On this #GivingTuesday, we’d like to say a special THANK YOU to Petula Dvorak, a columnist at The Washington Pos, for this wonderful article about supporting three specific organizations to support.

Like many nonprofits, we had multiple messages about this multi-billion-dollar day for giving, but not all nonprofits get a boost from a columnist at the Washington Post.

See below excerpts from a column by Petula Dvorak in which she educates readers about Whitman-Walker’s amazing legal services team and encourages them to give to us.

EXCERPT:

“The LGBTQ community

The targeting of transgender Americans was one of the cornerstones of Trump’s campaign. From the “they/them” jokes in Trump’s speeches to the fight over which bathrooms our nation’s first openly trans member of Congress can use, the LGBTQ community is facing a new wave of discrimination and rancor.

Whitman-Walker Legal Services gives a list of all the times that LGBTQ Americans are challenged for moving through the world as their true selves.
 
Whether it’s marriage, medical care, employment or elder care, our rigid legal system is a challenge. And it’s going to get worse.
 
The Whitman-Walker clinic was founded in 1978 as one of the first responders to the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic in D.C. Over nearly 50 years, they’ve expanded their scope and mission.
 
This is the paragraph that tells us the most:
“We can help with health insurance appeals, work disputes, discrimination, Social Security disability applications and appeals, public benefits appeals (ADAP, Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP/Food Stamps), immigration matters, powers of attorney and wills, elder issues, medical privacy, and identity documents for trans and gender expansive clients, among other problems.”

It’s their free legal services that may be the most crucial in the coming Trump administration. Donations to the Whitman-Walker Foundation will be important and impactful immediately.”

Read the full article here: https://wapo.st/4iteODM