There are more than 14,000 homeless people in the Washington D.C. region, and nearly half of those are families. Nearly one-third of the region's homeless are children, and up to 1,700 area families are homeless on any given night.
Source: National Alliance to End Homelessness and Freddie Mac
Be The Change In DC (BTCDC) intends to put a young, "hip" spin on helping those less fortunate through events, both social and service in nature, that are meant to give college-aged people and young (or young-at-heart) professionals a new and exciting way to help out the community and also meet others with similar interests. In helping out the homeless of Washington, D.C., BTCDC does not want compete with existing organizations, but rather work with them to fill in the gaps of taking a homeless person off the streets.
In serving the community, our goal at BTCDC is also to empower, support and advise current homeless people to to enable us to help other homeless people more effectively and efficiently, because who better to help those less fortunate than someone who has slept on the same benches and ate at the same soup kitchens.