Community Projects

Over the years, the RWLC has united numerous businesses, neighborhood groups and District of Columbia government agencies to improve athletic and recreational facilities for city residents.  Many of its earliest community projects were conducted in Wards 7 and 8, where the RWLC:

  • Enabled the Bald Eagle Recreation Center to install a new dance studio and breakaway basketball rims, and secure new table tennis and boxing equipment;
  • Supported roof repairs, energy conversation measures, and pool renovations at Fort Stanton Recreation Center; and
  • Revitalized Benning Park Recreation Center by refurbishing the boxing gym, adding new exercise equipment, sprucing up a child-care center and installing new computers in the homework center.  Outside, the center’s amphitheater was rebuilt, the baseball field cleaned and reseeded, and new security lighting installed.

Other neighborhoods have benefited as well.  Among them, the RWLC:

  • Helped fund a new playground and basketball court in Ward 6 for children and teens living in Capitol Hill’s Potomac Gardens, a public housing apartment complex;
  • Donated playground equipment for the Chevy Chase Recreation Center
  • Supported community efforts to refurbish the Macomb Street Park playground, located in Ward 3’s Cleveland Park; and
  • Purchased three 15-passenger vans for the Department of Parks and Recreation to transport city residents to parks and recreational activities.
Partners in these community efforts have included the District’s Department of Parks and Recreation and Housing Authority, as well as many companies, foundations, associations and other organizations—including the Apartment and Office Building Association; A. Scott Bolden, ReedSmith LLP; Browning-Ferris Industries; Chevy Chase Bank; the Cleveland Park Historical Society; Leo A. Daly; D.C. Service Corps; Gilford Corporation; the Philip L. Graham Fund; Jair Lynch; Mahogany Entertainment; Hansel Phelps; William McSweeny; Quality Maintenance Inc.; Pauline A. Schneider, Esq.; Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates; and WPGC-95.5 FM.  Individuals have also made significant contributions, including former world heavyweight boxing champion Riddick Bowe, who donated $30,000 of boxing gear to city recreational centers.