Carol Fennelly, a long-time activist, is director of Hope House. For 17 years she lived and worked at the homeless shelters operated by the Community for Creative Non-Violence. In that capacity she was responsible for the creation of numerous programs within the organization, including a drop-in center for homeless people, a medical infirmary for 30 homeless men, and recruitment and overall coordination of 7 separate organizations which provided services in the Federal City Shelter. She is the architect of the Districts "cooling centers" which provide cool places for indigent people during extremely hot weather. She is founder and president of the Trust for Affordable Housing which built over 350 units of Single Room Occupancy Housing for single homeless people in the Washington, D.C. Along with Mitch Snyder she designed campaigns which won voting rights for homeless people; won passage of the Stewart B. McKinney bill; won passage of the D.C. Right to Overnight Shelter Act; organized the Housing Now! March in 1989; and acquired the old Federal City College along with renovation funds to create a model shelter in Washington. She founded Hope House (see http://www.hopehousedc.org/about/about-us.htm).
From the description of Carol Fennelly papers, 1971-1997, bulk 1980-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86115697
