The DC Paid Family Leave Coalition ran the legislative campaign to pass, protect, implement, and expand paid family and medical leave for DC working families. If you have questions about the coalition’s current work, please contact Yael Shafritz at Jews United for Justice (yael.shafritz@jufj.org), who is running the coalition as of this writing in 2023. If you are a reporter seeking comment, please contact Sam Baltimore at Jews United for Justice (sam@jufj.org), who is the coalition’s communications staffer as of this writing in 2023.

Coalition Letter in Support of Paid Family Medical Leave Insurance for Washington, D.C.

Dear Members of the DC Council and Mayor Bowser:

On behalf of the undersigned organizations, representing a diverse coalition of local businesses, community institutions, service providers, and advocacy organizations, we urge you to establish a paid family and medical leave insurance program for everyone living or working in the District. No one should be forced to make impossible choices between caring for the people they love and keeping the jobs and income they need to make ends meet. Paid leave policies strengthen businesses and the workforce, improve community health, and are urgently needed by DC’s working families. We are counting on your leadership!

To read the rest of the coalition sign-on letter prepared during the legislative fight for paid family leave (2015-2017), click here!


Organizations & Businesses who Signed Coalition Letter:

Local DC Businesses

  • 5th Street Ace Hardware

  • 76 Words

  • Adams Morgan Ace Hardware

  • AGH Strategies

  • Allen Custom Frame

  • Amalgamated Bank

  • Ampersand Strategies

  • Anacostia River Realty

  • Angelico La Pizzeria

  • Annie's Ace Hardware

  • Art-drenaline 365 Café

  • Bacio Pizzeria

  • Ben Droz Photography

  • The Big Bad Woof

  • Big Bear Cafe

  • Bright Start Earlycare & Preschool

  • Bulldog Finance Group

  • Busboys and Poets

  • Capitol Hill Stay

  • Cavanaugh Hagan Pierson & Mintz

  • Cherry Blossom Creative

  • Colony Club

  • Comet Ping Pong

  • Democracy Partners

  • The Duke and the Duck Productions, LLC

  • Dupont Circle Communications

  • Each Peach Market

  • ECORE Living

  • Eighty2degrees LLC

  • Emily Goodstein Photography

  • The English Teacher Collective

  • Fare Well

  • Flamboyan Foundation

  • Fox Loves Taco

  • Freed Bodyworks

  • Friendly Design Co.

  • GBA Strategies

  • G III Associates

  • Glover Park Ace Hardware

  • Holly Shulman Public Relations

  • Howl to the Chief

  • Intimate Health Consulting

  • James & Hoffman

  • Jubilee JumpStart

  • Lake Research Partners, Inc.

  • Les Talusan Photography

  • Lighthouse Yoga Center

  • Little Pearl

  • Little Red Fox

  • Logan Ace Hardware

  • Mama's Kitchen

  • Mary C Donahue, LICSW

  • Megaphone Strategies

  • Miss Pixie's

  • Movement Matters

  • Nelson LLC

  • New Columbia Distillers

  • New Heights Communications

  • The New Media Firm

  • Ochstein Strategies

  • Parlour Salon

  • Patagonia (Georgetown Store)

  • Petworthy Dogs

  • Pineapple and Pearl

  • Pleasant Pops

  • Politics and Prose

  • Red Tree Strategy

  • Rose's Luxury

  • Scarlet Oak Acupuncture

  • Solimar International Inc.

  • Sound of Everything

  • Spiggle Law Firm (DC office)

  • Springboard Partners LLC

  • Sticky Fingers Sweets and Eats

  • Tanenholz & Associates, PLLC

  • TCG, Inc.

  • Tenleytown Ace Hardware

  • Timber Pizza Co.

  • Transformational Acupuncture

  • Treasure Trove Jewelers

  • Union Kitchen

  • Union Kitchen Grocery

  • Uprise: Communications Consulting for Good Guys

  • Well-Paid Maids

  • Woodley Park Ace Hardware

  • Yoga Heights

  • Zeke's Coffee

  • Zenful Bites

Local Non-Profit Community Institutions

  • 9to5, National Association of Working Women: DC Action Team

  • AllEyesOnDC

  • Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1764

  • Chesapeake Climate Action Network

  • Children's Law Center

  • Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), DC Metro Chapter

  • Collective Action for Safe Spaces

  • Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 2336

  • Covenant Baptist UCC

  • DC AARP

  • DC Action for Children

  • DC Appleseed

  • DC Area Transmasculine Society

  • The DC Center for the LGBT Community

  • DC Chapter of the National Organization for Women

  • DC Employment Justice Center

  • DC Fair Budget Coalition

  • DC Fiscal Policy Institute

  • DC for Democracy

  • DC Jobs with Justice

  • DC Nurses Association

  • DC Tenants' Rights Center

  • DC Working Families

  • District of Columbia Breastfeeding Coalition

  • District of Columbia Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (DC AAP)

  • Dumbarton United Methodist Church

  • Emmaus Services for the Aging

  • Empower DC

  • Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center

  • The Future Foundation

  • Hyacinth's Place

  • ICNA Council for Social Justice

  • Interfaith Power & Light (MD.DC.NoVA)

  • Iona Senior Services

  • Jews United for Justice

  • Lamaze International - DC Chapter

  • Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

  • LiUNA! Laborers' Local 11

  • Many Languages One Voice

  • Mary's Center

  • Metro DC PFLAG

  • Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO

  • Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association (MWPHA)

  • Miriam's Kitchen

  • National Lawyers Guild, Labor & Employment Committee, D.C. Chapter

  • ONE DC (Organizing Neighborhood Equity)

  • Petworth News

  • The Potter's House

  • Rainbow Families DC

  • Restaurant Opportunity Center (ROC) DC

  • Roosevelt Institute @ GW

  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 32BJ

  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500

  • Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

  • Southeast Ministry

  • Temple Micah

  • United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400

  • Washington Ethical Society

  • Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

  • Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless

  • Washington Peace Center

  • Washington Teachers' Union

  • We Act Radio

  • Women's Information Network (WIN)

  • YWCA National Capital Area

National Non-Profits with DC Offices Supporting the Legislation as DC Employers

  • Advocates for Youth

  • American Association of University Women

  • American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO

  • American Friends Service Committee - DC

  • American Jewish World Service: Washington, DC Office

  • American Sustainable Business Council

  • Americans for Tax Fairness

  • Black Women's Health Imperative

  • Caring Across Generations

  • Center for Community Change

  • Center for International Policy

  • Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)

  • Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)

  • Coalition on Human Needs

  • Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare

  • DC Vote

  • Development Seed

  • Family Equality Council

  • Family Values @ Work

  • Family Values @ Work LGBT Equality Project

  • Financial Transparency Coalition

  • First Shift Justice Project

  • Forward Together

  • Good Jobs First

  • Human Rights Campaign

  • Just Foreign Policy

  • MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

  • Methodist Federation for Social Action

  • MomsRising.org

  • NARAL Pro Choice America

  • National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum

  • National Center for Lesbian Rights

  • National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Black Women's Roundtable

  • National Council of Jewish Women

  • National Domestic Workers Alliance

  • National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

  • National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund

  • National Network of Abortion Funds

  • National Partnership for Women & Families

  • National WIC Association

  • National Women's Law Center

  • New America

  • OWL Network - Organizing Women to Lead

  • Physicians for Reproductive Health

  • Progressive Congress Action Fund

  • Promundo-US

  • Reproductive Health Technologies Project

  • Sierra Club

  • Social Security Works

  • Sojourners

  • The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

  • URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity

  • USAction

  • Worker Rights Consortium

  • Working America

  • Young Invincibles