FY27 DHS Budget Cuts
The Foundation’s Executive Director urges DC Council to restore the youth homeless services budget to at least $24 million in recurring funding, including restoring $1.53 million for permanent supportive (extended transitional) housing and $755,000 for transitional housing.
Testimony On Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ+ Affairs
Wanda Alston Foundation Executive Director Cesar Toledo testifying at the Public Works and Operations Budget Oversight Hearing.
Cesar Toledo Testifies for LGBTQ+ Youth
Cesar Toledo, the Executive Director for the Wanda Alston Foundation, testified before the Committee on Human Services in support of transitional housing for homeless LGBTQ+ youth.
Bowser calls for ‘extraordinary’ response to reduction in D.C. budget
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on April 15 issued an executive order calling for “extraordinary actions,” including “significant cuts in District Government services,” to address a decision by Congress to cut the city’s current budget by $1.1 billion.
Also receiving city funding are the Wanda Alston Foundation, which provides housing services for LGBTQ people; and the LGBTQ youth advocacy and services organization SMYAL.
House vote to cut $1 billion from D.C. budget threatens LGBTQ services
Among the D.C. organizations providing services to the LGBTQ community that could lose funding if the D.C. budget cut is approved by the Senate are the Wanda Alston Foundation and SMYAL, which provide housing and other services for LGBTQ youth.
DC LGBTQ Budget Coalition urges city to boost funding for queer programs
Among the LGBTQ and LGBTQ supportive organizations that are members of the D.C. LGBTQ Budget Coalition are Capital Pride Alliance, the D.C. Center for the LGBT Community, Capital Stonewall Democrats, the Wanda Alston Foundation, the LGBTQ youth advocacy group SMYAL, the sex worker advocacy group HIPS, the Washington AIDS Partnership, Us Helping Us, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA), the ANC Rainbow Caucus, Damien Ministries, and the Latin American Youth Center.