About WIN
Washington Interfaith Network (WIN), founded in 1996, is a broad-based, multi-racial,
multi-faith, strictly non-partisan, District-wide citizens’ power organization, rooted in
local congregations and associations. WIN is committed to training and developing
neighborhood leaders to address community issues and to holding elected and
corporate officials accountable in Washington, DC. WIN’s 36 dues-paying member
organizations represent 125,000 members in every section of the District. WIN's
members reflect its theological, racial, geographic, and economic diversity.
WIN seeks to create long-term power through a broad and united front of organized institutions and
organized people acting consistently and persistently for change on multiple issues at the neighborhood,
city-wide, regional and national levels. WIN engages leaders across the divides of race, culture, income,
faith, and neighborhood to initiate public action on their issues and to partner with and hold the
government and corporate sectors accountable for addressing these issues.
Over the past 20 years, WIN has organized to protect over 500 affordable apartments from being torn
down or converted to condominiums, has demanded that the District turn over public land to build
172 Nehemiah homes for working families to purchase, and has been responsible for building 305
affordable rental apartments for families and seniors. WIN also organized the historic Neighborhoods
First campaign that increased voter turnout in key neighborhoods by as much as 20% and as a result
successfully fought for and won $120 Million in neighborhood investment to rebuild libraries, parks,
community centers in targeted neighborhoods that were being left behind.
We invite you to learn more about the work we have done and are currently doing throughout
our Annual Report.
In a city often dominated by partisan and corporate
concerns, WIN is “perhaps the city’s best organized
political counterbalance to business interests.”
― Mike DeBonis, Washington Post, December 2011