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Real Estate Prices and Salaries Top Non-Profit Help List

Enlisting support from businesses and community. By Mike Salmon, Mount Vernon Gazette Mount Vernon — With a two-bedroom apartment averaging $1,700 a month and nearly half of the salaries in the county at $50,000 a year or less, the non-profit community...

Wine, Beer & Helping Others

Wine, Beer & Helping Others

Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services hosted “Virginia Grapes & Hops” Saturday at the Cedar Knoll Restaurant giving the opportunity for supporters to sample wines and beer from the Port City Brewery in Alexandria and hors d’oeuvres. The event proceeds helped to transform the lives of a family on the brink of homelessness with access to affordable housing, provide emergency relief to a struggling neighbor, or send a child in GSH programs to summer camp.

Nonprofits Explain Missions to Chamber

Nonprofits Explain Missions to Chamber

The Mount Vernon-Lee area is blessed to have numerous non-profit organizations, all dedicated to assisting the residents living primarily along the Richmond Highway corridor, who do not compete against each other but instead complement each other’s various missions.

‘Truly Helping Our Neighbors’ in Mount Vernon

By Tim Peterson Over the next 10 years, Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services would like to add 150 units to the number it offers to clients struggling to find affordable housing in Fairfax County. That goal triples the Mount Vernon-based nonprofit’s current rate...

Governor McAuliffe Announces Administration Appointments

For Immediate Release: March 17, 2017 Contacts: Secretary of the Commonwealth's Office: Denise Burch, Denise.Burch@governor.virginia.gov RICHMOND – Governor Terry McAuliffe announced additional appointments to his Administration today. The appointees will join...

Inspired by MLK

Going to school might seem like a surprising way to spend a federal holiday, but that’s just how a large number of Sidwell Friends students, parents, faculty, and alumni celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. January 16 marked the School’s second MLK Day of...

Domestic Violence Victims Faced with an Impossible Choice

Street Sense — Tenickia Polk knew she had to get out of her abusive relationship but struggled with the housing reality. “I didn’t really realize that I had become homeless with this decision and I wasn’t familiar with the housing options,” said Polk, another domestic violence survivor. “A shelter sounded pretty scary to me, So what I ended up doing was staying with friends for a very long time, moving from place to place.”

Transforming Lives at the GSH Gala

Transforming Lives at the GSH Gala

Mount Vernon Voice — Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services held its Transforming Lives Gala at the Westin Alexandria Saturday evening. President and CEO David Levine noted that 2015 saw another year of their success for their housing residents moving from homelessness to permanent housing stability. “They saw their lives transformed for the better,” he said. “They realized a fresh start on a new future of prosperity. And it all started with a roof over their heads.” The Mount Vernon Voice was proud to be a media sponsor of the Good Shepherd Housing gala.

Local Movers Volunteer for GSH

Local Movers Volunteer for GSH

Mount Vernon Voice — When a homeless family finally gets a roof over their heads, the expense of moving to a new home and buying furniture can break the family’s budget, notes Good Shepherd Housing and Family Services director of development Candice Bennett.

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