Every spring since 2008, interior designers and landscape designers from the Washington area help raise money for Children's National Medical Center by participating in the DC Design House project founded by Skip and Debbie Singleton, owners of DC Living Real Estate.
When Frank Chiaramonte, vice president of Chiaramonte Construction Co. in the District, heard about the needs of the Children of Mine Youth Center, he immediately picked the nonprofit organization as his company's charity of choice.
When retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Gary Gaal began doing volunteer work in 1994, he never dreamed that after logging more than 19,000 hours of unpaid work, he would be rewarded with an exterior transformation for his home in Alexandria.
