It’s GMC’s 12 Days of Giving: Day 1!

Georgetown Ministry Center is excited to announce our 12 Days of Giving Campaign, kicking off today!

This year, we’ve partnered with 11 generous local businesses who have joined forces with us to help end homelessness! These amazing establishments have made in-kind donations to be given away one-by-one during each day of our 12-day online fundraising campaign which will run December 11 – December 22.

The way it works is simple: Each participating establishment has been assigned a day. Donate to GMC on that day, and/or share that day’s campaign link on your Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram accounts (don’t forget to tag GMC so we see it!), and you could win that day’s giveaway! Keep an eye on your inbox (sign up for our newsletter from the homepage of our website if you haven’t already!) and check GMC’s social media pages throughout the life of the campaign to receive details about each day’s prize giveaway.

Day 1’s community supporter is The Kennedy Center!

We’ll be giving away a collection of Kennedy Center performance posters, a 50th Anniversary Washington National Opera coffee table book and an official program book from the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors! (valued at $150)

We hope you’ll join us and our amazing community supporters to achieve our end of year fundraising goal to support GMC’s center operations during the 12 Days of Giving. Donate today!

This year, Georgetown Ministry Center (GMC) marks 30 years of service to people experiencing homelessness in our community. In anticipation of its upcoming annual benefit, the Spirit of Georgetown, GMC invites you to a special Q&A conversation with author, journalist and host of the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown, Sally Quinn, and Leon Weiseltier, of Brookings Institute, writer, critic, philosopher and magazine editor.  They sit down to discuss her new book, Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir, touching upon the topics of spirituality and the ways our various faiths unite us all and shape our views on how to care for people who are less fortunate, as is GMC’s mission.

The event is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP on our Eventbrite page.

Tickets to the 2017 Spirit of Georgetown will be available for sale at the event. Copies of Sally’s book will be for sale and she will be available for book-signing after the Q&A.

About Leon Wieseltier: An American writer, critic, amateur philosopher and magazine editor, Wieseltier served as the literary editor of The New Republic from 1983 to 2014. He is currently the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy at the Brookings Institution and a contributing editor and critic at The Atlantic.

About Sally Quinn: A quintessential Washingtonian, Quinn is an author, television reporter, and journalist who has worked and socialized with the city’s movers and shakers for several decades. For Quinn, the thread tying together the varied facets of her life is spirituality. The creator and moderator of The Washington Post’s religious blog OnFaith.com, the most visited religious site on the web, Quinn focuses on the values and rituals that have given her life meaning.

About Spirit of Georgetown: The Spirit of Georgetown is Georgetown Ministry Center’s highly-anticipated annual benefit. Held every fall in a historic Georgetown home, GMC honors someone who has helped make its work to find solutions to homelessness possible. This year’s Spirit will be hosted by author, journalist and long-time Washingtonian, Sally Quinn, and will honor Mayor Muriel Bowser for her leadership on issues of homelessness.

The 2017 Taste of Georgetown is fast-approaching on September 24th and Georgetown Ministry Center is seeking volunteers to help during the event!

GMC is the beneficiary of this long-running epicurean event that brings together the best of Georgetown’s culinary scene in one taste bud-tantalizing, fun-filled afternoon. We are seeking volunteers to help during the following shifts:

1/2 Day Shift: 10am-1pm

1/2 Day Shift: 1-5pm

Full Day Shift: 10am-5pm

Volunteers will receive 2 Tasting Tickets in return for volunteering. If you are interested in volunteering, please email carolyn@gmcgt.org to receive more info & sign up!

All of us at GMC want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our DoMore24 MixxedFit event, donated to support our work, or told your friends and coworkers about GMC! You all made DoMore24 a success. We couldn’t do any of our work to end homelessness one person at a time without you, so thank you!

Check out a few pictures from the day. A special thank you to the Georgetown BID for providing the sound system, Grace Episcopal Church for letting us use the churchyard, and to Sabrina Burrell, Samuel Washington, and Tiffancy Barnes, our instructors for the afternoon. Get excited for another DoMore24 next year! You can mark your calendars for June 2, 2017.