accounts of why this community is important to them and to the region. Please support us today! I don’t recall the first Greater Greater Washington article that I read,… Keep reading…