Friday, April 19, 2013
C. Marie Henderson will become director of Community Foundation of Montgomery County
After serving Interfaith Works for two years, Executive Director C. Marie Henderson is leaving to serve director of the Community Foundation of Montgomery County. Her resignation takes effect May 22. Priscilla Fox-Morrill, director of Homeless Services, will serve interim executive director. Based in Rockville, Interfaith Works is a non-sectarian, nonprofit organization supported by more than 7,000 volunteers, businesses, civic groups, and more than 140 local congregations. In announcing Henderson’s resignation, Board Chairwoman Mary Ann Sestili said: “While Marie’s departure is a loss for IW, we feel that she is ideally suited for her new position. Our local nonprofits will now benefit from Marie’s guidance and expertise. Having an …
Monday, March 18, 2013
Rockville-based nonprofit is hosting event Wednesday in Rockville to draw attention to the state of poverty, homelessness in Montgomery County
On Wednesday, Interfaith Works is inviting neighbors to “Stand Together” against homelessness. The Rockville-based nonprofit is hosting the Neighbors Stand Together Tour at the Wilkins Avenue Women's Shelter. The event is intended to inform people about the state of poverty in Montgomery County and what is being done to fight homelessness, according to Interfaith Works. The hourlong event starts at 5 p.m. To RSVP, please contact Rachael Long, development coordinator: rlong@iworksmc.org or 301-315-1096. Two more “Stand Together” events are scheduled in April, according to Interfaith Works. In the meantime, here’s a snapshot of homelessness and poverty in the U.S. and in Montgomery County: 407,966 The number of people nationwide living in …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Nonprofit's gala to include celebrity servers, commemorative soup bowl and a play.
Interfaith Works will celebrate 40 years of serving the community next month with a “Fables & Tables” anniversary gala that will raise money for the Rockville-based nonprofit while reminding attendees of the needy in Montgomery County. The gala will be held Oct. 11 at the Washington Hebrew Congregation’s Julia Bindeman Suburban Center, in Potomac. The low-key gathering “will be unique, family-oriented and promote community engagement,” according to a description on the event’s website. The “empty bowl”-style dinner will feature VIPs serving soups donated by local restaurants. Each attendee will receive a commemorative decorative bowl by a local artisan “to memorialize the many empty bowls that are in our community every night,” …
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Community Ministries and Interfaith Works received boxes filled with personal items for clients.
Community Ministries of Rockville and Interfaith Works, also of Rockville, were two of three Montgomery County nonprofits to receive 280 boxes of supplies on Thursday to distribute to clients. The boxes were among more than 2,000 filled with personal and emergency preparedness as part of the United Way of the National Capital Area’s inaugural Shoebox Project. “There are so many people in need within Montgomery County," Nina Golding, director of development for Interfaith Works, said in a news release. "It is so important that there are organizations like the United Way that reach out and support those in need. Like the United Way, Interfaith Works is about neighbors helping neighbors and this is exactly what the Shoebox Project is about.” …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Interfaith Works campaign allows residents to give back by dining out.
Montgomery County residents can dine out for a good cause on Feb. 28 as a part of Thanksgiving in February. Not only will patrons support local restaurants, but a portion of their check will help feed the hungry. The 20-year-old event will help 11 Montgomery County agencies provide emergency food to those in need through Rockville-based nonprofit Interfaith Works. Restaurants in Rockville, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Wheaton and other towns around Montgomery County will donate up to 20 percent of their patrons' checks to the charity. The following Rockville restaurants are participating: Check out the event's website for a full list of participating restaurants. If dinner out is an impossible task, …
Thursday, October 27, 2011
An art program creates a home for the homeless and others in need.
The cafe in a building on Johns Hopkins Montgomery County campus is the unlikely host to an exhibit of art that has been life-altering for the artists—homeless and other clients of Interfaith Works—and may just be to visitors, too. “In the chaos of this world and all the things we have to work on, we need to take time to stop and enjoy beautiful things," Marie Henderson, executive director for Interfaith Works, said at a reception for the exhibit on Oct. 18. This was the first art exhibit for the Rockville-based coalition of 165 congregations, which serves 35,000 people from around the county who, as Henderson said, "need a hand up." The exhibit features work by students in a weekly art class at Interfaith's Community Vision center in …
Friday, July 8, 2011
Rockville-based Interfaith Works is accepting school supplies for disadvantaged children.
Heading back to school may seem like a far-off concept for county children enjoying summer break. But a Rockville-based nonprofit is using the summer to prepare to send disadvantaged students back to class with the tools they need. Before the first bells of the school year ring, Interfaith Works will donate backpacks filled with school supplies to students from low-income families. Interfaith's 10th annual school supplies campaign, sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Federal Credit Union, collects supplies through late August, using donations to fill each backpack with 22 different items. “We do everything from kindergarten to 12th grade," said Julie Kirby, director of development and community outreach for Interfaith Works. "Every kid in the …
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Providers pondered ethics and challenges and honored their own at an Interfaith Works gathering.
Caregivers from around Montgomery County took time out on Wednesday to ponder the everyday challenges they encounter while providing emergency assistance to clients and to honor their own during the 15th Interfaith Works Caregivers Gathering at Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Rockville. About 100 caregivers attended this year's gathering, which focused on the theme of "Compassionate Caregiving in Times Like These." A panel discussion focusing on "Ethical Issues in Emergency Assistance" included a presentation by the Rev. Dr. Steven Willsey, a crisis care coordinator with Adventist Community Services. Willsey's presentation, "Mission: Serving or Evangelizing?" discussed the fine line that faith-based social service providers walk between …
Thursday, November 25, 2010
St. Patrick's and Edison students bring communities together to serve those in need
The line stretched out the door of the parish hall at St. Patrick's Catholic Church on Norbeck Road late Tuesday afternoon. It was a sign of the season and a sign of the times. This week the county's Holiday Giving Project distributed thousands of Thanksgiving food baskets to low-income residents around the county. This year, with the lingering effects of the Great Recession hanging over the holidays once again, there are even more mouths to feed. The Holiday Giving Project helped 9,000 families last year, said the Rev. Rosetta Robinson, the director of congregation and community emergency support for Interfaith Works, a nonprofit contracted by the county to coordinate the program. This year the network of about 20 churches and nonprofits …
Lauren Moskowitz
11:47 am on Friday, July 8, 2011
Why isn't PREK included?? In Montgomery County, you have to be AT the poverty line or Below... these are children who definitely need it!!!!!! more ›