2020
YEAR IN REVIEW
Friends, We hope that you are well and staying safe. It has been a tumultuous year and one that shows how we must work together for a more sustainable and equitable future. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we campaigned for access to greenspace and safe, open streets for people. We made a rapid pivot to produce high-quality online events and webinars, and decided to close our physical office for up to a year. Be sure to note our new mailing address. As a team, we had many conversations regarding the demonstrations for racial justice and equity and are committed to centering racial equity in our work. We released a statement on our commitment to fight for racial equity and a Call to Action for Sustainability and Equity. We continue to work to identify our biases, collaborate with a diverse set of partner organizations, and try to uplift marginalized voices in the smart growth community. We’ve continued our high pace of advocacy, expanded our partnerships, and capitalized on our relationships with decision makers to win more affordable housing, more transit-oriented development, better bus service, and safer streets. But with less than 10 years to dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions, we must push our region even harder. Bill Pugh recently joined the team as our Senior Policy Fellow to lead our climate campaign, and we hope you will join us in this critical fight. The good news is that our smart growth solutions are also climate solutions. Thank you for your support! Stewart, Cheryl, Jane, Sonya, Emily and Bill
The Coalition for Smarter Growth advocates for walkable, bikeable, inclusive, and transit-oriented communities as the most sustainable and equitable way for the Washington, DC region to grow and provide opportunities for all. We believe in the strength of partnerships and our victories would not be possible without our many partners across all sectors. Here are a few of our coalitions: We organized Montgomery for All, a grassroots group advocating for progressive updates to the county’s general plan. We co-founded Rise Prince George’s to improve access to economic opportunities with transit-oriented development (TOD) and helped form Maryland Advocates for Sustainable Transportation (MAST). We coordinate the DC Housing Priorities Coalition, and support Ward3Vision, which advocates for TOD, and an inclusive Ward 3 and city. We helped form Fairfax Healthy Communities with conservation, housing, climate, transportation, and racial equity organizations and are part of Liveable Alexandria, committed to affordable housing, TOD, transit, and safe street design. We are leaders in the Virginia Conservation Network, focusing on land use, transportation reform, housing, and climate. Finally, we team with business leaders in the MetroNow coalition, which won dedicated Metro funding and campaigns for bus transformation.
Thank you to these photographers for the use of their wonderful images in this report: COVER: Streatery/Ted Eytan; Golden/Mike Maguire, PG 3 Boarding/Kara Young, FLUM/DC Office of Planning, DTSS/Elvert Barnes, Courageous Conversations/National Archives, W&OD Trail/NoVA Parks, Flash Bus/Elvert Barnes, Open Street/Ted Eytan, Metro Mask/Elvert Barnes, Speed Reduction/Vision Zero Network, Silver Spring Metro/Joe Flood, Dogue Creek/Betsy Martin, Vote/Abigail Zenner, Roundabout/Piedmont Environmental Council, Route 28/Mark Scheufler, Highway/formulanone, Draft DC Comp Plan/Housing Element, ADU Manual/UPO, Open Streets/Ted Eytan, Car-Free East Capitol/angela n., Ben’s Chili Bowl/Ted Eytan. Additional photos from Kristina Volgenau, Insung Yoon, Sara Cottle. Flickr photos licensed via Creative Commons or by permission via our Greater and Lesser Washington Flickr pool. All other photos not listed here are CSG file photos by CSG staff. For hyperlinks to the original photos on Flickr, please contact our office.
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2020’s top stories
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DC’s Comprehensive Plan Over the past four years, we’ve worked to ensure DC’s Comp Plan update creates a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable city. While we won the Framework Element putting housing first, especially around transit, we’ve had to fight for the rest of the plan. For the first time, it would set specific affordable housing goals for each part of the city, even exclusive upper Northwest. We’ve pushed all year for Council action, with hearings finally taking place in November.
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More housing for Montgomery Many of Montgomery’s transit centers have been under a housing moratorium due to school overcrowding, even though most new students come from turnover of existing single family homes. The moratorium pushed new growth away from transit and job hubs. CSG’s Maryland Advocacy Manager, Jane Lyons, helped guide new recommendations as a member of a community advisory team and collaborated with parents and neighbors to end the counterproductive housing moratorium.
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Courageous Conversations We partnered with Kaiser Permanente, Challenging Racism, and a diverse planning committee of Black community leaders to host a series of courageous conversations on housing, land use, and the history of redlining and segregation in Montgomery County. Over a hundred community members participated in facilitated discussions about how exclusionary policies impact who can live where, and what can be done to create more welcoming neighborhoods.
Active transportation Together with George Mason University and our partners, we hosted a successful 3-part webinar series highlighting active transportation in Northern Virginia. Local officials, transportation and health professionals, and community advocates tuned in to discuss new Virginia laws making it safer for biking and walking, COVID-19’s impact on local trails and bikeshare, and the challenges implementing safe street projects. Our campaign for safer streets continues, including a virtual summit planned for Spring 2021. Coalition for Smarter Growth | Annual Report 2020
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Open and shared streets
Safer streets, sustainable transportation
Amid the pandemic, more people than ever are spending time outside, using our parks and streets for recreation and exercise. CSG joined the worldwide campaign for reimagining how we use our streets. In Montgomery, we partnered with WABA and local advocates to push county officials for neighborhood greenways, streeteries, and shared streets. In Fairfax, we partnered with FABB and were successful in getting the county to create two open street sections, one on Tysons Boulevard and another on Government Center Parkway. DC has done much better, but the entire region is falling short.
Smart growth means transit and local street networks that are safe for walking and bicycling.
Emergency federal transit funding
Better buses Buses are essential for a sustainable, equitable transportation system. With our MetroNow coalition we are campaigning for bus network redesign, dedicated lanes, and affordable fares. After years of CSG advocacy, 16th Street bus lanes are starting construction, the city has a new Bus Priority program, and more bus lanes are coming online. Our Montgomery campaign bore fruit with the opening of the county’s first bus rapid transit line, the Flash, on Route 29, and we’ve pulled together a diverse coalition of labor, environmental, transit, and equity advocates on a platform for reimagining and redesigning local bus service in the county.
Due to an increase in telework and uncertainty about safety, transit ridership has plummeted, threatening transit’s ability to support our workforce and economy. CSG partnered with a national coalition of transit advocates to win emergency CARES Act funding, and we’ve continued fighting for transit in a second stimulus package. We organized a letter to the Capital region’s Congressional delegation, securing over a hundred sign-ons from a broad spectrum of business, environment, and labor groups, and elected officials -- from Richmond to Baltimore.
Increased transit funding in Virginia Our multi-year campaign for transportation reform in Virginia, based on our 2005 Reconnecting Virginia vision, saw more progress this year with the restructuring of transportation formulas to increase transit’s share of funding. The state also committed a record $3.7 billion investment in the intercity rail network, including a new Long Bridge over the Potomac and purchase of CSX right of way from DC to North Carolina. The Administration is also funding free or reduced transit fares.
Fighting for a safer Richmond Highway We led our partners in the Route 1 corridor in Fairfax advocating for needed safety improvements for a corridor with a high rate of pedestrian fatalities and injuries. Thanks to our advocacy, VDOT is studying reducing the speed limit to a safer 35 mph, but they remain entrenched against physically redesigning the road with narrower travel lanes, more frequent pedestrian crossings, and shorter crossing distances. CSG remains committed to fighting for the walkable, transit-oriented community envisioned by residents. Coalition for Smarter Growth | Annual Report 2020
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Incentives for Montgomery TOD
Transit-oriented development
We campaigned to win passage of two important policies that will support sustainable growth patterns by targeting more housing and jobs at Metro stations. First, the county eliminated its housing moratorium through its new growth policy and adjusted impact fees and transportation tests to encourage more walkable infill development. Second, Montgomery passed a 15-year property tax exemption for high-rise construction on Metro property. Combining our policy expertise, relationships with officials, and supporter base, we led on both measures, and our supporters sent a total of 200 letters to decision makers.
Smart growth means community commitment to creating walkable, mixed-use, transit-accessible places.
DC’s Comprehensive Plan The DC Comp Plan update has been unusually drawn out. CSG’s Policy Director, Cheryl Cort, has been there every step of the way and mobilized allies to support the draft plan which sets strong goals for affordable housing in each ward and more housing near transit stations and corridors. We led the Housing Priorities Coalition, met with councilmembers and staff, worked closely with Ward3Vision to inform the community about a legacy of exclusion in Ward 3 and to generate strong Ward 3 support for the plan, co-hosted a forum with Young Transportation Professionals, and sent frequent alerts to our supporters, generating dozens of letters to Council.
Planning for Montgomery
West Falls Church
Inclusive land use policies are key to creating more welcoming, mixed-income communities. We are organizing a diverse grassroots movement for smart growth in Montgomery County. Our community-led group, Montgomery for All, grew to over 150 supporters and has been the leading voice on the county’s general plan update, which will guide land use for the next 30+ years. The group also won an expansion of the Silver Spring Downtown Plan’s boundaries, so that the plan will now consider a range of housing options in the neighborhoods adjacent to the downtown core.
West Falls Church is undergoing a transformation into an inclusive walkable, transit-oriented community. The City portion is well underway, while Fairfax County, WMATA, and VATech continue their planning for a community that will include schools, jobs, housing and retail. CSG and partners are working to ensure inclusion of affordable housing, enhanced stormwater management, and a focus on people, not cars, with a safe network for walking and biking and good interconnection between bus, BRT, and Metrorail. Coalition for Smarter Growth | Annual Report 2020
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Route 15 and rural scenic byways
More open space, less sprawl
The battle for the future of Route 15 continues. Loudoun County’s push to widen Route 15 north of Leesburg to four lanes while retaining traffic lights will not only make it less safe but will induce more traffic and speculative land development. Now there is a study of Route 15 south of Leesburg. Working with partners, we still hope to win our safer, context-sensitive alternative: two lanes with roundabouts and traffic calming.
Route 28 at Manassas
Smart growth means protecting our forests and farms from sprawl, and protecting our water and our future.
We joined the campaign for an effective solution for Route 28 near Manassas. The alternative developed by a local activist and planner would fix the existing Route 28, creating a local street network and walkable community in Yorkshire, with a dedicated bus rapid transit lane. Unfortunately, the Prince William Board and NoVA Transportation Authority ignored local opposition and selected a new bypass route that will take homes, impact a minority community, pave a stretch of stream valley, and impact Bull Run. The fight will continue.
Climate change With transportation now the #1 source of our region’s greenhouse gas emissions, we must reduce vehicle miles traveled by creating transit-oriented communities, “15-minute walkable neighborhoods,” and more frequent transit. Unfortunately, we aren’t seeing the commitment from area officials meeting at the Council of Governments and Transportation Planning Board to reduce emissions generated by poor land use, highway expansion, and increased driving. That’s why we hired Senior Policy Fellow Bill Pugh to focus on the land use, transportation, climate connection, and are initiating a major regional campaign.
I-495 and I-270 Toll Lane Expansion The State of Maryland has pressed forward with proposed widening and tolling for the Capital Beltway (I-495) and I-270, despite the destructive impacts on parkland, stormwater, and air quality. We’ve coordinated with partners and local residents to push for a more sustainable alternative centered on transit, demand management, and transitoriented land use, and hired a national traffic modeling expert to expose the flaws in the state analysis. Our coalition, Maryland Advocates for Sustainable Transportation (MAST), collaborated to help residents submit comments on the project’s draft environmental impact statement. Coalition for Smarter Growth | Annual Report 2020
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Accessory apartments
Affordable housing
We released the definitive DC homeowner’s manual for creating accessory apartments (ADUs) in partnership with United Planning Organization (UPO) and funded by Citi Community Investing and Development. ADUs offer new housing options and provide income to the owner or the flexibility to accommodate a family member. We hosted education events and an online forum, and worked closely with officials to make designing, financing and building an accessory unit easier. It’s paying off with major improvements to the permit process. We also supported Alexandria’s ADU study and pressed Fairfax to do more than their current proposal.
Smart growth means using every tool we have to ensure people have safe, affordable places to live.
Progress on housing in Prince George’s We have long pressed Prince George’s to do more to address affordable housing needs, and over the last year we’ve worked with decision-makers and allies on the Housing Opportunities for All Workgroup and the Purple Line Coalition’s Housing Action Team toward dedicating increased resources to preserving and building homes for residents whose incomes are stretched too thin. We are also broadening our engagement with Prince George’s activists - in our group Rise Prince George’s - to promote more housing, transit-oriented development, and improved transit.
A more inclusive DC DC’s existing Comp Plan is outdated and does not provide the long-term vision we need to address our city’s stark racial disparities in housing, health, and economic opportunity. At the heart of the revised Comp Plan are provisions to increase housing options across the city, especially near transit. The plan also includes specific policies and actions for COVID-19 response and recovery. We have fought to get the plan approved in 2020, because stretching out adoption will stall new housing and inhibit the investment we need for an equitable economic recovery.
Expanding Inclusionary Zoning To complement the increase in density and housing capacity proposed in the Comp Plan’s Future Land Use Map, we proposed and fought for an Expanded Inclusionary Zoning requirement for any upzoning to capture some of the increased value and pay for more affordable units. Thanks to our efforts, the DC Zoning Commission is now considering expanding inclusionary zoning to provide more units in rezonings that increase the density of the property or convert the use to residential, while ensuring project feasibility. Coalition for Smarter Growth | Annual Report 2020
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We honored Celeste James, Executive Director for Community Health at Kaiser Permanente, with our Livable Communities Leadership Award in June
We co-hosted a virtual stream walk with Audubon Naturalist Society and Fairfax County highlighting opportunities to combine Route 1 redevelopment with stream restoration.
More Highlights from 2020 We are honored to work with so many great advocates, business leaders, and officials for a more inclusive and sustainable region.
In early 2020, we joined other transportation advocates in Annapolis, MD to protest the proposed expansion of I-495/I-270.
We honored Bob Ward of Cleveland Park Smart Growth, Michelle Winters of Alliance for Housing Solutions, and Partap Verma and the Friends of Forest Glen and Montgomery Hills with our Community Hero Award in June
Beth Osborne, Director of Transportation for America, inspired us with the opportunities for reforming our nation’s transportation program at our Smart Growth Social in October.
3,090 comments from supporters and activists were sent to local, state, and regional decision makers this year via CSG’s online action tools.
The prestigious Catalogue for Philanthropy has named us “one of the best” communitybased nonprofit organizations every year since 2004
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mentions of CSG in the media so far this year on transportation, land use, and housing issues, plus an appearance on WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Show
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Education and Engagement
Speaking Up
Smart growth means informed and engaged advocates shaping the future of our community.
We speak up in favor of smart growth projects and policies, while encouraging our supporters to do so as well. We also oppose projects that undermine a sustainable region.
Our 2020 education events
• Grosvenor Metro Station
• Support for infill development in Cleveland Park, DC
During this year of COVID-19, we jumped into a full schedule of online events and webinars, including two virtual walking tours.
• Montgomery Complete Streets Design Guide • Dale Drive pedestrian facility
• Support for DC alley lot zoning rules to facilitate more housing
• Active Transportation Webinar series in NoVA
• Montgomery for All meetings
• Re-opening Ellsworth Drive to pedestrians
• Metro budget
• Virtual Stream Walk in Fairfax
• Virtual walkable neighborhood tour in Montgomery
• Maryland and Virginia state legislation
• How-to webinars on accessory dwellings (ADU) in DC
• Fairfax Healthy Communities meetings
• Forum with Ward3Vision on the DC comp plan
• Thrive 2050 Testimony Writing Workshop
• Fairfax, Montgomery, Prince George’s & DC budgets
• Washington Union Station Expansion Project (support alternative)
• Forum with Young Transportation Professionals on DC Comp Plan & transportation
• Montgomery Advocacy Training
• DC Comp Plan testimony workshop
• Smart growth presentation to the Metropolitan Club of DC
• Courageous Conversations on Housing, Land Use, and Racism in Montgomery
• Smart growth and climate presentation to Virginia foundations
• Alexandria Accessory Dwelling Unit Study
• Loudoun Route 15 widening (support alternative)
• Fairfax County’s zMOD zoning amendments
• Prince William Route 28 bypass (oppose, support alternative)
• Richmond Highway safety improvements
• 495/270 HOT Lanes study (oppose)
• 495 NEXT HOT lanes (oppose)
• Virginia transit and rail funding • Federal emergency transit funding
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Who we are Staff
Stewart Schwartz
Cheryl Cort
Jane Lyons
Sonya Breehey
Emily Maurer
Bill Pugh
Executive Director
Policy Director
Maryland Advocacy Manager
Northern Virginia Advocacy Manager
Communications and Administration Assistant
Senior Policy Fellow
Champions Council We sincerely thank our Champions Council, an accomplished team that advises the Coalition for Smarter Growth to help us carry out our mission. Our Champions Council includes experienced leaders across business, development, housing, transportation, media, and academic fields.
Andrew Aurbach
Communications consultant & media producer
Jim Campbell
Somerset Development
Allison Davis
Washington Metro
Ronald Eichner
New Legacy Partners
Rodney Harrell, PhD
AARP
Steven E. Jones
CPA, MSOD
We look forward to adding new members to our Champions Council in 2021, particularly to restore our gender diversity!
Robert Puentes
Eno Center for Transportation
Dan Reed
Toole Design Group
Douglas Stewart
Fairfax City Citizens for Smarter Growth
Lee Farmer
VHB
Champions Council business affiliations are for reference only and do not imply endorsement.
Our parent organization:
The Coalition for Smarter Growth is grateful to our parent organization, the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Warrenton, Virginia. PEC provides accounting, tax reporting, and human resources support, and segregates contributions made to CSG. Copies of PEC’s most recent audited financial statements and IRS Form 990, which incorporates the activities of CSG, are available online at pecva.org/donate. For more information, please contact us at (202) 675-0016.
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2019 Financial report Sources of Organizational Support Foundations
$358,000 57.6%
Individuals
$129,687 21%
Corporate and organizational
$101,350
Fee-for-service
Total
16.3%
$31,681 5.1%
$645,026 100%
Operating expenditures Personnel and related costs Salaries and staff benefits
$441,260
Consultants and professional fees $25,639 Subtotal, Personnel
$466,899
74.5% 4.3% 78.8%
General expenses Advertising
$1,024 0.2%
Meetings and conferences
$6,322
1.0%
Hosted events
$16,639
2.8%
Rent and occupancy
$50,894
8.6%
Communications
$23,499 4.0%
Travel Postage and Delivery
$8,042 1.4% $1,125
0.2%
Printing, copying, publications
$1,960
0.3%
Supplies and equipment
$7,001
1.2%
Dues and subscriptions
$2,586
0.4%
Misc fees and insurance
$6,056
1.0%
$125,148
21.1.%
Subtotal, General expenses
Total
$592,047 100%
FY2020 numbers are not yet available at print deadline, as our fiscal year ends on December 31.. Coalition for Smarter Growth | Annual Report 2020 20
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2019 Contributions We are incredibly grateful to the foundations, organizations, firms, and every one of the individual donors who make our work possible. We are able to list within available space 291 donors whose contributions of $100+ we received between January 1 and December 31, 2019. Smart Growth Guardians
George Ohrstrom II
EastBanc
Charles Denney
Barbara Sanders
Otto Condon
Ileana Schinder
Elizabeth Borkowski
Parris Glendening
Mark Ohrstrom
Rachel Flynn
Mitch Diamond
Sonia Conly
John Schisler
Rich Bradley
Steven Greenwaters
$20,000+
Stonebridge
Tom Gutierrez
Martin Ditto
Gregory Sanders/ Kate Malloy
Barbara Sears
Sonya Breehey
Peter Hawley
Rebecca Tapick
Bart Harvey
Fehr & Peers
Lee Schoenecker
Veronica Davis Rachel Davis
David Sears
Lora Byala
Diane Hibino
The Webb Companies
Hines
Michael Fine
Brian Ditzler
James Sebastian
Karen Campblin
Paula Hirschoff
Wolf Run Foundation
Steven E. Jones
FourSquareITP
Robert Sheehan
Stephen Cerny
Melanie Isis
Joseph Kakesh
Jim Gray
Stout & Teague
Jim Durham Jim Epstein
Matt Schuneman
Sivakumar Chandran
Karl Jentoft
Smart Growth Champions
Lerch, Early, & Brewer
Greater Washington Board of Trade
Urban Land Institute VHB
Lance Eubanks
Sierra Club - Virginia Chapter
Andrew Clarke
Ellen Jones
Smith Group JJR
Catherine Kennedy
Conor Shaw
Wall to Wall Builders
Marcie Cohen
$2500-$4999
Michael Hechter The Henry Foundation
Wesley Housing
Paula Cohen
Rob Klein
Thomas Hier
Valerie & John Wheeler
Ann Thompson Cook
Matthew & Regina Koch
Mary Hynes
Gerry Widdicombe
Kelsey Crane
Jonathan Krall
David Kaplan
Robert Wulff
Don Cuming
Celeste Land
KGP Design Studio
Tom Yost
Ronit Dancis
Dan Lantner
Kittleson
Mariia Zimmerman
Adam Davis
Doug Larson
Klein Hornig, LLP
Christopher Zimmerman
Edward Demers
Samuel Leverenz
Bee Ditzler
Brian Levy
Rosalyn Doggett
Roger Lewis
Mortimer Downey
Jeremy Loveman-Welsh
Robert Duffy
Yakir Lubowsky
Chris Earley
Joy Markowitz
Lee Epstein
Therese Martin
Brandon Estela
Christine Matthews
John Evans
Barbara McCann
Lee Farmer
Brian McEntee
Elizabeth Farry
Sarah McMeans
Andrew Fellows
Matthew Miller
Eddie Fendley
Pat Munoz
Jay Fisette
Randall Myers
Chris Forinash
Lowell Nelson
Walker Freer
Elisa M. Ortiz
Ralph Garboushian
Robert Peck
Reinaldo Germano
Andrew Pendleton
Dannielle Glaros
Peter Pennington
The Campbell Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Prince Charitable Trusts Share Fund TransitCenter
Smart Growth Defenders $5000-$19,999 David Alpert Akridge Anonymous Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. EYA Federal Realty Investment Trust Fivesquares Allen Greenberg JBG Smith The LWH Family Foundation Jean Perin Bill and Molly Pugh National Association of Realtors
AARP Bozzuto The Chevy Chase Land Company Cooper Carry New Legacy Partners
Cozen O’Connor Robert Sheehan SJG Properties Don, Tina and Jessie Slater WC Smith Leslie Steen Douglas Stewart
Revenue Authority of Prince George’s County
Toole Design
Sierra Club - Washington DC Chapter
Torti Gallas + Partners
Somerset Development Company
ZGF Architects LLP
Harriet Tregoning
Smart Growth Stewards $1000-$2499 Madhav Acharya Bill Alsup Geoff Anderson Laurence Aurbach Elizabeth Barrett Allison Davis Marcia Degarmo
John Torti Wells & Associates
Smart Growth Patrons $500-$999 AHC Inc. BB&T Kaid Benfield Roger Berliner Matthew Carver Payton Chung Crystal City BID Cunningham & Quill
Shalom Baranes Linda Singer
Macerich Tom Metcalf
Smart Growth Advocates
William Millar
$250-$499
Diana Mendes
Dr. Robert B Moler Anita Morrison NOMA BID Jeffrey Norman Lena O’Rourke/ Richard Price
Anne Ambler Anonymous Tad Baldwin Ellen Bass Matthew Bell
Partners for Economic Solutions
David Bowers
Geoff Patterson
Jason Broehm
Perkins Eastman
Jim and Tina Brown
Mark Perreault
Nicholas Burger
Mary Pierce
Kevin Bush
Renaissance Planning
Combined Federal Campaign
Kendra Briechle
Fehr & Peers James Feldman Miti Figueredo Nancy Fox William Gallagher Jennifer Glasser John Goodman Daniel Guilbeault Rodney Harrell Alex Horowitz Lee Kimball Susan Kimmel Steve Knight Marc Korman George Lamb Glenn MacCullough Jacob Mason Joe McAndrew/ Jessica Bloomfield Kathy McGuire Deirdre Middleton Mark Obrinksy Alex Posorske Shelley Poticha Tom Quinn Michael Replogle
Nancy Soreng Jeff Speck Laura Ann Tekrony Francine Trull Theresa Twiford Scudder Wagg Steve Weitz Jordan Wilcox Dan Winston Bruce Wright Sam Zimbabwe
Smart Growth Supporters $100-$249 Bruce Adams Dean Amel Susan Auerhan Matthew Bank Kelley Banks Ann Bauer Gregory Billing Gem Bingol Jeff Blum
Piedmont Environmental Council Robert Puentes Claire Randall Richard Reed Stephen Repetski Thomas Ross John Schick Denise Schlener Ari Schnitzer Peter Shapiro Kieran & Barbara Sharpe Rosemary Sheridan Betsy Sherman Matthew Sherring Eleanor Skelly Christopher Slatt Wade Smith Frank Spielberg Matthew Steil Jeb Stenhouse Tim Stevens Elizabeth Stone Yolanda Takesian Jane Thurber Prem Vadlamudi Chris Vanarsdale Betty Gill Ware Martha Wingfield Paul Zeisset Abigail Zenner
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Keep us working for smart growth. For walkable, inclusive, transit-accessible communities. We are proud to be a results-driven organization committed to promoting a sustainable vision of where and how the Washington DC region should grow. We’ve been recognized multiple times as one of the region’s best nonprofits by the prestigious Catalogue for Philanthropy — that means you can trust us to spend your dollars carefully to support our programs. Your donation is important to us! You can donate online anytime at smartergrowth.net/donate. If you have questions or are interested in using a donor advised fund, donating stocks, making a planned gift, setting up an employer matching program, or donating in honor or in memory of someone, please contact our development team at donations@smartergrowth.net or (202) 657-0016.
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