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The Annual Awards Dinner, held each summer, is WITA’s capstone event. The Dinner attracts hundreds of top decision makers, policy shapers, and trade experts from D.C. and around the world. The Dinner provides an excellent opportunity for members to connect with other trade professionals, business leaders, and dignitaries in a celebratory setting. Organized by WITA’s sister organization, the 501(c)(3) Washington International Trade Foundation (WITF), the Awards Dinner is the biggest trade event of the year in Washington, DC. The event is a fundraiser to support WITA’s trade education activities throughout the year.

Great Streets is the District’s multi-year multi-agency commercial revitalization initiative to support existing small businesses, attract new businesses, increase the District’s tax base, create new job opportunities for the District residents, and transform emerging corridors into thriving and inviting neighborhood centers that are magnets for private investment. Since it began in 2006, Great Streets has grown into a multi-year, multi-agency program that utilizes public actions and resources to leverage private investment in retail, office space, housing, and cultural facilities across the District. DMPED fosters economic development on the Great Streets corridors by investing in small business development via the Great Streets Retail Small Business Reimbursement Grants, which are competitive grants of up to $50,000 for qualified small business owners who wish to improve their place of business.

Our weekly farmer’s market, Capital Harvest on the Plaza (CHoP) features plenty of farm-fresh edibles and artisanal novelties. CHoP’s mission is to foster a strong sense of community, stimulate economic development, and improve the quality of life for market-goers by providing local, sustainably sourced food and products. CHoP is sponsored by TCMA (A Drew Company), the exclusive manager of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Be sure to stop by our information booth and stock up on recipes and tips for maintaining a healthy and socially responsible lifestyle.

Open Fridays, spring through fall, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on Woodrow Wilson Plaza at the corner of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

The market is accessible via metro by either the Federal Triangle (blue/orange/silver lines) or Metro Center (red/blue/orange/silver lines). Parking is available onsite in the Reagan Building’s underground parking garage.

The U.S.Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Norway (Norad), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada (funded by the Government of Canada), the U.K Department for International Development (DFID), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) warmly invite you to the 8th annual DevelopmentXChange event for Saving Lives at Birth:A Grand Challenge  for Development. The event brings together our current innovators, as well as  promising candidates for the Round 8 awards.

• Watch entrepreneurs, implementers, and pioneers show how they are pushing the boundaries of innovation during our live Pitch Competition.
• Explore the open Marketplace and learn about some of today’s most cutting-edge technologies and interventions improving maternal and newborn health, from competing finalists and current grantees.
• Network with experts, partners, current Saving Lives at Birth grantees, and the Saving Lives at Birth Round 8 finalists during thereception.

Our weekly farmer’s market, Capital Harvest on the Plaza (CHoP) features plenty of farm-fresh edibles and artisanal novelties. CHoP’s mission is to foster a strong sense of community, stimulate economic development, and improve the quality of life for market-goers by providing local, sustainably sourced food and products. CHoP is sponsored by TCMA (A Drew Company), the exclusive manager of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Be sure to stop by our information booth and stock up on recipes and tips for maintaining a healthy and socially responsible lifestyle.

Open Fridays, spring through fall, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. on Woodrow Wilson Plaza at the corner of 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.

The market is accessible via metro by either the Federal Triangle (blue/orange/silver lines) or Metro Center (red/blue/orange/silver lines). Parking is available onsite in the Reagan Building’s underground parking garage.