Change Recipients
DecemBER 2020
TAP - Total Action for Progress
Total Action for Progress understands that poverty steals dreams. We work to restore hope, dignity, and opportunity for those who want to claim their potential or need a second chance. With over 25 programs, we make education, jobs, and safe places to live a reality. TAP offers over 25 programs designed to help people get and stay out of poverty. We work to restore hope, dignity and opportunity for those who want to claim their potential or need a second chance.
Funds raised will be used to support our more than 25 programs that help individuals and families achieve economic and personal independence through education, employment, affordable housing, and safe and healthy environments.
2020 Change Recipients
JANUARY 2020
CHIP (Child Health Investment Partnership of Roanoke Valley)
Child Health Investment Partnership changes the lives of underserved children and their families through access to comprehensive healthcare services and community resources.
Funds will be used to purchase safety items such as pack n plays, baby gates, outlet plugs, etc. CHIP families do not have the discretionary income to purchase such items that keep their child safe.
FEBRUARY 2020
The Compassionate Friends of the Roanoke Valley
The mission of The Compassionate Friends: When a child dies, at any age, the family suffers intense pain and may feel hopeless and isolated. The Compassionate Friends provides highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.
Funds raised will provide materials for parents to remember the child they lost.
MARCH 2020
Wasena Neighborhood Forum
Wasena Neighborhood Forum’s mission is to nurture a vibrant community through advocacy and action. We seek to build community identity, engage our residents, and improve livability through beautification and safety-enhancing projects.
The money raised will be used to enhance and re-establish Wasena’s neighborhood tree canopy. Planting new trees and replacement trees for those that have been lost in storms over the past few years.
APRIL 2020
SARA Roanoke (Sexual Assault Response & Awareness, Inc.)
SARA Roanoke respondS to sexual violence in our community through an empowerment model that is trauma-informed, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary.
The money raised will go toward providing free and confidential direct services to those who have experienced sexual violence, specifically through our 24-hour crisis hotline, counseling services, and victim advocacy through the criminal justice system.
MAY 2020
The Making Foundation
The Making Foundation was founded in 2016 to encourage learning through hands-on experience. We have found since then that learning through hands-on experience serves a wider audience than we originally imagined. From empowering people to healing people who have suffered from trauma to workforce development to the average Joe/Jane that just wants to learn a new skill and take a break from their computer work.
Funds will be used to purchase supplies for students.
JUNE 2020
Clean Valley Council
Over the last 40 years, Clean Valley Council has brought together some of the area’s brightest minds to address environmental challenges and build support for addressing them. We foster collaboration between municipal agencies on issues ranging from stormwater pollution, renewable energy and recycling challenges to protect shared natural resources. Our vision for the future is to expand this model to other communities in Virginia. We are always looking for champions within municipal agencies, schools, or businesses to help build a more sustainable Virginia one region at a time.
Funds will be used to purchase supplies for hands-on learning experiences.
JULY 2020
Boys and Girls Club of Southwest Virginia
Boys and Girls Club of Southwest VA’s mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia provides a safe place to learn & grow, ongoing relationships with caring adult professionals, life-enhancing programs and character development experiences, hope & opportunity.
Funds will be used to support our health, life skills, and fitness programing. Specifically our Triple Play program, which focuses on increasing our club members daily physical activity and teaches our club members good nutrition.
AUGUST 2020
New Freedom Farm
New Freedom Farm is a non-profit community farm located in Buchanan, Virginia. We exist to aid veterans with PTSD, Substance Abuse, and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) by using the therapeutic activity of interacting with our equines, farming, and peer-to-peer support. The end goal is to personally empower veterans and help them heal through the realization of their own efforts and contributions.
New Freedom Farm’s mission is “healing heroes through horses.” Oftentimes, veterans develop deep friendships through equine activity and gentling, fostering physical, emotional, and spiritual health, which helps with reintegration into civilian life. Veterans and their families in pursuit of our mission are always welcome at New Freedom Farm.
Funds will be used to support the New Freedom Farm mission and serves as many veterans as possible.
SEPTEMBER 2020
Instill Mindfulness SWVA
InStill Mindfulness SWVA creates increased self-awareness, greater life satisfaction, and healthier communities by helping people experience a deeper understanding of themselves and the world. This is achieved through mindfulness-related education, resources, clubs, and retreats.
Their vision is to instill mindfulness throughout Southwest Virginia, through education and outreach. Their core principle is Connection—with heart, mind, self, synapses, nature, and community.
Funds will be used in their InSchools program, which provides in-depth mindfulness training, completely free-of-charge, to faculty in the region's public schools.
OCTOBER 2020
The Grandin Theatre Foundation
The historic Grandin Theatre is operated by the Grandin Theatre Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, nonprofit organization.
A healthy Theatre Foundation and a well attended Theatre translates to patrons and guests spending their time and discretionary income in the surrounding restaurants, retail stores, and service-oriented businesses in the Grandin Village community. A healthy Grandin Village is in turn good for the City of Roanoke and the greater Roanoke Valley, providing arts and cultural offerings for residents, visitors and guests.
Funds raised in October will go toward the operations for the Grandin Theatre Foundation.
NOVEMBER 2020
House of Bread
House of Bread shares tools to help returning citizens begin anew—tools for restoring confidence, dignity and hope. Over the course of an eight-week session women are exposed to new skills through hands on training coupled with emotional and spiritual support while baking and selling bread alongside volunteers from the Roanoke community. In addition to learning basic kitchen and baking skills, women receive ServSafe food handler and or manager training, develop marketing and customer service skills, and partner one-on-one with mentors who shepherd them through a job search and resume building process. Each session culminates with the ServSafe certification exam and a mock interview clinic.
DECEMBER 2020
Total Action For Progress (TAP)
Total Action for Progress understands that poverty steals dreams. We work to restore hope, dignity, and opportunity for those who want to claim their potential or need a second chance. With over 25 programs, we make education, jobs, and safe places to live a reality. TAP offers over 25 programs designed to help people get and stay out of poverty. We work to restore hope, dignity and opportunity for those who want to claim their potential or need a second chance.
Funds raised will be used to support our more than 25 programs that help individuals and families achieve economic and personal independence through education, employment, affordable housing, and safe and healthy environments.