June 30, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Calvary Women’s Services today announced that it has received a $25,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to further its mission of empowering women to end their homelessness an…
June 23, 2016
We asked women living at Calvary one question…. “What is hope?” Women who come to Calvary find housing, health, education and employment programs that empower them to transform their…
June 9, 2016
A guest post from our 2016 Hope Awards Dinner Honoree, Erica May-Scherzer. By operating the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) hotline, we know homelessness is a vulnerability traffick…
April 19, 2016
Calvary Women’s Services has partnered with Service Never Sleeps (SNS) – a nonprofit organization with a mission “to transform communities by mobilizing young professionals to combat urgent soci…
March 24, 2016
Calvary Women’s Services has seen many changes over the past 15 years. Thousands of women have lived at Calvary and moved on to their own homes after accessing services that empower them to make sig…
March 8, 2016
In honor of International Women’s Day today, volunteers and staff reflected on how they see women’s empowerment, equality and opportunity in their work at Calvary. Join our International Women’s…
February 9, 2016
Every year around Valentine’s Day, groups and individuals around the world observe the holiday by bringing awareness to women’s issues. They do this through dramatic readings, advocacy-focused eve…
January 26, 2016
If you are looking for the perfect excuse to get a haircut next week, feel free to use this! Hair Cuttery salons all over the DC metro region will donate free haircuts to individuals who are homeless…
January 13, 2016
Every Friday afternoon in Calvary’s Life Skills, Education and Art Program (LEAP), women can participate in a class called “Art Works.” Some afternoons women busily work on watercolor paintings.…