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Providing comprehensive services including food, clothes, healthcare, and legal and social services to DC residents living with low-incomes. #HelpingPeople
Holiday Helpings is back! Our program runs through Nov. 25! Join us in supporting families in need during the holidays. Every contribution, big or small, brings us one step closer to ensuring no family is left without food this holiday season.

👉 Learn more: breadforthecity.org/holidayhelpings
November 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This week, our Staff Attorney Zack Mason joined advocates, health professionals, and community members to demand that DC Council fully fund the DC Healthcare Alliance.

We won’t stop showing up until our city’s budget reflects care, dignity, and justice for all our neighbors.
July 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
@councilofdc.bsky.social voted to protect our and over 30 other local organizations’ ATJ funding to provide free legal services to people who can’t afford their own! This isn’t just a line item — it’s a $31.1 million promise. To ensure equity in a city where justice is too often out of reach.
July 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Progressive advocates are outside the Wilson Building this morning ahead of a first budget vote in the D.C. Council. They are pushing for tax increases to help spare cuts to programs like the Healthcare Alliance, which insures tens of thousands of residents, many immigrants.
July 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Our government can afford to care for its people. Poverty is not a personal failure; it is a policy failure. We believe in a future where resources are shared fairly, healthcare is a human right, and no one goes hungry.
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Bread for the City Responds to Devastating Federal Cuts - Bread for the City
What the spending bill means for our community and how DC can chip in to ensure everyone is fed and cared for in our city.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Not feeling particularly patriotic? We've got a roundup of ways to engage in local community efforts, forums, and fundraisers this weekend. 51st.news/july-fourth-...
Alt Fourth of July Activities: Your weekly Civics Roundup
Plus, picketing continues at Le Dip, OAG community calls, and more.
51st.news
July 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Cutting DC's Healthcare Alliance program would result in people losing access to basic, life-saving care. Tell @councilofdc.bsky.social to reject @mayorbowser.bsky.social's proposed changes to the Alliance program: actionnetwork.org/letters/inve...
Invest in the DC Healthcare Alliance
The budget before the DC Council right now would dismantle the DC Healthcare Alliance, which provides critical health care coverage to residents with low incomes who do not qualify for Medicaid, most ...
actionnetwork.org
June 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Morning, DC! Today, Mayor Bowser is releasing her budget for the #FY26 fiscal year & her revised #FY25 budget. These delayed budgets will incorporate hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts from essential programs, & millions in spending for a new stadium in DC. #DCBudget
May 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Concerned about an $850 million dollar giveaway to a billionaire team owner, as the mayor makes cuts to vital safety net programs?

Learn more about why a stadium is a lousy deal for DC at a forum on 4/29, 6-8 pm. Register at bit.ly/RFKforum

#NoBillionairesPlayground
April 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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DC government is united: the Senate got us halfway and the House must finish the job of giving back DC’s authority to spend its *own local funds*. A mid-year cut of $1b would be disastrous – to public safety, education and more. We will keep pressing the House, and you can, too!
March 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We'll be at the Wilson Building tomorrow at 10 AM to tell the DC Council that the attacks on TOPA and tenants' rights in Mayor Bowser's RENTAL Act are unacceptable!

Join us: actionnetwork.org/events/rally...
March 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Mayor, Councilmembers, EHN Comment on “Senate Passage of Bill to Allow D.C. to Spend Its Fiscal Year 2025 Local Funds”, House comes back after March 24 - Stay tuned www.popville.com/2025/03/dc-b...
Mayor, Councilmembers, EHN Comment on “Senate Passage of Bill to Allow D.C. to Spend Its Fiscal Year 2025 Local Funds”, House comes back after March 24 - PoPville
photo by Rich Renomeron From Mayor Muriel Bowser: “We thank Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins as well as Vice Chair Patty Murray, Senator Angela Alsobrooks, Senator Tim Kaine, Senator Chris Va...
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March 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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22 Senators have told us they are either undecided on cloture or planning to vote yes.

We want them to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE.

Call Senators today and make it clear you want them to stop this power grab over DC: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Hundreds of D.C. residents, including parents, teachers, and union members are lobbying Senate offices today against the spending bill that would slash more than $1 billion from D.C.’s local budget.
March 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Take action to protect DC tenant rights on Tuesday at the Wilson Building! Join us in telling DC Council to REJECT the RENTAL Act. This bill would disempower tenants who are already economically at-risk and gut displacement protections. actionnetwork.org/events/rally...
Rally to Save TOPA
Mayor Muriel Bowser has introduced the RENTAL Act. This bill would disempower tenants who are already economically at-risk and gut protections that have been vital in preventing the abrupt displacemen...
actionnetwork.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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We can stop this power grab over DC's local budget. We are worth fighting for.
 
Whether you're a DC resident or acting in solidarity with the people of DC, we have everything you need to tell the Senate VOTE NO on cloture and VOTE NO on the CR: bit.ly/dcs-budget

🎥: @survive.show
March 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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We just made visits to Senate offices to urge Senators to vote NO on the House CR! DC residents should determine their budget!! #FreeDC
March 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Our call script is updated to reflect today's context. CALL SENATORS TODAY and tell them NO ON CLOTURE: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This week the Senate will vote on the Continuing Resolution which would revoke DC's ability to set our own budget. This would be devastating for our communities, and we need the Senate to VOTE NO.

Use our toolkit to call Senators today and every day until the vote: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
March 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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TODAY: Meet us on Capitol Hill to visit House Reps and tell them to vote NO on this CR attempting to control DC’s local budget.

DC’s money belongs to DC.
March 11, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Feeling helpless? Act locally to make a real impact! Join us in delivering @fairbudgetdc.bsky.social's 2026 budget recommendations (dropping soon) to @councilofdc.bsky.social on March 11. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/join-...
Join the Fair Budget Coalition Walkaround
Join us Tuesday, March 11th - 8:45-12:15 to deliver our FY26 "Choose Us!" Budget Platform to DC Councilmembers. We will be taking our big Coalition energy to each Council office, visit with council m...
actionnetwork.org
February 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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We need @MayorBowser @ChmnMendelson to #ChooseDC for the #DCBudget. That means standing up for affordable housing, schools, jobs, health care, workers, our elders, our culture & community—everything that keeps DC strong. @FairBudgetDC FY26 platform: bit.ly/ChooseDCPlatform
FY26 Budget Platform - Fair Budget Coalition
FY26 Budget Platform A Budget for Our People, By Our People FBC produces Budget Platforms and other accountability and advocacy...
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March 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@mayorbowser.bsky.social @chmnmendelson.bsky.social, DC faces federal funding cuts & political attacks on our autonomy. We need you to protect our stability & wellbeing. It’s time to #ChooseDC for the #DCBudget. @fairbudgetdc.bsky.social FY26 platform: bit.ly/ChooseDCPlatform
FY26 Budget Platform - Fair Budget Coalition
FY26 Budget Platform A Budget for Our People, By Our People FBC produces Budget Platforms and other accountability and advocacy...
bit.ly
March 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Our incredible client turned community ACTIVIST Latisha Boyd joins a #NACoLeg panel to discuss the impacts of our guaranteed income program.
It's day 2 of #NACoLeg, and CGI is teaming up with the National Organization of Black County Officials (NOBCO) to host a discussion on guaranteed income with our founder, Michael D. Tubbs, @willjawando.bsky.social, Commissioner Angela Conley, and @breadforthecity.bsky.social recipient Latisha Boyd.
March 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Grocery prices: 📈
SNAP (food stamp) benefits: 📉

More people than ever are turning to us for food support, and SNAP cuts will only make things worse.

See how our food pantry—the largest in DC—is stepping up to meet the need in this @fox5dc feature:
fox5sandiego.com/video/republ...
Republicans target SNAP in federal spending cuts, food banks brace for impact
As House Republicans push to cut billions from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, food banks are bracing for potential impacts.
fox5sandiego.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM