A cooperative or “co-op” is a school, which is owned and run jointly by its members who share in the responsibilities and the benefits. By following the cooperative model, the cost of tuition is reduced by families helping out in the classroom and in administrative tasks around the school. Through play-based education, Aspen Hill Cooperative strives to prepare children to enter kindergarten with the foundational skills needed for academic achievement, as well as the social awareness and emotional skills needed to be compassionate, caring, inclusive and supportive friends and classmates.

Community FarmShare is building a connected, thriving local food system by increasing equitable access to nutritious local foods, supporting farm business sustainability, and improving the health of our local communities. FarmShare is where our neighbors experiencing food insecurity know where their next meal is coming from, and that it is of the highest, freshest, most nutritious quality. FarmShare is where our skilled vegetable and fruit farmers in Montgomery County earn what they deserve, to do what they do best: grow and sell nutritious, fresh produce to all eaters.

Just Neighbors is an organization dedicated to serving and supporting the immigrant community of Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. We foster mutual understanding between immigrants and the larger community in which they live. The organization provides high-quality immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, asylees and refugees in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia; and, builds community among clients, staff, volunteers and the larger society through education, advocacy, and volunteerism.

MCCH provides four solutions to ensuring that homelessness is a rare, brief and nonrecurring experience: 1-Emergency shelter to meet the needs of men and women currently experiencing homelessness; 2-Permanent supportive housing to help formerly homeless families and single adults remain stably housed; 3-Advocating for systemic change to create efficient and effective means of responding to homelessness in our community; 4-Expanding the supply of affordable housing to ensure that everyone in Montgomery County has a safe, stable and affordable place to call home.

Rockville Housing Foundation is a subsidiary of Rockville Housing Enterprises dedicated to raising money to fund resident-oriented initiatives. Programs that will be funded through the RHE Foundation include:

• Homeownership down payment assistance

• Rental Deposit down payment assistance

• Funding of resident activities across the RHE portfolio