Reminder: Positive Nature Inc. is hosting a rally in front of its building, located at 1017 New Jersey Avenue SE. The rally is tomorrow and will begin at noon. It is part of the non-profit's efforts to bring awareness to their efforts to pay off their huge property tax bill. Positive Nature had the bad [...]

More on Positive Nature's fight for its building: Yesterday Fox-5 visited the non-profit on New Jersey Avenue SE and filed a story. This follows our reports and follow-ups.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Nats stadium's impact on the surrounding neighborhood. No one feels the sting of all that stadium-related development more than the non-profit Positive Nature. The higher property taxes may put them out of business.
It is hard to estimate the impact of a place like Positive Nature. They run [...]

While writing my story this week on the influence of Nationals Park on the surrounding neighborhood, I focused a lot of time on a non-profit called Positive Nature. The non-profit runs an after-school program that includes tutoring, sports, art and movement therapy, and a lot of one-on-one stuff for at-risk kids. I spent several days [...]

In its heyday, many prominent people supported the Eastern Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. “It was a central charity of the NBA All-Star Game,” Capitol Hill resident Jim Myers says. “Clinton painted a wall there.”
Last month, however, far less credible advocates lobbied on behalf of the Capitol Hill club. [...]

Thanks go out to the good people over at Local First D.C. for inviting City Desk out to their first-anniversary party. At Busboys & Poets there was chicken-on-a-stick, falafel, fruit, pitas, hummus, but more importantly, there were stickers!
No, no. More importantly, there were owners of a bunch of D.C. businesses and staffers with the LEDC [...]

The list of Most Endangered Places in D.C. announced yesterday by the D.C. Preservation League includes some interesting choices. You've got your graffitied frescoes in the old Franklin School at 13th and K Streets NW (now a homeless shelter). You've got your Takoma Theater in Takoma Park, built in 1923, which should be preserved because, [...]

Want to have dinner with the queen? Wait. Let me rephrase that: Would you like to have dinner with queens?
What's been described as a "band of roving drag queens" will travel in fabulous style—aboard the Queen Force One van—as they work the local restaurant scene tonight to help raise money for folks who live with [...]

This week’s Education Issue digs at a few of the many frustrations with DCPS: charter schools wrapped in red tape, the revolving-door politics surrounding superintendents and mayoral takeovers, teachers who should be fired and can’t be.
Check out these stories and tell us what you think. Here’s another thought: Consider doing more than grousing.
Saturday, April 28, [...]

Bikes for the World has a problem: Its bikes are too nice. The nonprofit's mission is to collect donated bikes here and ship them over to Africa. It's already sent more than 7,000 this year, says director Keith Oberg. The organization prefers to send mountain bikes, he says, considering that many roads in Africa make [...]

Regulars at the YWCA Gallery Place Fitness and Aquatics Center may soon be pulled out of the water. Due to a budget shortfall, the YWCA is threatening to close the pool for good.
“The pool costs $200,000 per year…the board can't make ends meet,” says Orysia Stanchak, executive director of the National Capital Area YWCA. Stanchak [...]

For two years now, the D.C. Library Renaissance Project, founded in 2002 by Ralph Nader, has been trying to get the D.C. Public Library (DCPL) to host adult-literacy classes in branch-library meeting rooms, only to be foiled on the basis of “Rule 7.” The rule, which comes from a list of DCPL meeting-room regulations, states [...]