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Since October of 1998, mothertongue has been bringing women together each month at the Black Cat to provide an empowering forum for women writers, and to raise funds for organizations that improve the lives of women and girls in the metro DC area. Since 2000, mothertongue has donated over $20,000 to the following organizations:

African American Women's Resource Center

Ayuda, Inc. -Hermanas Unidas Project

Black Lesbian Support Group

Calvary Women's Services

Collective Lesbians of African-Descent Voices Everywhere (CLOAVE)

Community Bridges

Deaf Abused Women's Network (DAWN)

DC Abortion Fund

DC Lesbian Avengers

DC Rape Crisis Center

Dinner Program for Homeless Women

The Empower Program

Freestyle Union -Daughters of the Cipher

Hannah House

Heather Davis Memorial

HIPS (Helping Individual Porstitutes Survive)

House of Ruth

Inger Brink CD Project

Lady Fest DC

The Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer

Maryland Naral

Metro Teen AIDS - Where My Girls At?

My Sister's Place

N Street Village

New Endeavors

Ophelia's House

Our Place

Rachel's Women Center

Ramona's Way

Sistah Summerfest

SMYAL

TACTS

Tahirih Justice Center

The Last Colony, Rebecca Kingsley

The Woman's Collective

Three Roses Project

Washington Area Clinic Defense Task Force (WACDTF)

Weave (Women Escaping a Violent Environment)

Whitman Walker - Lesbian Services Program