Regent Park Community Center

The Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, also known as MHCDO, is a nonprofit community-based organization that has undertaken community development activities in the Ward 7 area of Washington, D.C., since 1979. MHCDO has developed on its own 60-unit supportive housing facility, a 469-unit garden-style apartment complex, 220,000 square feet of retail/office space, 20,000 square feet of warehouse/industrial space and more than 150 homes sold to low and moderate income buyers. MHCDO has more than 40 staff members and is governed by a 65-member broad-based community board of directors.

The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, located in Washington, D.C., is a professional society of the state and territory agency heads responsible for career technical education. Founded in 1920, NASDCTEc has a membership of more than 200 senior state staff and individuals that work to ensure quality career technical education at the secondary, postsecondary and adult levels. The association is governed by a board of directors comprising 16 members that include one associate member representative and four officers. NASDCTEc hosts two national meetings every year that provide information on legislation, research, and emerging issues important to career technical education. It maintains an active listing service system for state directors, and publishes a monthly electronic newsletter.