Recent Press
Winner for Best Documentary Short by the 2025 Women’s Voices Now Film Festival: Standing with Moms, directed by Radha Mehta. A short documentary about two Black mothers, one who seeks support in order to stay united with her 4 children, and the other who seeks justice for her among the many single Black mothers she’s supported through decades as an attorney.
- September 19, 2024 Guaranteed Income Rally (audio file) WAMU 88.5
- July 13, 2024 A D.C. School’s Experiment to Help Kids Learn: Paying Their Families. The Washington Post
- April 15, 2024 Guaranteed Income and the Case for a Solidarity & Care Economy. Medium
- April 10, 2024 Mothers accused of child neglect will get cash in D.C. poverty study. The Washington Post – Read the Mother’s Outreach Network related Press Release
- March 20, 2024 Attorney General Schwalb Announces 11 “Leaders of Tomorrow” Youth Violence Prevention Grant Awardees
- March 19, 2024 Leaders of the Future Spotlight: Melody Webb, Mothers Outreach Network – Uplifting the Power of Black Motherhood Through Guaranteed Income. Greater Washington Community Foundation
- March 5, 2024 Baby born at D.C. home in 2022 will finally get a birth certificate The Washington Post
- February 15, 2024 He was born at home in D.C. Now his parents have to prove he’s theirs. The Washington Post
- November 7, 2023 YouthToday Mississippi program shows how giving mothers guaranteed income helps children
- September 11, 2023 The Washington Informer Pilot Curfew Highlights Polarizing Debate About Parental Involvement
- August 15, 2023 The Root Are Direct Payments the Answer to Keeping Black Families Out of Foster Care?
- July 27, 2023 The Imprint Washington, D.C., Pilot Gives $500 Per Month to Black Mothers with CPS Cases
- July 19, 2023 Truthout Guaranteed Income Programs Are Uplifting Oppressed Communities Across the US
- July 18, 2023 Prism Guaranteed income programs aim to uplift Black mothers, trans people, and more
- June 26, 2023 Black Enterprise Black Moms Involved in Child Welfare System to Receive Basic Income Through Nonprofit Program
- June 13, 2023 Yahoo! Finance Greater Washington Community Foundation Announces Over $12.5M in Health Advocacy, Policy, and Systems Change Support
- April 17, 2023 dcist Some Face Homelessness When Leaving Foster Care, Despite D.C. Having Housing Vouchers to Help Them
- March 2, 2023 Ms. Magazine Welfare is *Still* a Woman’s Issue
- January 19 2023 The Imprint Impact of Direct Cash Benefits to Low-Income Families Can Be Far-Reaching
- November 14 2022 Catalog for Philanthropy Rest, Dream & Build: The Fight for Guaranteed Income in DC
- September 7 2022 Spark Point Melody Webb Advocates for the Economic Empowerment of Disadvantaged Black Mothers
- January 26 2022 Street Sense Media New cash assistance program for new parents will launch in February
- November 4 2021 Axios Washington DC D.C. orgs help families utilize child tax credit
- October 15 2021 The DC Line With pilot projects in place, backers look to mobilize support for a guaranteed income in DC
- October 13 2021 The Washington Informer Advocates Press for Information About Neglect Cases
- October 5 2021 The Click D.C. Residents March for Universal Basic Income
- September 27 2021 Teen Vogue Basic Income March 2021: Photos From Around the World
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