The Evolver Social Movement’s mission is to create the scaffolding for an international consciousness network based on cooperation, environmental stewardship, joy, creativity and play. We enlist a permaculture approach to this social art sculpture, believing our local communities know what’s best for them. The Washington, D.C. Evolver Spore is providing a forum for people to interact on a face-to-face level to raise awareness and empower our local community in this extraordinary time. Ever-consc …

Young Professionals Amnesty International (YPAI) engages and supports Amnesty activists from diverse backgrounds entering the workplace. YPAI provides Amnesty and other human rights activists a space to network, organize, and contribute to the struggle for human rights in the U.S. and abroad. YPAI is structured around a monthly event that combines social and action-oriented activities focused on addressing human rights issues like Human Rights Happy Hours, Trivia Nights, Speed Networking events, …

OUR PROFILE We are a community group of purpose, goals, and action. We seek to combat modern slavery, which is the economic exploitation of individuals through the use of violence and coercion, and human trafficking, which is the modern-day slave trade. Come join us and explore how you can take part! OUR VISION A world without slavery. OUR MISSION To end slavery forever by leveraging the power of the community to - Create a forum for education, engagement, and action - Foster grassroots moveme …

Muslims for Progressive Values - DC was founded in 2004 as Washington DC Progressive Muslim Meetup to provide a place for Progressive Muslims and their friends to meet and discuss Islam from a liberal perspective. While a variety of definitions of "progressive Islam" can be found, this group is guided by the words of Professor Omid Safi: "Progressive Islam encompasses a number of themes: striving to realize a just and pluralistic society through a critical engagement with Islam, a relentless pu …

The group will work to identify issues related to human trafficking in Maryland along with State government officials and other local groups to eradicate this blight in our community. Interested persons should consider joining.

The Global Women's Network meetup is meant as a real-world counterpart to the virtual Global Women's Network wiki (www.global-womens-network.org) which strives to be the largest collaborative information source on women's and girls' organizations and initiatives around the world. This meetup will bring us together to discuss issues affecting women and girls at the local, national, and global level. Each monthly meetup will feature a speaker or panel of speakers representing organizations tha …

The Washington Buddhist Peace Fellowship is a network of Buddhist sanghas and like-minded individuals in the Washington D.C. metro area who are committed to creating a peaceful world by peaceful means, through mindful engagement with the world to reduce social injustice. More about WBPF. Please also visit  our website WBPF.org. Our email list is on YahooGroups

Let's enjoy all things animal friendly! We will be having vegan potlucks at members homes, food demonstrations, picnics and attend cruelty free events. For vegans, vegetarians, or vegan-friendly.

Your dream is the difference you want to make before you die. Bobb Biehl OUR PURPOSES: To equip and empower every Christian to fulfill the calling that God has laid on their heart. To put ministry in the hands of Christians by turning institutional bottlenecks into community fountains. HOW IT WORKS: Educate, Mentor & Connect Educate Christians in the basic principles of ministry startup on an open source WIKI http://fe.fairfaxcirclechurch.org Mentoring through this Meetup to manage online …

Purpose of Chesapeake Permaculture Institute: Facilitate networking and collaboration within the permaculture community in our region (Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay Watershed). Help publicize permaculture events & courses. Facilitate opportunities for face to face community building/gatherings/meetings. Identify our niches/unique contribution from each partnering group. Offer advanced topic specific courses such as forest gardening, natural building, water irrigation, food production, transfo …

We meet in a downtown church with a labyrinth for 30 minutes of comtemplative prayer. Then we go to a pub across the street for meaningful conversation among friends about faith and life issues. All are welcome, wherever you are in your spiritual journey, whatever your beliefs, practices, and questions might be.

Organize biking, walking, and/or boat ride tours of successful environmental projects in one or more of the many municipalities from Cooperstown, NY all the way down to Virginia Beach. Can include service activities for participants (may also include music, edu-tainment play, 'eating green' food, clean transportation SAG vehicles and an Intergenerational Town Hall Meeting) designed to expand environmental awareness, inextricably linked to health and well being, and measure citizen's habits and …

Amnesty International USA Washington, DC Chapter supports Amnesty International USA's vision of a world in which every person enjoys the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments. We organize events? such as concerts, protests and vigils? that raise awareness of human rights violations and inform the public about what can be done to oppose these violations. We also advocate on behalf of prisoners of conscience and other victims …

The AKOBEN Foundation is holding a meetup group to rally together community citizens who are passionate about the revitalization of Baltimore's urban communities. Attendees will have an opportunity to sign up as youth mentors, parent educators and more!

This is a volunteer-run group for those interested in supporting child development projects mainly in Uganda. Christalis includes a tuition assistance program, a meal program and an orphanage. There is also an annual holiday gift-giving program in the Baltimore/D.C. area called Lilly's Gifts.

Welcome to the Meetup group for the activities of the C&O Canal Association.  We sponsor hikes, canoe trips and bike rides along the 184-mile-long towpath between Georgetown and Cumberland. Our events are open to the public. C&O Canal Association is an all-volunteer citizens organization established in 1954 to help conserve of the natural and historical environment of the C&O Canal and the Potomac River Basin.  The association works with the National Park Service in its efforts to preserve and p …

Welcome to the F-I-T Zone! F-I-T Now LLC - where F-I-T stands for "Focus Is Transformational - Change your Focus and Change Happens"(TM)!!! We offer dance fitness, total body transformation as well as Spiritual Coaching and Workshops - we focus on your body, mind and spirit. Come join us at one of our many locations in Maryland for our regularly scheduled classes. Our classes give you a total body workout  - you will dance to the hottest Latin and International rhythms. You will tone muscles,  b …

Like that old, soulful U2 rock anthem, do you sometimes find yourself singing "I still haven't found what I'm looking for," and somehow the song's sentiment connects with your spiritual journey?  Perhaps you feel emotionally distant from the Christian spirituality and Sunday worship you grew up with.  Curious to find out why you’re having these feelings/thoughts/disconnect?  But more importantly, curious if there is a better way to think about, experiment with, and practice faith in the 21st Cen …

Interested in casual, weekday evening conversations (and hearing interesting speakers) to explore questions and doubts related to Christian faith and finding meaning in life? If yes, then grab a beer and join us! DC Theology Pub is an experimental conversation designed to foster fresh new perspectives on--and questions regarding--Christian spirituality in the 21st Century: it is part discussion group and part speaker series. Recently we have started to focus on book discussions on science and fa …

Ever wondered where to start when it comes to comic books? Read Y: The Last Man and want  to O__o over the series with another fan? Aching to go see the new superhero movie with peeps who'll understand your cheers and boos? All your friends telling you to read Sandman and you're ready to take the leap? Got comic books/trades to swap/borrow/lend? Want to go halfsies on the latest X-men Fan film on kickstarter? Welcome one and all to DC's most inclusive comic book clubhouse. Stop by to shoot the …

Are you between the ages of 18 and 35 and looking for a welcoming community of young adults in the Bethesda area? Are you interested in exploring your spirituality, meeting like-minded people, and becoming active in great causes? We're starting a Young Adult group at the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Bethesda, MD. We'd love for you to join us! RRUUC is a welcoming community with a strong congregation. If you are asking yourself: What is UU? Am *I* a UU? We believe that person …

The Chamber of Progress is dedicated to education, public outreach, and social action. Businesses have their Chambers of Commerce, associations which help them coordinate pro-corporate messages and actions. The Chamber of Progress advances human needs which do not have a commercial value, but which are priceless. Founded in 2010, the Chamber of Progress empowers concerned Americans working together on common solutions to common challenges. We’re expanding opportunity by promoting involvement, un …

We meet weekly on Mondays to explore the meaning of, and need for, liberty, equality, freedom, and justice for all in matters of religion, government, commerce, and society. The basic premise of our explorations is that the experiences and pleasures of the erotic are the proper foundation of human motivation and accomplishment of personal growth and vital maturity. Stated simply, Sex is sacred, always has been, always will be, because it is the time of our most intimate personal communion with L …