Featuring: My Sister’s Place RISE Trust Guaranteed Income Pilot
Dear Mychelle,
Join us for our first event of the year next Thursday, January 16th at 5pm via Zoom for an information and training session! All are welcome to join our gathering, including community members who wish to deepen their involvement in our advocacy agenda and organizing efforts.
At our January meeting, expect a packed agenda. It will include:
- Remarks about the power of regular and unconditional cash payments from My Sister’s Place Executive Director Mercedes Lemp;
- A preview of the 2025 agenda of the DC Guaranteed Income Coalition; and
- A mini information and orientation session for prospective volunteers.
Featured pilot: My Sister’s Place RISE Trust Guaranteed Income Pilot
The January meeting will spotlight the pioneering guaranteed income work of My Sister’s Place (MSP). Executive Director Mercedes Lemp will discuss MSP’s RISE Trust guaranteed income pilot, which is a program focused on domestic violence survivors. Read more here.
Community Conversations Volunteers and Venues Sought
Those eager to get involved with the DC guaranteed income movement can learn more about our new “Community Conversations” project at our monthly meetings. Designed to be interactive, the gatherings center people with lived experience and introduce their expertise in neighborhood spaces where these stories are typically absent.
An effort to educate and enlist support from diverse communities across Washington, DC, our Community Conversations series launched in December 2024. The program creates new spaces for discussions about the devastating harms of poverty and the proven power of guaranteed income.
Join our team! Help us coordinate a Community Conversation in your neighborhood, become a conversation facilitator, or collect signatures at our events. Volunteer orientation for all roles is available at our Coalition monthly meetings. Contact us at events@dcgicoalition.org to sign up or to arrange a Conversation in your community.
Related Events
American Bar Association Webinar | January 22 , 2025
Also, mark your calendars for Wednesday, January 22 at 3pm via Zoom for a panel presentation moderated by Mothers Outreach Network Executive Director Melody Webb, Esq.. This webinar is an offering in the new American Bar Association webinar series, A Way Forward. Family defenders are often looking for strategies outside of the courtroom to preserve families. The panel will feature parents from Mother’s Outreach Network’s Mother Up guaranteed income pilot programs.
How do we change the narrative that mothers involved in this system are neglectful or unable to parent their children safely? Panelists will discuss how guaranteed income, cash, and concrete supports directly lift up marginalized families and take on the false narrative or belief that parents surveilled by the system are dangerous to their children. Register here: bit.ly/ABAMotherUp.
BIG Conference, Washington DC | June 17-18, 2025
Additionally, save the date for the two-day annual convening of the Basic Income Guarantee Conference in our own hometown of Washington, DC. Join attendees June 17 – 18 to share, learn, and help chart the course for the next steps in the US basic income movement. For more information and details register here.
Finally, this movement needs you. The shifting policy landscape requires your participation in social justice activism now more than ever. Consider our Coalition activities as a channel for your contributions to these efforts. Together, we can safeguard social justice priorities, including the agenda for a permanent guaranteed income for DC residents and workers. Register here: bit.ly/DCGICJanuary2025.
In Solidarity
Melody
Melody Webb
Founder and Executive Director
Mother’s Outreach Network / DC Guaranteed Income Coalition
Finally, to learn more about or to get involved with the DC Guaranteed Income Coalition:
