Image by D. Taylor Reich.

At the end of October, we wrapped up our fall membership drive with an outpouring of support from readers to honor our departing founder David Alpert’s contributions to Greater Greater Washington. Together you all, our volunteers, readers, and past and former board members, helped us to raise $24,806.66 to honor David’s legacy and support the work of the publication!

Thank you so much to everyone who donated during this campaign and to all of our sustaining donors. We couldn’t do this work without you. If you missed the end of the campaign, but would still like to donate, you can do so here.

Like many of you, we are breathing a little easier here this week at Greater Greater Washington, especially knowing that transit has a fighting chance for the federal stimulus funding it deeply needs. But real change takes place on the local level, and we must keep those opportunities squarely in our sights.

Here in the Washington region, the 2020 elections brought us a new mayor in Baltimore, two new council seats for the Montgomery County Council, a new commission to address gerrymandering in Virginia, and several new members of the DC council. All of these elections have interesting implications for regional urbanism and we’ll be talking more about that in the publication in the coming months.

On a hyperlocal level, our community won big here in DC. For the third time, our Elections Committee made endorsements in DC’s Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner races. We received 200 responses from candidates, made endorsements or recommendations in 108 races and saw 68% of our endorsed candidates win their elections city-wide.

This is a big part of how we build power for better urbanism here in the DC region, and we are so excited to continue to work with you and your elected community leaders in the coming years to demonstrate support for urbanist policies that truly make our communities greater.

Thank you so much for your generosity, we couldn’t do this work without you.

Continue the conversation about urbanism in the Washington region and support GGWash’s news and advocacy when you join the GGWash Neighborhood!

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Kate Jentoft-Herr is GGWash's Engagement Manager. Previously the Development Manager at the Coalition for Smarter Growth, Kate is interested in exploring the relationships between land-use, racism, and the Climate Crisis and in making discussion of urban issues accessible to folks from all backgrounds. She loves DC and being able to walk to work.