Bates Area Civic Association

We do everything locally these days. That restaurant down the street? Everything they cook comes from within 100 miles of D.C. The beer on tap at your favorite bar? It’s brewed in town. Those onesies you’re buying as a gift for your friends who just had a baby? It was stitched in your ward, obviously.

And this week, as your thoughts drift toward overeating, avoiding the Black Friday crowds, and—oh yeah—the spirit of gratitude and thankfulness that’s supposed to mark Thanksgiving, you can keep that localist impulse going.

For the fourth year in a row, Washington City Paper has partnered with the Catalogue for Philanthropy: Greater Washington to produce our Give It Up, D.C. guide to charitable giving. As always, the Catalogue has vetted scores of area nonprofits to select those that make up this list. The ones they feature get chosen for how efficiently they use their resources, how creative their missions are, and how effectively they help their cause. Each one chosen has a budget of under $3 million; all of them could use your support.

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