2024 Grant Recipients

Third Cycle (October 2024)

Augusta County

  • Blue Ridge CASA for Children: To recruit and train volunteer advocates for children who have been abused or neglected in Page and Shenandoah counties.
  • MaDee Project: For financial assistance to pediatric cancer patients and their families.
  • Mental Health America of Augusta: To meet increasing demand for programming for its I.C. Hope initiative to support youth in pre-K through 12th grade.
  • Renewing Homes of Greater Augusta: For critical home repairs to ensure safer, healthier living for residents in need.
  • Staunton Augusta Church Relief Association: Emergency assistance for those who have eviction notices and turn-off notifications for utilities.

Page County

  • Luray Hawksbill Greenway and Recreation Foundation: To support an archaeological study required by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources before extending the greenway to a nine-acre historic park.
  • Living Legacy: To fund staffing, transportation and meals for program serving about 70 high-risk youth a day.
  • Luray Volunteer Fire Department: For the purchase of pagers and chargers that alert firefighters to emergency alarms.
  • Page Alliance for Community Action: For its Porch Visit program, which assists about 85 families per week with housing and utility costs as well as the purchase of diapers and pull ups.

Rockingham County

  • Blue Ridge Foster Love: To purchase new items such as diapers, wipes and car seats to serve children in foster care.
  • Boys and Girls Club of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County: To support financial assistance to allow 17 young people to attend club activities for one month.
  • First Step: Response to Domestic Violence: To assist with providing legal advocacy and court accompaniment services to domestic violence survivors.

Shenandoah County

Bread of Life Food Pantry: To purchase food items, including meat, to help decrease food insecurity to about 100 lower-income households served.

Winchester/Frederick County

  • Blue Ridge Habitat for Humanity: To leverage matching funds to complete two essential home repairs.
  • Faith in Action: Wheels for Wellness: To purchase and install support scheduling software for a more streamlined and modernized process.
  • Operation Remember: To purchase basic hygiene products for residents across eight nursing homes and assisted-living facilities.
  • Shenandoah Arts Council: To support monthly Teen Art Club events to broaden youth accessibility to art programming.

Second Cycle (June 2024)

Augusta County

  • Dutch Hollow Hanger Cemetery: To gravel the entrance to the 225-year-old cemetery property, which is on the Virginia Landmarks Register.
  • Verona Community Center: To assist with expenditures related to increased use of its services, such as free private showers and laundry equipment.

Highland County

Dare to Dream Therapeutic Horsemanship: For scholarships to allow under-served participants access to its equine therapy services.

Page County

Page One: For its assistance programs, which include a food pantry and financial aid covering rent, utilities and fuel for those facing financial crisis.

Rockingham County

  • Any Given Child Shenandoah Valley: Transportation expenses for a week of performances during the 16th annual Tiny Tots Concert for Harrisonburg and Rockingham County students.
  • Blue Ridge Free Clinic: To purchase medications and ongoing service at its new in-house pharmacy, which carries 40 of the most common medications prescribed in primary care.
  • Open Doors: To provide case management and street outreach to those undergoing homelessness in the Harrisonburg and Rockingham community.
  • Spotswood Young Farmers: To assist with costs for farmers to participate in Farmers to the Bay, a program of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Shenandoah County

Valley Educational Center for Creative Arts: To offer projects and workshops for free or at a reduced cost for those who otherwise may not have access to the arts.

Winchester/Frederick County

  • Families Reaching Out Group: To purchase items for its essential baby items project, which distributes car seats, strollers, diapers, high chairs, and more to families in need.
  • Love to NIC: To provide monthly meals and clothing, including socks and shoes, to area homeless.
  • Winchester Area Temporary Thermal Shelter: To purchase new blankets for its evening shelter cots for the next winter season.

First Cycle (February 2024)

Augusta County

  • Augusta County Historical Society: For “Making Books Available Digitally,” a project to make out-of-prints books and other publications pertaining to important area history available digitally.
  • Jones Garden: For supplies and materials to support its 2024 growing season.
  • LEARN English and Reading Now: To purchase books and other resources for tutors working with area residents who are either non-English speakers wanting to learn English, or native English speakers who struggle with their reading and writing skills.
  • Ride with Pride: For general expenses of its therapeutic-riding program, plus scholarships to students.

Frederick County/Winchester

  • First Presbyterian Church: For the Helper Fund, which provides emergency assistance to resident in Winchester and Clarke and Frederick counties.
  • Godfrey Miller Home: For its Congregate Affordable Meal Program, serving lunches to older adults with limited financial means in the greater Winchester area.

Rockingham County

  • Elkton Area United Services: To help clients with electric bills.
  • Our Community Place: For transportation-related expenses when taking community members to appointments, job interviews, drug and alcohol treatment facilities and more.
  • People Helping People: To assist clients for past due utility bills.

Page County

Arise: To prepare and deliver hot, home-cooked meals to area clients, and buy food from the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.