Resilience Fund

In response to the ongoing DC budget crisis, which has resulted in an overnight $1.1 billion cut to DC's budget, CARE DC is taking swift action. This crisis has put our schools in a spending freeze, which has resulted in stretching and pulling every dollar to ensure the end-of-the-year activities proceed smoothly. Our schools shouldn't have to struggle to end the year well, nor should our children.

This freeze limits: 

🎉 Award ceremonies showcase students' voices, cultures, and achievements, affirming their dignity and leaving them feeling seen.

🌟 Access to summer learning tools, such as journals, art supplies, books, or project-based challenges that can be explored over the summer, especially those tied to real-life experiences (like storytelling, gardening, or community research), which maintains learning and continuity for the next school year.

🚌 Field trips and field days boost student and educator morale because they offer joyful, meaningful breaks from routine that reconnect everyone to the deeper purpose of learning and community

💡Disinvestment deepens inequity and despair.
Most underfunded schools serve Black, Latine, and low-income youth, perpetuating cycles of trauma and marginalization. Schools are systems meant to protect our kids, not abandon them. Let's work together to celebrate them so they can end the year on a high note. 

🤝Strong schools build strong communities.
Schools are often hubs for families, social services, and neighborhood connections. When schools thrive, they foster pride, hope, and cohesion—key ingredients in reducing safety concerns and nurturing community resilience.

📣 It’s not just a school issue—it’s a justice issue.
Youth safety concerns are not simply about individual choices; it’s about systems that fail to meet basic needs. Investing in schools is one of the most direct ways to interrupt alternative behaviors and advance racial and economic justice.

EXAMPLES OF IMPACT                                                                                                                                                   

• $5 = A box of crayons                                                                                                                                                
• $50 = Student achievement certificates                                                                                                                            
• $250 = Awards for ceremonial programming                                                                                                                      
• $750 = An engaging field trip                                                                                                                                      
• $850 = Field Day                                                                                                                                                            
• $2,000 = Book giveaways and summer learning activities packets

Thank you so much for your generous consideration! Your support is an act of justice, peace, and prosperity for our youth! We are the changemakers. The community makes it happen for them. 

Hands in!

1...2...3...CARE!