Recent Press
Community Insite Podcast: How Cash Assistance with No Strings Attached Can Prevent Foster Care with Melody Webb – 2/26/26
Is direct cash assistance with no strings attached a prevention approach that avoids deeper system involvement, or does it raise difficult questions about responsibility and accountability? Valerie and Melody explore the ideas, assumptions, and tradeoffs behind prevention models built on direct support for families.
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.
- May 14, 2026, Targeted or Neglected?: The High Separation of Ward 8 Families. Howard University News Service
- Summer 2025, These Mothers are Our Neighbors. Family Justice Journal
- 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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