Washington D.C. Region

Publications on District of Columbia

Anthony A. Williams, the District of Columbia's two-term mayor from 1999 to 2006, has become a member of the Urban Institute's Board of Trustees.

This study examines immigrant integration through the lens of community-based organizations. Based on interviews with nonprofit leaders and an analysis of data from the National Center for Charitable Statistics, the study found that immigrant-serving nonprofits provide a wide range of programs and services to foreign-born communities which promote the social and political mobility of newcomers. Findings also suggest a potential spatial mismatch between immigrant-serving organizations and the people they serve. The organizations are concentrated in the metropolitan area while immigrant populations are growing in the outer suburbs. Moreover, different political and administrative structures and policies affect the ability of these nonprofits to serve their constituents.

Leadership Greater Washington, the Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington, Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Urban Institute co-hosted an event to discuss the foreclosure crisis and its impact in the greater Washington D.C. region. As part of the event, the Urban Institute released it’s seventh in a series of annual reports, Housing in the Nation's Capital. This year's report focused on the foreclosure crisis and examined the level and trends of foreclosures and outlined potential secondary effects for families and neighborhoods.

A research and information center on crime prevention and public safety in Washington, D.C., is being created at the Urban Institute with an $800,000 grant from the Executive Office of the Mayor.

Nonprofits face growing demands to demonstrate their impact. Their ability to report on program performance is essential to organizational legitimacy and financial survival. This report chronicles the evaluation experiences of four youth-serving nonprofits that participated in the East of the River Initiative, a multi-year effort to increase the capacity of agencies to assess their performance. We detail key successes and challenges with the goal of sparking a dialogue between nonprofits, funders, and technical assistance providers about the proper value of evaluation in the sector.