The urbanist thermometer gets higher. Original photo by ekelly80.

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?

Readers contributed $250, $100, $20, $5 a month, and even just $5. Our matching grant givers will double anything we get this week up to $3,000 total, so we’ve actually raised $2,712 in the last day.

All of it makes a big difference in helping us pay Shawn, keep Greater Greater Washington’s quality high, and invest in reaching out to more communities and on more issues that affect the shape of our neighborhoods and quality of life all across our region.

I’ve updated our little “townhouse thermometer” on the right. Can you give $20, $100, $250 or whatever you can so we can max out our challenge, get that townhouse photo up to its zoning and historic maximum height, and close out this last week of our reader drive on a high note, even getting all the way to $15,000 in total? Thanks for all your support!

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.