The Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, also known as MHCDO, is a nonprofit community-based organization that has undertaken community development activities in the Ward 7 area of Washington, D.C., since 1979. MHCDO has developed on its own 60-unit supportive housing facility, a 469-unit garden-style apartment complex, 220,000 square feet of retail/office space, 20,000 square feet of warehouse/industrial space and more than 150 homes sold to low and moderate income buyers. MHCDO has more than 40 staff members and is governed by a 65-member broad-based community board of directors.