Community Groups
Voting Information
Make your voice heard by voting in the election on November 3, 2020. All area jurisdictions have plans in place to make voting as safe as can be during a pandemic AND as secure as ever.
Start now to ensure you are registered and that you have requested a mail ballot or plan to vote in person, and then learn about the candidates and the issues.
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Community Links
City of Takoma Park Board of Elections
Phone: 301-891-7267
Email: jessiec@takomaparkmd.gov
Web: http://www.TakomaParkMD.gov
City of Takoma Park Emergency Preparedness/Police Department
Phone: 301-891-7126
Email: ronh@takomaparkmd.gov
Web: http://www.takomaparkmd.gov/bcc/emergency-preparedness-committee
City of Takoma Park Housing and Community Development Department
Phone: 301-651-6764
City of Takoma Park Recreation
Email: michaelk@takomaparkmd.gov
City of Takoma Park Sustainability
Sustainability Initiatives of the City of Takoma Park
Social Justice Organizations
The following organizations have all identified themselves as having a social justice mission, in whole or in part. Please visit their websites and support them as they support us by making sure that community voices are heard!
Amnesty International Group 297
We are the Takoma Park/Silver Spring chapter of the world's largest human rights organization. We are working currently on behalf of prisoners in Burundi and Belarus, among other issues.
Contact us at:
Phone: 301-537-0814
Email: michaelneufeld1@starpower.net
Web: https://www.facebook.com/AmnestyTakomaParkSilverSpring/
The Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County
CRCMC works to create peace in the community by offering free conflict resolution tools like mediation to help manage and prevent conflicts. Together we better the community Peace by Peace!
Dining for Women
Dining for Women kicks gender injustice to the curb one country at a time! We e-meet with women on the front
lines of breaking chains & gender barriers to ensure women of color have power globally!
Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington (IFFP)
IFFP has three Tikkun Olam Groups: Environmental Working Group, Racial Justice Group, Immigration & Refugee Assistance Group (Tikkun Olam - a Jewish term meaning "repair the world").
Labor Heritage Foundation
We bring synergy, heart and soul to the labor movement, enhancing its
passion for equality, fair labor standards and practices, and a just society.
Contact us at:
Phone: 202-639-6204
Email: info@laborheritage.org
Web: https://www.laborheritage.org/our-mission/
Phone: 301-891-7622
Email: ginam@takomaparkmd.gov
Web: https://takomaparkmd.gov/government/sustainability/
City of Takoma Park Youth Council
Phone: 301-648-8031
Email: tkpkyouthcouncil@takomaparkmd.gov
Web: https://takomaparkmd.gov/government/boards-commissions-and-committees/takoma-park-youth-council/
Takoma Park Volunteer Fire Department
Phone: 240-773-8954
Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area
LSSNCA walks with those in need and mobilizes community partners to provide services that offer hope and rebuild lives through refugee resettlement & foster care.
Contact us at:
Web: https://lssnca.org/
Machar The Washington Congregation of Secular Humanistic Judaism
Tikkun Olam roughly translates to "repair of the world."
Machar’s Tikkun Olam efforts focus on both bigger-picture activism and policy advocacy as well as volunteer community service efforts.
Maryland Folklife Archives
The Maryland Folklife Archives at UMBC contain archived field research materials on traditional arts/cultures from Maryland-based communities, with whom the materials are collaboratively stewarded.
Contact us at:
Email: ryan.koons@maryland.gov
Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America - Montgomery County Local Group
Black Americans are disproportionately impacted by gun violence with 10 times the gun homicides
and 3 times the fatal police shootings of white Americans. Without justice, we cannot end gun violence.
Contact us at:
Email: mocolglmomsdemand@gmail.com
Web: https://everytownresearch.org/issues/gun-violence-black-americans/
Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition
Since 2010, MCCRC has been working on police accountability (as a founding member of SSJC), supporting immigrants' rights,
opposing Islamophobia, and bystander intervention training. Join us!
Contact us at:
Phone: 240-462-5973
Email: mococivilrights@gmail.com
Web: https://www.facebook.com/mococivilrights
Montgomery County Renters Alliance
The Renters Alliance is dedicated exclusively to advancing renters' rights, providing renter outreach, education, organizing and advocacy.
Right Care Alliance
The RCA is fighting for a health system in which health care is universal, affordable, effective, equitable, and just; patients are informed decision makers; and communities are empowered stewards.
Contact us at:
Email: organize@rightcarealliance.org
Web: https://rightcarealliance.org/about/
Shirat HaNefesh
Shirat HaNefesh, Song of the Soul: an eclectic Jewish congregation rooted in community, music, and social justice.
Priorities for the year include fighting racism and supporting affordable housing.
Contact us at:
Phone: 240-292-9450
Email: info@shirathanefesh.org
Web: https://shirathanefesh.org/act/
Small Things Matter
STM Kokua Foods fights inequalities in the food system based on race and socioeconomic status by providing food insecure families with access to healthy food options.
Takoma Park Community Band
Community musical group that performs concerts at local sites for events such as the TP July Fourth celebration, Black History month and the Fort Stevens commemoration.
Contact us at:
Phone: 301-585-5832
Email: TP_communityband@yahoo.com
Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School
If we believe nature is defined as pristine spaces, then we are supporting access to nature only for an elite population. Nature is everywhere. Children belong outside; it belongs to ALL children.
Contact us at:
Phone: 301-585-7272
Email: admissions@tpcns.org
Web: https://takomacooperativeschool.org/equity-in-nature
TPSS Co-op
TPSS Co-op promotes healthful living by offering wholesome foods, high-quality produce, and community resources in a clean, friendly, and cooperative grocery store…that you can own!
Washington Revels
Promoting racial and social justice by elevating diverse
voices in performance and conversation in our ongoing Daily Antidote of Song program and in our upcoming 2020 “Season of Reveling” this fall!
Contact us at:
Phone: 301-587-3835
Email: info@revelsdc.org
Web: https://revelsdc.org/2020/daily-song/