Yachad D.C.

11/18/2024

Where you live matters.
This holiday season, don't buy a turkey for someone else in an act of charity. Instead, help repair a home so that another person can cook their own turkey in their now functioning kitchen. Support Yachad D.C. and support efforts to improve health and build wealth for lower-income DC homeowners.

This year Yachad is participating in Giving Tuesday through our partnership with Spur Local. Whether you give a little or a lot, we invite you to join us in doing good and giving local. Click here to join the effort:

GivingTuesday is a day for people all over the world to do good. On December 3, give back to local communities here in Greater Washington through Give Local Together, the region's official GivingTuesday campaign.

04/08/2024

Read about Yachad's latest work to support DC homeowners. Our homes are our sanctuaries. See how you can help.

  March Developments Friends, Earlier this month, we finished reading in the Book of Exodus about the building of the Mishkan, the portable sanctuary in the desert. The people brought donations of an

03/04/2024

Yachad is about partnerships. We couldn't do our work without these great organizations. Read all about them here:

09/11/2023

Wishing everyone a L'Shana Tova-- A Healthy New Year

  September Developments Friends, One year ago, Mayor Muriel Bowser created the Black Homeownership StrikeForce to address the disproportionately low rates of Black homeownership in the District of

09/11/2023

L'Shana Tova!

  September Developments Friends, One year ago, Mayor Muriel Bowser created the Black Homeownership StrikeForce to address the disproportionately low rates of Black homeownership in the District of

02/02/2023

New year and new opportunities ahead. We look forward to our renewed partnership with the National Fair Housing Alliance.

  February Developments Yachad Receives Major Grant from The National Fair Housing Alliance to Support Inclusive and Equitable Access to Affordable Housing. We are honored to share the news that Yac

01/26/2023

Yachad is proud to be a partner in NFHA's work. The grant from this housing settlement allows Yachad D.C. to undertake activities that support Black and Latino communities by remediating homes and creating new equity for homeowners.

Thank you, for your leadership in helping communities create new wealth and live healthier lives.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  January 26, 2023  Contact: [email protected]   The grants will support organizations across 16 metropolitan areas working to expand inclusive and equitable access to housing  WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) announced th...

12/14/2022

10/27/2022

Check out our October Developments

You don't want to miss this.   October Developments Friends, Many of us have now completed the Jewish holiday season, culminating with the festival of Sukkot when we build temporary outdoor structure

10/20/2022

Yachad is honored to be awarded a Health Equity grant to better serve DC homeowners. Thirty-two nonprofit groups will receive $9.2 million in funding from the Health Equity Fund, which is managed by the Greater Washington Community Foundation. The fund was created last year, after the insurance company CareFirst agreed to pay $95 million to settle a 13-year legal battle between the insurer and the D.C. government.

Grants focus on economic mobility to address racial and income inequities in the District.

05/25/2022

Improving the quality of housing can improve the health of families. Social and structural determinants play a big part in the health of our communities. More so than genetics.

Update as of March 2, 2021: Advocacy Action Alert! Ask your representatives to support t he Improving Social Determinants of Health Act of 2021 . Use our simple tool at the bottom of this blog post to email a letter or share your message on Twitter. Social and economic factors play a big role in hea...

05/18/2022

"Research shows that asthma disparities are highly driven by socio-environmental and economic conditions, and that structural injustices over time have led to accumulated disadvantages for Black populations in the United States."

Yachad's healthy housing work makes a difference for families with asthma.

Over the past 15 years, there have been moderate advances in U.S. public healthcare and research, but racial gaps outcomes have not changed.