What We Do

What We Do

We regularly get together in-person and online for a wide variety of events and service projects. Our regular chapter meetings are held on the second Saturday of the month, September through May, with a virtual option. We also gather online for social events, such as book clubs and movie watch parties, and we throw the BEST virtual happy hours.

Community service is central to what we do. Whether you’re looking to invest a little or a lot of time, we have a broad range of opportunities for you to serve your community, build skills, and enjoy a new group of friends. Everyone’s DAR journey is different — we want to help you find what interests you!

Here’s just a sampling of all we do:

We love hands-on service projects.

Kayaking Clean-up on the Anacostia River
Cleaning the Vietnam War Memorial
Two women knitting
Knitting blanket sections for Warm-Up America
Members holding signs of thanks and love around a veteran in front of the Lincoln Memorial
Celebrating veterans visiting through Honor Flight
Planting seeds for Earth Day
Women creating Thanksgiving Bags for vterans
Creating Thanksgiving bags for veterans
Wreaths Across America
Planting trees

We promote life-long learning through chapter programs and outings, literacy promotion projects, partnerships with schools, and of course, genealogical research.

Woman wearing a "VOTE" mask holding up pocket constitutions in front of a Little Free Library
Our chapter regent distributing pocket U.S. Constitutions in English and Spanish to Little Free Libraries.
Point of view photo of members looking at Library of Congress Reading Room
A visit to the Library of Congress
Two women looking at artwork on exhibit
Enjoying an art exhibit at the Library of Congress
Group listening to tour guide in stamp exhibit at National Postal Museum
Touring the National Postal Museum
Virtual DCDAR book club hosted by our chapter for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Chapter group photo
Tour of the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office

And you may think of DAR as involving a lot of luncheons, teas, hats, ribbons. It does, and we are here for it!

Chapter group photo
DCDAR State Conference
Two women preparing a table
Preparing our Holiday Tea
Group photo of women, several in formal hats, in lobby of movie theater
Outing to see Downton Abbey
Women posed in photo frame at DCDAR State Conference
DCDAR State Conference
Women in formal attire greeting each other
DCDAR State Conference
Four dress-up women, one wearing a suffragette costume
DCDAR State Conference