Features

Elevation DC's 2015 coworking guide

Whitney Pipkin Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Work from home? Starting a side hustle? This is the only map and guide you'll ever need.

Downtown, Georgetown/Glover Park, Columbia Heights-Mount Pleasant, Shaw, Anacostia, Adams Morgan, Dupont Circle/Logan Circle

A dedicated group of businesses turn the tide on a once-struggling block

Rachel Kaufman Monday, March 09, 2015

Local businesses formed a collective to rebrand their block, and it looks like it's working.

Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Retail

U Street

UDC a leader in urban gardening research

Whitney Pipkin Tuesday, March 03, 2015

The University of the District of Columbia is the only exclusively urban university in the country created to provide agricultural training to the public. As such, it's uniquely positioned to help urban farmers.

Education, Food Systems

Behind the success of DC's unstoppable food incubator, Union Kitchen

Allyson Jacob Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Union Kitchen's cofounder says its businesses have collectively generated $40 million in revenue. And it's about to triple in size.

Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Food Systems, Restaurants, Retail

H Street, NoMa

For local, small charities, print--or at least one book--isn't dead

Derek Johnson Monday, February 23, 2015

For over a decade, the Catalogue For Philanthropy Greater Washington has helped do-gooders decide how to "give where they live." But it hasn't always been this way (and founder Barbara Harman used to have nightmares about it failing). Here's the story of one book that really changes lives.

For Good / Non Profit

Asheru�emcee, DC native, educator�uses hip-hop for change

Emily Rabbitt Tuesday, February 17, 2015

“Hip-hop is all grown up now. KRS-One is 50. I’m forty....[But] hip-hop is an approach, a world view, and hip-hop-heads are in academia, in corporate life.”

Education, For Good / Non Profit, The Arts

Congress Heights

Epic pictures from the Dupont Circle snowball fight

James Cullum Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Photographer James Cullum captured these shots at the mass snowball fight at Dupont Circle on February 17.

Dupont Circle/Logan Circle

When the high school health class isn't enough, enter Peer Health Exchange

Christina Sturdivant Tuesday, February 10, 2015

An innovative program--in D.C. and just five other cities nationwide--aims to supplement high-school health class so kids can learn how to make good decisions. For Delaney Balderas, it's also a chance to put her studies into real-world work.

For Good / Non Profit, Health and Wellbeing

The Hill

National spotlight: what smart cities can learn from Minneapolis, capital of "the North"

Brian Martucci Tuesday, February 10, 2015

City leaders believe that Minneapolis should be the first non-coastal city that knowledge workers and business leaders think of after Chicago. Here's why.

CLIPS: Brookland barber searching for a new home (now with audio!)

Rachel Kaufman Tuesday, February 03, 2015

M&S Barber Services, a fixture in Brookland for almost 20 years, needs to find a new location. But the story of one barber shop versus neighborhood change is so much bigger.

Clips, Community Development

Brookland

Elevation Q&A: Tommy Wells on urban agriculture, playgrounds, and a tree summit

Alison Gillespie Tuesday, February 03, 2015

In early January, Tommy Wells was appointed Acting Director of the District Department of the Environment (DDOE). A few weeks after he took over, Elevation DC sat down to talk with him about his vision for his department and his priorities for the coming years.

Anacostia River, City Planning, Food Systems, Green Tech, Sustainability

Downtown, Capitol Riverfront

A hunger for arts east of the river

Rachel Kaufman Tuesday, January 27, 2015

A number of arts organizations—many of them less than a decade old—are slowly turning Wards 7 and 8 from “art deserts” to art destinations. But the change of pace is slower than many would like.

Community Development, The Arts

Congress Heights, Anacostia

The Cyber Beltway: the startups tackling 2015's biggest challenge

Allyson Jacob Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Sony was hacked. Obama cited cybersecurity in the State of the Union. This is a real issue, and area startups and incubators are rising to the challenge.

Entrepreneurship, Technology

Will Play for Tuition

Christina Sturdivant Tuesday, January 20, 2015

These Howard University student musicians aren't your average buskers.

The Arts

Shaw, Dupont Circle/Logan Circle

Groundbreaking police-community partnerships offer ways to improve neighborhood safety

Brandon Alcorn Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Dozens of communities across the U.S. have formed effective, ongoing partnerships with the police, improving safety and trust between residents and law enforcement.

Community Development, For Good / Non Profit