Project Community Connect

Project Community Connect will take place in October, 2020. The mission of Project Community Connect is to build community, shift mindsets around homelessness through personal experience and connection, and provide critical resources, including shelter, clothing, and living assistance, to individuals at risk of or experiencing homelessness in Washington, DC and surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia.

Project Community Connect puts essential services under one roof at the area’s largest resource fair for those experiencing homelessness. By eliminating barriers that keep them from breaking free of the cycle of homelessness, they’re winning.

United Way NCA brings together local providers to deliver medical services, housing assessments, employment services and much more to over 2,000 participants to date.

We match each participant with a volunteer “buddy” who remains with and helps the individual during the event. To date, we engaged more than 1,800 volunteers in our work. In one day, participants gain access to services that might otherwise take months.

Volunteer – Sign up to become a United Way NCA volunteer.

Donate – Make a monetary donation in support of Project Community Connect. We also welcome in-kind donations for the event! If you would like to donate certain items (See FAQs below), please contact phc@uwnca.org

When Tamra Holmes came to Project Community Connect in 2018, she desperately needed assistance breaking her lease and reducing the increasing charges from her landlord. Within the year of receiving assistance, Holmes found a new apartment and now returned to Project Community Connect in 2019 as a volunteer.

“Nobody in a homeless situation should be looked down upon, or judged, or made to feel bad.” shares Holmes.

“It’s my staff’s favorite day of the year…it’s a very well run event that is very helpful to the people that they serve.” -Dr. Howard Osterman

• Central Union Mission
• Cooperative Agreements to Benefit Homeless Individuals
• Friendship Place
• DC Department of Employment Services
• DC Department of Human Services
• DC Public Library
• People for Fairness Coalition
• The Salvation Army
• So Others Might Eat (SOME)
• United States Veterans Initiative

2019 Project Community Connect was made possible with the generous support of our sponsors. If your organization is interested in supporting Project Community Connect, please contact United Way NCA Corporate Engagement Team at: CSR@uwnca.org.