The 20th annual Harvest Feast is in partnership with regional hunger relief organization Capital Area Food Bank, Bank of America, FedEx, Paisano’s Pizza, PepsiCo, the Prince George’s County Department of Social Services, and Safeway.
Coppin State University announced the appointment of Chad Williams as the first executive director of the West North Avenue Development Authority in Baltimore.
“The timing was really right,” said Jamila Larson, co-founder and executive director of the program.
The Homeless Children’s Playtime Project partners with area homeless shelters and transitional housing programs to provide a place for children experiencing housing insecurity to socialize, play and learn.
They’ve been exclusively in D.C., but they found a need to expand into nearby Prince George’s County.
“As D.C. moves away from large congregate care shelters by closing D.C. General and the overflow hotel shelters into smaller neighborhood-based shelters, they don’t always have space for programming,” Larson said. “We know that a lot of families in the D.C. area are finding themselves in Prince George’s County, so we thought it was time to reach out beyond our traditional borders.”