Gingerbread (charity) single parents return to the workplace. Gingerbread’s policy and research team works with elected representatives and other policy makers to influence policy and practice on issues relating to single parents. Gingerbread has campaigned against negative stereotyping of single parent families. Their ‘Let’s lose the labels’ and ‘Single parents: you’re brilliant’ campaigns both challenged stigma against single parents. Recently, Gingerbread has campaigned against government proposals to charge parents to use the Child Support Agency, and against cuts to Legal Aid proposed by the Welfare Reform Bill. The records of Gingerbread are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the
The Community Music School of the Piedmont westerly part of the greater Washington, DC area. The Community Music School of the Piedmont (CMSP) has been in operation in Virginia since 1994. Originally begun as a music school linked to the children's choral group, the American Children of SCORE, the school grew rapidly and became an independent entity in 2001. It is a non-profit organization that enjoys status as a tax-exempt charitable organization under section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Service code. The school offers a wide range of group classes, ensemble programs, individual instruction, and music therapy. In addition, it provides a variety of scholarship