Office Space Available At St. Stephen's Church

St. Stephen's Church seeks an organization to lease one 400-square-foot office. The office is located on the 3rd floor of our building and is not handicapped accessible. The office includes a sink, a bathroom, and an entry area. The office is available immediately.
 
The rate for space at St. Stephen's is approx. $25.75 per square foot per year. Included in this rate are utilities, basic cleaning, and security guards at the main door 60 hours per week. The rent for this office is $850 per month.
 
We seek organizations that fit our mission:
 
We believe that our building is one of God's greatest gifts to our church, given to us to use for the benefit of our parish, our neighbors, our city, and our world. Our aim is to have organizations in our building who meet the needs of our community in a way that is consistent with the vision of our parish. We wish to be in relationship with the space users in our building, developing mutually beneficial and cooperative ties. We desire to continue to improve the quality of our space, making it ever more inviting, functional, clean and life-giving.
 
We hope to see in our building a diverse group of space users: some large, stable, financially-sound organizations, and some smaller, start-up organizations. We hope that at any given time, organizations in our building will provide a wide range of services, possibly including youth programs, training, arts, spiritual development, and justice work.
 
These organizations currently have offices at St. Stephen�s:
 �  African Immigrants & Refugees Foundation enables new African and other immigrants and refugees to achieve a smooth transition to the American culture.
�  American Friends of Sudanese Lost Boys and Girls: is a new non-profit that provides support to the thousands of formerly Lost Boys and Lost Girls now in the United States. This is believed to be the first organization in this country to address their needs.
�  Brainfood uses food as a tool to build life skills with youth in a fun and creative setting. Through culinary-related activities, Brainfood strives to expand cognitive skills, encourage creativity, foster self-reliance and empower youth as resources in their own community.
�  CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) was formed in 1980 by US activists in order to support the revolution in El Salvador. CISPES channels direct financial support to projects that advance the strategic needs of the revolution and has sent more than 2,000 people on delegations to El Salvador.
�  Community Coalition for Justice and Peace:  Made up of over 90 DC organizations, the Community Coalition strives to focus attention in DC on basic issues of justice in our community, our nation, and our world.
�  Homeless Children�s Playtime Project nurtures healthy child development and reduces the effects of trauma among children living in emergency family shelters in the District of Columbia. It believes that play is a human right that all children deserve, regardless of housing status and seeks to help create a city that provides every opportunity for homeless children to succeed by advocating for affordable housing and safe shelters for all families.
�  Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, a network of immigrant community-based organizations located in the DC area, works to improve the quality of life in low-income communities, the promotion and protection of human, civil and political rights of workers, immigrants and their families, and to preserve cultural identity.
�  One Common Unity nurtures sustainable, caring communities by strengthening individuals and families through innovative peace education, arts, and media.
�  San Miguel School:  St. John's College High School has opened this middle school to serve economically disadvantaged Latino boys with a rigorous academic program while providing the supports they need to be successful.
�  STITCH is a network of U.S. women organizers, trainers and activists which supports and connects Central American and US women organizing for economic justice.
�  Young Women�s Drumming Empowerment Project seeks to empower a core group of young women living in the District by guiding them in a process of learning how to play African and Latin hand drums and percussion, along with expressing their opinions and telling their stories through spokenword, poetry, song, movement, and team building. 
�  Words, Beats and Life is an arts-based hip-hop non-profit organization.  WBL runs a Saturday Arts Academy and publishes the WB&L Journal. WBL believes that its unique blend of arts-based education, community service, edutainment events, and scholarly journal make it an important new member of the DC non-profit community.  

St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church was the first integrated Episcopal church in Washington. In the 1960s it was active in the civil rights, women's rights and anti-war movements, as well as many local concerns. In the early 1970s, St. Stephen's was at the forefront of efforts in the Episcopal Church to allow women to be ordained as priests. In 1974, a woman priest celebrated the eucharist at our altar during the main Sunday service, the first time a woman priest celebrated the eucharist in a public service in an Episcopal church in the United States. In 1968 St. Stephen's began its hot meal program, Loaves and Fishes. Ever since, it has served hot lunches on weekends to people in need of food, today serving an average of 300 meals every Saturday and Sunday. In the early 1980s St. Stephen's formed the Samaritan Ministry, now a city-wide social service organization supported by dozens of churches. In 2006, St. Stephen's began a Latino ministry; the Eucharist is now celebrated in Spanish every Sunday at 5pm.

For more information about our available office space, please contact Brian Best (202-232-0900, mailbox 7 if no one answers, or staff@saintstephensdc.org).