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AT&T Foundation awards digital literacy grants to Richmond Highway area nonprofits
Children participate in United Community's SPARKS Summer Camp, which is benefiting from a $25,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation. (Credit: AT&T/United Community) Two nonprofits around the Richmond Highway Corridor recently received grants aimed at improving...
Career fair scheduled Wednesday in Springfield for military, veterans and spouses
The Mount Vernon Springfield Chamber of Commerce is presenting a career and resource fair for service members, veterans and their spouses on Wednesday, June 14. The event, at Embassy Suites, 8100 Loisdale Road in Springfield, will run from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. The...
Catalogue Blog: More Than Affordable Housing: Helping Families Thrive with Good Shepherd Housing
More than we realize, many of us likely know a friend or colleague who may struggle with long-term housing instability. Increases in the cost of housing in the DC metropolitan area routinely outpace increases in wages. In Fairfax County, specifically — one of the...
Good Shepherd Housing Raises Funds to Support 500 Families and Individuals Each Year
GSH has helped Northern Virginians for 40 Years. Local elected officials, former and current GSH Board members, Amazon Housing Equity Fund representatives and GSH staff and friends celebrated a ribbon cutting at Colchester Towne in September 2022. By Anne Miller...
CommonWealth One Federal Credit Union is One Step Closer to Awarding a $10,000 Donation to a Local Charity
CommonWealth One Federal Credit Union Selects Five Finalists to Compete to Win the $10,000 Donation Grand Prize for Their Local Charity. Alexandria, VA, USA – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, March 7, 2023 The Big Giver Contest Grand Prize to be Awarded at the end of March. "At...
Good Shepherd Housing leader honored at farewell luncheon
Outgoing GSH Executive Director David Levine (2nd from l.) with Fairfax County BOS Chair Jeff McKay, Mount Vernon District Supervisor Dan Storck and former Supervisor Gerry Hyland Fairfax County officials joined Good Shepherd Housing (GSH) board members, staff and...
Sheehy Auto Stores Donates $219,500 to 21 Charities in Washington, Baltimore, Hagerstown, and Richmond as Part of Annual Giving Program
FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sheehy Auto Stores has announced donations of $219,500 among 21 charities throughout the communities they serve in Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Hagerstown, Maryland; and Richmond, Virginia. The donations are part of...
$2 Million Amazon Gift Supports Hybla Valley Affordable Housing
HYBLA VALLEY, VA — A community in the Richmond Highway will be preserved as affordable housing through a $2 million Amazon gift to Good Shepherd Housing. Good Shepherd Housing, a Richmond Highway corridor nonprofit, was selected to receive the gift to keep the 18...
Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund will support new developments in diverse and historically significant communities of color
Amazon recently announced a commitment of $147 million to create and preserve 1,260 affordable housing units in six of Washington, D.C.’s eight wards and nearby Maryland and Virginia communities – primarily in partnership with minority-led organizations. This is the...
Amazon to Fund More Affordable Housing in SE Fairfax
The funding is part of a $2B development promise from Amazon. Colchester Towne Condominiums Amazon.com is awarding more than $163 million in loans and grants to affordable housing project developers in the District, Virginia and Maryland — and a project in Southeast...