Advocacy — including consciousness raising about the need for clean, safe public restrooms; and educating the public on why they are needed has kept us — has kept us very busy. Since launching in late 2014 we have: carried out and shared 3 research studies (one updated three years in a row); prepared and delivered over 70 presentations tailored to different audiences; organized/delivered over 60 testimonies at DC Council Hearings; been the subject of and, in several cases drafted, 20 news media articles; and received endorsements from 40 organizations.
More information on each can be found below.
Our Research
Under the firm belief that a research-based approach is the most effective way to educate the public on the need for more clean, safe public restrooms and the options that are available, PFFC’s Downtown DC Public Restroom Initiative carried out four studies: A feasibility study to determine the advisability of PFFC’s launching this Initiative, carried […]
Presentations
Since 2015, members of PFFC’s Downtown DC Public Restroom Initiative, with the support of their Advisors, have prepared and delivered more than 70 presentations. Audiences include DC Council Members and their staffs; Directors of DC Government Agencies and their staffs; ANCs in all 8 DC Wards; members of churches, organizations representing DC residents, and organizations […]
Testimonies at DC Council Hearings
Members of PFFC’s Downtown DC Public Restroom Initiative, their advisors, and other supporters have delivered more than 40 presentations at DC Council Oversight and Budget hearings. We have testified in support of: The need for more clean, safe public restrooms in needed areas of DC; Bill 22-0223, Public Restroom Facilities Installation and Promotion Act of […]
Public Restrooms in the Media
Since beginning its advocacy in 2015, PFFC’s Downtown DC Public Restroom Initiative’s advocacy initiative has caught the attention of written media, television and radio including: the Washington Post, Street Sense Media, Curbed DC, DC Line, Hill Rag, Greater Greater Washington, DCIst, Kojo Nnamdi, WTOP, WJLA. Curbed DC, June 3, 2019 “A nearly unprecedented advocacy effort […]
