Third Cycle (October 2022)
Augusta County
Allegheny Mountain Institute: To provide farm-fresh produce to Highland County families on a weekly basis.
Ride with Pride: For general operating support, such as student scholarships and horse care.
Rockingham County
Blue Ridge Free Clinic: For general operating support to assist patients in obtaining long-term, accessible, affordable, stable primary care.
Boys and Girls Club: For scholarships for Rockingham County clubs.
Explore More Discovery Museum: To support weekly toddler and preschool programs.
Shenandoah County
Community Care and Learning Center: To support the addition and renovation of bathrooms at its childcare center.
Shenandoah Valley Lutheran Ministries: To purchase diapers for A Small Hand toddler and infant pantry.
Winchester/Frederick County
Access Independence: To provide home modifications, adaptive equipment and technology to help people with disabilities live more independently in their homes.
Second Cycle (June 2022)
Augusta County
Community Foundation of Central Blue Ridge: To support the nonprofit Jones Gardens in its expansion of a community garden in Staunton.
LIFEworks Project: To support its microgrant program to assist neighbors in their press forward toward independence.
Mental Health America of Augusta: To run its I.C. Hope program through the local YMCA, providing support services from pre-kindergarten through 12th grades.
Rockingham
Blue Ridge Foster Love: To supplement overhead costs for its foster care closet and purchase items required to be new, such as diapers, wipes and car seats.
Winchester/Frederick
Council on Alcoholism, Lord Fairfax: To replace the HVAC units at its Lord Fairfax House, a residential halfway house for people recovering from addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Godfrey Miller Home: To subsidize the cost of meals to older adults in the community who have limited financial meals.
Love to NIC: To provide necessities, such as shoes, socks and clothing, and meals to area homeless.
Page
Living Legacy: To help with the cost of its first employee, a part-time facility manager who helps to promote the mission of encouraging personal development and healthy lifestyles for youth.
Stanley Volunteer Fire Department: To keep equipment in working condition for its group of about 50 members.
Shenandoah
Sustainability Matters: To support Shenandoah County-based activities of its Making Trash Bloom project at the landfill.
Regional/Other
Girl Scouts of Skyline: To support financial assistance in its service area, to include funding girls with membership, uniforms, books and more.
Salvation Army Front Royal: To purchase gifts for underprivileged children in the Angel Tree Christmas assistance program.
First Cycle (February 2022)
Augusta County
Renewing Homes of Greater Augusta: To perform critical home repairs for a client living at or beneath 150% of the federal poverty threshold.
Page County
Arise of Page County: To offer emergency housing funds that supply area homeless with a safe place to sleep.
Page Alliance for Community Action: To offer free swim lessons at Hawksbill Recreation Park in Stanley and Lake Arrowhead in Luray.
Rockingham County
Brain Injury Connections of the Shenandoah Valley: To benefit its “Circles of Support” program serving clients, offering a comprehensive set of services to ensure people do not fall through the cracks of the health and behavioral health systems.
Shenandoah County
Shenandoah Alliance for Shelter: To supplement the utility assistance program to lessen the long-term financial impact of the pandemic on local households.
Winchester/Frederick County
Henry & William Evans Home for Children: To recarpet the main living room of the house and one of the parent units, improving the “home-life” feel and help to provide a safe, comfortable home for residents and staff.
Highland Food Pantry: To supplement the emergency financial aid budget, which covers expenses for utility bills, rental assistance and other everyday needs such as gas vouchers.
Literacy Volunteers: To expand its established reading curriculum and supplement it with classroom sets of level-appropriate novels and short stories.
Timber Ridge School: To improve the efficiency of utilities by purchasing three Energy Star-certified refrigerators for dormitories.
Wheels for Wellness: To provide free, door-to-door transportation to medical appointments and treatment for those in the region with no other means of transportation.
Winchester Area Temporary Thermal Shelter (WATTS): To provide two months of service for a temporary shower and toilet facility at the current site of the shelter in downtown Winchester.