The District of Columbia’s nonprofit charitable organizations touch the lives of thousands of D.C. residents every day. In areas such as prenatal support, food security, early childhood, youth engagement into adulthood, workforce development, health care and homeless services, the District government contracts for vital services in every neighborhood of our city. Nonprofits respond with expertise, empathy and loving support 24 hours a day.
The D.C. government, through grants and contracts, purchases services for our city’s residents from the nonprofit sector. But for years, they have underpaid the organizations doing the work for their true costs.
In 2018 and 2019 nonprofit leaders advocated for a change, and through considerable advocacy and the leadership of two key city council members — Brianne Nadeau and Robert White Jr. — the Nonprofit Fair Compensation Act of 2020 was unanimously passed and written into law. This should have been good news for the social services sector.…
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