Making a Difference

Meet Our Supporters and Partners

RICH would like to thank the following foundations which have supported us through the years:

• Luther I. Replogle Foundation
• Commonweal Foundation
• Herb Block Foundation
• Capitol Hill Community Foundation
• Gannett Foundation
• John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
• Hattie M. Strong Foundation
• Dimick Foundation
• The Share Fund

Partners

RICH would like to thank the following people and organizations for their in-kind services or donations of supplies.

• The César Chávez Public Charter School for Public Policy, founded in 1999 by Irasema Salcido, has partnered with RICH since 2003. RICH has helped over 750 Chavez students improve their grades or test scores.
• The Academies of Anacostia, a District of Columbia Public School, has been a RICH partner since 2010. In 2010-11 at Anacostia, RICH targeted low readers, truant students and the most proficient math students.
• Capital Preservation Development Corporation, for allowing RICH to use the community space at the Oxford Manor Apartments for RICH’s after school programming.
• First Time Computers, which partnered with RICH to provide 10 desktop computers to Anacostia High School at a steep discount in the fall of 2010.
• Working in the Spirit of Excellence (WISE) and Helping Inner City Kids Succeed, which have partnered with RICH on the Attendance Task Force, visiting and mentoring truant students.
• Gruen and Wichansky, PC, for their financial advice and guidance.
• The Latin-American Youth Center, which has collaborated with RICH since 2009 regarding the DREAM TEAM and advocacy for immigrant youth in Washington, D.C.
• www.Mathleague.com and www.Siam.org, for their generous supply of math contests and competitions.
• Pumpernickel’s for the Saturday bagels
• Fair Chance, for their never-ending advice, guidance and support.
• Year Up, an intensive one-year program for young adults 18-24, providing technical and professional training, college credits, an educational stipend and access to corporate and/or federal internships.
• Jolie Lee, for the use of her photographs throughout this website. Visit her blog.
• Min Kim, Jon Mormino and Betsy Wolf at the Sidwell Friends School for their sponsorship each year of RICH’s Summer Sidwell Scholar.
• Steve O’Keefe and the Edmund Burke School for their generous donations of calculators.
• Beth Cole and the math department at the St. Patrick’s School.
• The One Sight Foundation for their free eye exams and glasses for our needy students.

Board of Directors

• Karen Guberman, Chair, Director, Educational Pathways
• Maryann Gosnell, Vice Chair, Webmaster and former publications manager, Bullis School
• William Gruen, Treasurer, Certified public accountant, Gruen and Wichansky
• Pamela Korbel, Reading instructor, RICH
• Paul Penniman, Executive director, RICH
• Wes Pickard, Former CFO, Synergy, Inc.
• Alex Sepulveda, Private attorney
• Irving Washington, Program manager, National Association of Black Journalists

Advisory Board

• Afsaneh Beschloss, President and CEO, the Rock Creek Group
• Michael Beschloss, Historian and author
• Jacqueline Canales, César Chávez (and RICH) class of 2006
• Robert Fleishman, Partner, Steptoe and Johnson
• Jean Mooskin, Co-founder, and former co-director, Edmund Burke School
• Tanisha Smith, Special education instructor, Anacostia High School
• Barbara Taylor, Tutor

Major Donors

• Dan Schuchat and Lori Lubich
• Carolyn and Jeffrey Leonard
• Michael and Afsaneh Beschloss
• Wes Pickard and Jeannette Studley
• Maryann and Barry Gosnell
• Bill Gruen and Margaret McDonald
• Nancy Crisman
• Peter Jaszi and Sheryl Gilbert
• Tom and Bevra Krattenmaker
• Karen Guberman and Craig Kennedy
• Neal and Ava Gross
• Rebecca and Douglas Spaly
• Camilo Schmidt