N Street Village, Inc. is a non-profit social services community founded in 1973 by Luther Place Memorial Church in response to the destruction from the civil rights riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. N Street Village is a caring community that provides a spectrum of services to meet the needs of homeless and extremely low-income women as they move to stable housing and maximum self-sufficiency. Every day (they are never closed) N Street Village provides food, clothing, showers, transitional and permanent housing, mental and physical health care, and support to re-enter the workforce. N Street village presently serves over six-hundred women; that's over 12% of the homeless women population in Washington, D.C.

Their primary responsibility is to help homeless and low-income women gain and maintain their highest possible level of self-sufficiency and satisfaction in their lives. The N Street Village community emphasizes and promotes a client's strength, dignity, ability and personal responsibility. They support, motivate and empower their clients through active and compassionate engagement. Clients are offered caring relationships as well as concrete resources and services through their interactions with dedicated and responsive staff and through the careful cultivation of an inclusive and hospitable community.

N Street Village is a community undertaking. A staff of two dozen is aided each year by more than a thousand volunteers. Participants, volunteers and staff come from all faith and secular traditions. Ninety-five percent of their annual budget ($1.5 million) is raised privately. Only four percent is received through public funds.