NEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN
Empowering women to achieve confidence, stability, and a place to call home.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
By partnering with homeless women, New Endeavors By Women creates new futures. We provide a nurturing environment so that women can recognize their worth. NEW transforms lives, by providing housing, fostering the development of life skills, and promoting education and employment, to end the cycle of homelessness.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
New Transitions
Our New Transitions program offers up to two years of group housing, utilizing a trauma-informed approach, to 24 homeless women who are overcoming challenges such as addiction and mental illness.
New Horizons
Provides private apartments and family-centered intensive services for an open-ended amount of time to 17 families, many of whom are recovering from domestic abuse.
New Hope
Provides shared apartments and health and wellness-centered services for an open-ended amount of time to 10 homeless women living with HIV/AIDS.
New Journeys
New Journeys offers permanent supportive housing and support in a dorm-style setting for six women aged 55 and older, most of whom have chronic illness and have been without stable housing for many years.
Rachael's House
Rachael’s House serves 17 women in apartments and a shared permanent, supportive home setting, supporting residents to reach employment and self-sufficiency goals.
Shelter Plus Care
Shelter Plus Care provides private apartments and highly individualized supportive services for an open-ended
amount of time to nine women who have a critical need for ongoing intensive case management and
support for chronic needs.
New Journeys II
New Journeys II offers apartment housing and focused supportive services to 15 senior women, many of whom have been chronically homelessness.
Where we work
External reviews
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
NEW wants to be part of the solution to ending homelessness in DC. We see each woman who comes through our door as an individual with her own lived story. Our goal is to help her feel whole again, herself again, so that she can get herself to a better place in her life.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Strategic Priorities
Strategic priorities focus and commit all stakeholders to a common direction and provide a framework for developing detailed, attainable, and measurable implementation places for the benefit of those we serve. By accomplishing these strategic priorities by June 30, 2023, we believe that NEW will be stronger and more sustainable.
1. Outreach: Increase awareness of NEW as a resource and advocate in the community.
2. Resource Generation: Broaden and diversify revenue streams to enable stability and long-term growth.
3. Program Management: Review leading practices and build upon our high-quality services to help ensure they meet the needs of those we serve.
4. Infrastructure: Review operating systems to support participants, staff and volunteers.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have 10 case workers at our six locations working with the residents, meeting with them regularly to help them meet their goals of independence and healthy living.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
With our individualized programming, we reach specific subsets of the homeless population and we are often honing our programs to address the needs of the time. Seeing that our elderly homeless population have few homes specific to them, NEW opened a second program for homeless women ages 58 plus.
We are a small enough organization that we can adjust our programming when and where we see fit, meeting the specific needs of the population.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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NEW ENDEAVORS BY WOMEN
Board of directorsas of 02/02/2024
Iris Drayton-Spann
Stanton Chase
Term: 2021 -
Kristen Grigorescu
Deloitte
Term: 2019 -
Wanda F. Steptoe
ED NEW
Jeff Hild
GW School of Public Health
Joe Eggleston
Brookfield Properties
Laura Itzkowitz
USAID
Allyson Jernagin
Pepco
Athena Katsampes
Latham & Watkins
Tahira Christmon
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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