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Founded in February, 2001,

BCV now has over 2,100 members

and we have provided

over 36,000 volunteer hours

to the community:

 

Washington, DC

Maryland

Virginia

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This is a list of organizations and events for whom we have provided volunteers:

bulletAcademy of Hope's Annual Spelling Bee
bulletActors' Theater of Washington
bulletAdams Morgan Day Festival
bulletAIDS Action (reading the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt)
bulletAIDS Action National Leadership Awards
bulletAIDS Walk Washington
bulletAmerican Cancer Society
bulletAmerican Red Cross Youth Task Force (support for terrorist disaster relief workers in NY, DC, and PA after September 11, 2001)
bulletArlington Food Assistance Center (Postal Carriers’ Food Drive)
bulletAvalon Theatre Project
bulletBCV Holiday Party and Children's Gift Drive
bulletBCV Social and Book Drive for One In Ten’s Children & the Arts.
bulletBCV Social and Thanksgiving Food Drive for Food & Friends
bulletBCV Social Events:  Anniversary Celebrations at Mimi's American Bistro; Bowling at Strike Bethesda; Picnic at Fletcher's Boat House on the Potomac River
bulletBCV Thanksgiving Clear OUT Your Closets for the Homeless & Thanksgiving Dinner in Adams Morgan
bulletBlack Pride (staffing several information booths, including the BCV Booth)
bulletBooks Plus (non-profit bookstore) for MLK Jr. Memorial Public Library
bulletBread for City
bulletCapital Pride (Parade Marshals, staffing the BCV and Capital Pride Information booths; providing all volunteers for all aspects of Pride Week)
bulletCity Museum of Washington, DC
bulletDC AIDS Ride (mailings and Closing Ceremonies on the National Mall)
bulletDC Aquatics Club (GLBT swim team) 
bulletDC Central Kitchen (2nd Sunday of every month)
bulletDC Different Drummers
bulletDC Jewish Community Center's December 25 Community Service Project at Mother Dear's Community Center.
bulletDupont Circle Citizens Association House Tour
bulletEquality Maryland (GLBT civil rights organization mailings and event support)
bulletFace of America 2002: Ground Zero to Pentagon Bike Ride.
bulletFamily Pride Coalition
bulletFood & Friends Annual Chef's Best Dinner and Auction
bulletFood & Friends Dining Out for Life (Restaurant Ambassadors)
bulletFood & Friends:  four shifts per month; food preparation and packing.
bulletFriends of Manna Reception
bulletFund for Animals
bulletGay Men's Chorus of Washington Concerts
bulletGenderPAC
bulletGLAAD Media Awards
bulletGLBT Arts Consortium and Capital Hill Arts Workshop.
bulletGLBT Arts Festival and Benefit Concert
bulletGLBT Community Center
bulletGoodwill Embassy Tour at the Indonesian Embassy.
bulletHART (Homeless Animals Rescue Team)
bulletHillwood Museum and Gardens Gay Day
bulletHRC Store & Action Center
bulletHuman Rights Campaign National Dinner
bulletInternational Network of Lesbian and Gay Officials
bulletLambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
bulletLambda Literary Foundation
bulletLesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington
bulletLesbian Services Program of Whitman-Walker Clinic
bulletLGBT Youth Career Day
bulletLost Dog and Cat Rescue Foundation (dog handling for pet adoption)
bulletLyra Chamber Ensemble
bulletMautner Project for Lesbian Health Care
bulletMautner Project Gala and Auction
bulletMayor's Holiday Party for the GLBT Community and Children's Gift Drive
bulletMetro Teen AIDS Annual Gala & Auction.
bulletNAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
bulletNARAL Pro-Choice America
bulletNational AIDS Marathon Training Program
bulletNational Cherry Blossom Festival Parade
bulletNational Coalition Against Domestic Violence
bulletNational Gay and Lesbian Task Force
bulletNational Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
bulletNational Mental Health Awareness Campaign mailing from Tipper Gore, NMHAC Founder and Honorary Chair, concerning the mental health consequences of September 11th, 2001.
bulletNational Race for the Cure
bulletNational Youth Advocacy Coalition
bulletNorthern Virginia AIDS Ministry annual gala event, Imagine, at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria.
bulletOne in Ten's Laugh Out Loud
bulletOut of Darkness (suicide prevention) outreach booths at the NBC4 Health and Fitness Expo.
bulletParents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays – National Office
bulletPartnership for Animal Welfare
bulletPFLAG-DC Gala
bulletPride of Pets-DC Annual Fun Dog Show in Dupont Circle.
bulletReel Affirmations DC's International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
bulletReel Affirmations Film Festival Children's Art Book Drive
bulletReel Affirmations Women's Brunch
bulletRun for Research race benefit for NOVAM, Metro TeenAIDS and The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
bulletScouting for All's 2nd National Annual Rally at Lafayette Park.
bulletServicemembers' Legal Defense Network's Annual End the Witch Hunts
bulletSignature Theatre's production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch".
bulletSMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League)
bulletSunshine Kids
bulletThe Uncommon Legacy Celebration of Women Awards
bulletTour de Friends Closing Ceremonies
bullet Two Day Colon Cancer March Closing Ceremonies
bulletUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum
bulletVictory Fund Anniversary Brunch  
bulletVictory Fund Oates-Shrum Leadership Awards
bulletVoluPalooza:  BCV BBQ at Whole Foods Market on P Street (near 14th Street, NW).
bulletWAMU Membership Campaign
bulletWashington Animal Rescue League.
bulletWashington DC Marathon
bulletWashington Jewish Film Festival
bulletWashington People and Parks historic restoration projects at the Josephine Butler Parks Center.
bulletWendt Center for Loss and Healing
bulletWETA (PBS TV) Pledge Drive.
bulletWhitman-Walker Clinic Food Bank Yard Sale.
bulletWhitman-Walker Clinic of Northern Virginia Healing Garden and Labyrinth
bulletWhitman-Walker Clinic's Annual Gala
bulletWoodley Park Bicentennial House Tour
bulletWorld AIDS Day
bulletYouth Pride Day

 

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