Awards

Since DASH was founded in 2006, we have been recognized and awarded for our innovative approach to safe housing for survivors, including:

• DASH is honored with four Purple Ribbon Awards from DomesticShelters.org, September 2022.
• Excellence in Chief Executive Leadership Award, Center for Nonprofit Advancement, November 2021.
• Congresswoman Norton selects DASH among 15 Community Project Funding awards in FY 2022, press release.
• The Leadership Greater Washington Community Partner of the Year Award presented by the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 2021
• DASH featured as an innovator doing important work in FreeFrom’s, “Making Safety Affordable – Intimate Partner Violence is an Asset-Building Issue“.
• Executive Director, Koube Ngaaje, receives NBC4 “Working for the Community” Honoree Award during Black History Month, 2020
• DASH selected as a Lyft Community Grant Winner, 2019
• “One of the Best NonProfits in Greater DC” award from the Catalogue for Philanthropy,  2019
• DASH Among First to Receive Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Grant, 2018
• Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women award to launch the National Alliance for Safe Housing (NASH), 2016;
• Honorable Mention Recipient of the 2015 EXCEL Award from the Center for Nonprofit Advancement;
• One of the region’s best small charities in the 2015-2016 Catalogue for Philanthropy Greater Washington;
• Ad 2 DC’s Public Service Award in 2015;
• One of four national awardees of the Mary Bryon Project’s Celebrating Solutions Award for 2014;
• Receiving the Outstanding Corporate/Nonprofit Partner Serving Women with The MassMutual Citizenship Award from the Washington Business Journal in 2013;
• A “share your story” video recipient from the Giving Library in 2014; and
• One of the region’s best small charities in the 2011-2012 Catalogue for Philanthropy Greater Washington.

Media

For media requests, please send an email to info@dashdc.org.

2021

• DASH Welcomes the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Rosie Hildalgo, Senior Advisor on Gender-Based Violence and Special Assistant to the President, White House Gender Policy Council for a site visit of its Cornerstone safe housing program.

2020

• Washington Post Interview – “Domestic violence will increase during coronavirus quarantines and stay-at-home orders, experts warn”, March 2020
• Executive Director, Koube Ngaaje, receives NBC4 “Working for the Community” Honoree Award during Black History Month, 2020

2019

• DASH’s Executive Director, Koube Ngaaje, featured on News4 Your Sunday program with Pat Muse for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (at 16:00)

2018

• “There’s no ‘typical survivor’, and other facts to know about domestic violence”, feature in WTOP, October 2018
• Interview on iHeart Radio with Host Bernie Lucas to discuss Domestic Violence Awareness Month, October 2018
• DASH’s national project, NASH, releases National Safe Housing Needs Assessment, August 2018
• Q&A Interview with OnTap Magazine, July 2018
• “How Some Shelter Rules Designed to Keep Domestic Violence Survivors Safe Can Harm Them“, DCist, June 2018
• “Need to leave, nowhere to go: Local org gives new life to survivors of abuse, interview in WTOP, June 2018
• “Safe Housing for Domestic Violence Survivors is More Than Shelter“, Urban Institute, How Housing Matters Blog, June 2018

2017

• Nonprofit Executive Profile of DASH’s Executive Director, Washington Business Journal
• A New Wellness Garden is Unveiled at DASH’s Cornerstone residence thanks to AvalonBay Communities, Studio39, and Ashton Manor Environmental; Press Release
• DASH’s Deputy Director of Programs receives “Community Champion” award from the Washington Mystics and Capital One
• DASH Announces New Executive Director, Washington Business Journal 
• Real Housewives of Potomac Star Charrisse Jackson Jordan Gives Back to DASH, WUSA9

2016

• “Education, Language and Culture Can Be Roadblocks for Domestic Violence Victims“, segment by Erika Gonzalez at NBC4
• “DC Organization Addresses Shortage of Housing for Survivors of Domestic Violence“, segment by Aaron Gilchrist at NBC4
• The Hill blog feature: “Cash is still king when it comes to keeping domestic violence survivors in their homes” by Peg Hacskaylo, DASH Executive Director
• The Huffington Post blog: “Safe Housing Is More Than Just a There There” by Peg Hacskaylo, DASH Executive Director

2015

• Difference Maker feature in The Christian Science Monitor
• The 5th Allies in Change Award Reception, Comcast Newsmakers
• #WhatitTakesDC, Ad 2 DC

2014

• Domestic Violence: America’s Hidden Epidemic, This Week with George Stephanopoulos
• The Holiday Spike in Domestic Violence, The Atlantic
• 7 Questions with Peg Hacskaylo, Greater Washington Catalogue for Philanthropy
• The Devil is in the District, HuffingtonPost by DASH Executive Director Peg Hacskaylo:

2013

• Turning Inside Outcomes, HuffingtonPost by DASH Exectuve Director Peg Hacskaylo
• Kabul Cough, HuffingtonPost by DASH Exectuve Director Peg Hacskaylo