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Your generosity changes lives. Read our latest annual report to learn how. |
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Read Our 2020 Annual Report |
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Doorways is grateful for every one of you, and the impact you make in our clients' journeys. Your contributions allow Doorways to deliver the services that make the biggest difference in our clients' lives.
Read our 2020 annual report to learn how your investment in Doorways gave harbor, healing, and hope last year.
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Special thanks to Doorways' leaders |
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Doorways sincerely appreciates Caroline Jones, our former President and CEO, and Maureen Devine-Ahl, who has served as our Interim President and CEO since February 2020, for their leadership, advocacy, and dedicated service to our clients and our community this past year. |
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Register for our upcoming Lunch & Learn with new CEO, Diana Ortiz |
We invite you to join us Lunch & Learn on February 18th to meet Diana, hear about her vision for Doorways, and ask your questions about our programs and services in the year ahead. |
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there! |
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Recite Me Language and Accessibility Tool |
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Doorways has added Recite Me, an assistive technology toolbar, to our website. The toolbar allows web visitors to customize Doorways' content, so that you can consume it in ways that work for you. Visit www.doorwaysva.org now to check it out! |
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How to Access the Toolbar |
On desktop, select Language & Accessibility Options at the top of Doorways' website. The toolbar will appear at the top of the site.
On mobile, select Language & Accessibility Options from the bottom of the drop-down menu.
You can select the red X to close it again.
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Select this button in the toolbar to translate our website into multiple languages.
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America's Other Front Line: Nonprofits |
As the Biden administration proposes additional pandemic relief, nonprofit workers see a country facing a growing crisis |
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"The difficult choices they've witnessed individuals and families make — between medicine and food, internet and electricity — are a microcosm of the pandemic's continued and overlapping burdens on people across the country. We surveyed social workers, food pantry employees, legal services providers and other nonprofit staff members about how the pandemic has affected the communities they serve." |
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"The Covid-19 crisis has intensified the struggles our clients — many of whom are poor, Black and brown, and other minorities, women, children and immigrants — face in order to merely survive." |
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What Defines Domestic Abuse? Survivors Say It's More than Assault |
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"Congresswoman Cori Bush and the musician FKA twigs describe how manipulative, isolating conduct known as 'coercive control' helped trap them in abusive relationships." |
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"Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri has been sharing her story as a survivor of domestic abuse to help 'normalize the conversation.'" |
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Domestic Violence via Technology on the Rise during Pandemic |
"The COVID-19 pandemic already led to an increased danger for domestic violence victims, forcing them to remain isolated at home with abusive partners. The pandemic has also further empowered abusers through their use of technology to harm their victims." |
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Have more at home than you need? Swing by our office on Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to drop off items you may have "extra" of at home.
Please contact Joy Myers at [email protected] or (703) 504-9290 for donation drop-off instructions. |
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This week's items:
- Cleaning supplies, especially disinfectant wipes
- Hand soap
- Hand sanitizer
- Kitchen sponges
- Dish soap
Thank you for keeping our shelters stocked with critical supplies!
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Do you need support? Do you know someone else who might? Call Doorways to speak with an advocate now. |
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24-Hour Domestic & Sexual Violence Hotline: |
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