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  • Capital Pride opens up nominations for Heroes and other awards

    By on January 11, 2017

    The Capital Pride Alliance is encouraging community members to nominate friends, family members, colleagues or acquaintances that they believe have made significant or exceptional contributions...

  • Volunteer Spirit

    By on December 2, 2016

    Burgundy Crescent Volunteers may have disbanded, but former members have found ways to continue their work

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    Stonewall Regatta Wants Volunteers

    By on May 23, 2014

    The DC Strokes Rowing Club, the oldest LGBT rowing club in the world, has put out a call for volunteers for its 21st Stonewall Regatta,...

  • Dialing for Democrats

    By on October 31, 2013

    Every Wednesday evening in recent weeks, about 10 people meet at the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) headquarters in downtown D.C. and get straight to work....

  • Volunteer Spirit

    By on January 5, 2011

    When Eric Cohen and Jonathan Blumenthal met while doing volunteer work with a gay and lesbian singles group, it was a special moment that launched...

  • Helping Out

    By on January 5, 2011

    If you know you want to help, but you're not sure exactly where to start, look to The Center, the D.C. area's LGBT community center....

  • Outspoken, Ep. 15: Thanksgiving Edition [video]

    By on November 25, 2010

    To honor the holiday, we present a special Thanksgiving edition of Outspoken. It was filmed on Wednesday, Nov. 24 at Food & Friends as the...

  • More Snow, More Need

    By on February 9, 2010

    While an emergency call for volunteers Tuesday meant that none of the 1,400 ill clients served by Food and Friends went hungry despite the poor...

  • Foul Weather and Food

    By on February 8, 2010

    In order to keep ahead of additional snowfall expected to hit D.C. midweek, Food and Friends has put out an urgent call for delivery volunteers....

  • Gay and Green

    By on June 4, 2008

    In the local GLBT community, volunteering has a color: burgundy. Since its forming in 2001, Burgundy Crescent Volunteers have infused themselves into nearly all aspects...

  • Chef's Best

    By on November 3, 2004

    Graham Beard Graham Beard, Volunteer Graham Beard holds the distinction of being Food & Friends' first volunteer, having responded to a classified ad in 1988....

  • Burgundy Crescent Volunteers

    By on November 19, 2003

    Photograph by Michael Wichita Burgundy Crescent membersvolunteering at Laugh Out Loud Burgundy Crescent Volunteers Mission: Burgundy Crescent has two missions: to provide volunteers for local...