AFFORDABLE HOUSING & RACIAL EQUITY TRAINING

• Groundbreaking on Deanwood Station, a grocery store and 26-unit affordable for-sale condo project targeted at the workforce.
• Launched our Operationalizing Racial Equity curriculum

FUNDING & PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

• Won 1st major grant award
• Launched The MasterClass which trained DC residents on becoming managers in the hospitality industry

PROPERTY ACQUISITION & RESEARCH

• Purchased our first lot of land, the future home of Deanwood Station
• Published our first research paper on evaluating D.C.’s gun violence prevention program

1ST HIRES

• Launched the Summer Fellow program with American and Georgetown universities
• Hiring 1st full-time Executive Director and Policy Analyst

REAL ESTATE

• Launched RR Ventures to be our for-profit development arm in the DMV
• Completed two single-family home developments and purchased the 1st condo conversion project

A SERIES OF FIRSTS

• Launched mortgage calculator as our 1st product
• Executed evaluation contracts with the states of Rhode Island and Kentucky

ESTABLISHED

Founded as a think “and create” tank that would do policy and innovation under the same roof