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Main Address
SOME
71 ‘O’ Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.797.8806
202.265.3849 (fax)

Media Contact
Tracy Monson
202.797.8806 ext. 1011
tmonson@some.org

SOME (So Others Might Eat) is an interfaith, community-based organization that serves the homeless and destitute in the District of Columbia. SOME meets the immediate needs of poor and homeless men, women and children with food, clothing and health care and provides programs that address the root causes of homelessness and poverty through job training, addiction treatment, counseling and other support services.

SOME helps clients to maintain long-term stability through the provision of safe, supportive-service affordable housing, and currently operates more than 250 units for single adults and 43 units for families. More than 300 additional affordable units are in the pipeline as part of SOME’s Affordable Housing Development Initiative. Through the Initiative, and with the leadership of William E. Conway, Jr., Co-founder and Managing Partner of the Carlyle Group, SOME aims to create 1,000 new units of affordable housing for more than 2,000 of the District’s homeless and poor.

Homelessness and Poverty in the District

Fact: Today, nearly 9,700 people – one-third of them in families - in the District of Columbia are homeless.

Fact: More than one in five District children suffer from hunger or risk of hunger.

Fact: Nearly one in three DC residents is low-income.

Fact: The gap between the rich and the poor is greater here than almost anywhere else in the country.

Learn more about homelessness and poverty in the District in SOME's Advocacy Resource Library.

By the Numbers

In 2009, SOME provided:

288,390 meals for hungry children, women, and men in our Dining Room for the Homeless
13,215 medical and dental care visits to homeless people who could not afford a doctor or dentist
17,525 showers and free clothing for homeless men and women
546 homeless children, women and men with safe permanent and long-term housing
103 homeless and low-income women and men with intensive job training at SOME's Center for Employment Training

View a one-page overview of SOME's services (pdf, 27 KB)

View SOME’s Annual Report (pdf, 2.45 MB)

View SOME’s financial statements

View SOME's Board of Directors and SOME's Corporate Advisory Board