Charity Providers
Below are the Charity Providers selected for the Charity Home Tour. If you’d like to donate to the Charity Home Tour, please use the button below.
Agape Center
https://www.agapecentersml.org/
The Agape Center Inc. is a God-directed outreach ministry. They provide many services including food, clothing and household needs along with financial assistance for emergency needs, such as funds for utility bills, rent and medical needs. Agape also provides emotional support through its mentoring program and offers a course to help their clients get out of poverty.
Charity Pairing: James Home
Bedford Ride
The Mission of Bedford Ride is to improve the quality of life for Bedford County citizens by providing better access to non-emergency medical services (non-Medicaid). Volunteers provide disabled, elderly, and low income people in our communities with easy and affordable transportation.
Charity Pairing: Campbell Home
YMCA Group
https://www.franklincountyymca.org/
The YMCA GROUP consists of 2 separate charities that have partnered together — the Franklin County Family YMCA – Smith Mountain Lake and the SML Marine Volunteer Fire & Rescue. Franklin County YMCA provides opportunities for families and individuals to improve their health and well-being through a variety of programs, including its second-grade learn-to-swim program, Parkinson’s relief program, multiple summer camps for youth, Arthritis relief classes, its preschool program for working parents, and youth mentoring. SML Marine Fire Rescue provides 24/7 emergency services on the waters of SML. They respond to calls for assistance with boating accidents, alarms, and hazardous materials, they assist with on-water community events, and provide water safety education.
Charity Pairing: Wilson Home
STEP: Solutions that Empower People
STEP and its partners facilitate Solutions That Empower People to overcome their barriers to economic, educational, and developmental success within the communities it serves. Programs are designed to partner with individuals and families to help them overcome adversity and enhance their quality of life through community, economic, personal, and family development. STEP works to ensure that all services are provided in a timely manner, with professionalism and respect. STEP is headquartered in Rocky Mount and provides services to residents of Franklin Bedford, and Patrick counties, and surrounding areas.
Charity Pairing: Huffman Home
Helping Hands of Franklin County
http://helpinghandsfc.com/index.html
Helping Hands of Franklin County’s mission is to provide financial assistance to help the emergency needs of the citizens of Franklin County. Typical emergency needs include electric bill termination or overdue notices, rent or mortgage issues, heating fuel, prescription medication and other emergency needs. In addition to emergency financial assistance they provide budget counseling to their clients and referrals to other appropriate agencies. Their volunteers provide this assistance with care and dignity to each of their clients.
Charity Pairing: David Home
United Way of Virginia’s Blue Ridge
United Way of Virginia’s Blue Ridge is known as a leader in responding to community needs. United Way brings together people, resources and strong community partners to improve lives today and impact our community for future generations. Of particular note, it works a) to ensure young children have support both in and out of the classroom in order to surpass school readiness and reading benchmarks, b) to ensure that local teens graduate from high school so they can secure a successful future, and c) to ensure adults are healthy, both physically and financially, with access to employment opportunities that lead to self-sufficiency.
Charity Pairing: Streff Home
SML Good Neighbors
http://www.smlgoodneighbors.org/
SML Good Neighbors is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in Moneta, Virginia. The organization, founded in 2007, provides academic, enrichment and nutritional programs, free of cost, to students in rising 1st – 6th grades through the summer enrichment day camps, the weekend bag program, and student enrichment the arts programs. They also provide access to hotspots from US Cellular, scholarships to high school seniors in Franklin and Bedford County, Virginia; and leadership development internships to college students from around the globe. Their mission is to develop good neighbors skills and values in children through programs that nourish, educate and support them while providing life-changing experiences for college students through leadership development internships.
Charity Pairing: McCarry Home
Tackfully Teamed Riding Academy
The Tackfully Teamed Riding Academy is a therapeutic riding center in Henry, Virginia. Its mission is to provide therapeutic horseback riding and other activities to persons with disabilities, giving them an opportunity to improve their physical, mental, emotional and social lives. Therapeutic riding offers children and adults with disabilities a chance to enjoy an “able body activity,” reaching achievements in ways they thought were impossible.
Charity Pairing: Pike Home