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Salvation Army LAWS Senior Center Blue Ridge S&H Center Scout Venturing Crew |
Good Shepherd Alliance Habitat for Humanity Loudoun Cares Algonkian Regional Park Clean-up Loudoun Literacy Council |
| Salvation Army |
Our Club members support the good works of the Salvation Army by volunteering to ring bells at Salvation Army kettles during the Christmas season. A Night of Comedy Hurricane Relief Show 2005 which raised thousands of dollars for relief to over 30 families affected by the hurricanes in the south who have relocated to the Loudoun County area. The Salvation Army currently supports these families by providing food vouchers, prescriptions, new and used clothing, household items and furniture, gift cards, referral services, and other items as needed.
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| LAWS (Loudoun Abused Women's Shelter) |
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LAWS (the Loudoun Abused Women's Shelter) opened in March 1985 to provide temporary emergency shelter, food and emotional support to women and their children who were escaping domestic violence and abuse. Currently LAWS offers a wide range of direct services to more than 1,500 Loudoun County, Virginia citizens annually. Prevention and education programs are presented throughout the county to reduce the incidence of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse. Through its programs, LAWS seeks to empower survivors of personal violence so that they may live lives free from fear, anxiety, and danger. [ Top ]
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| Senior Center |
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The Senior Center at Cascades in Sterling, Virginia came into existances as the result of a massive community organization and fund raising effort. The Center has over 1,000 sernior citizen members active in its programs and a large corps of volunteers. A sing-a-long and occasional dances are popular features. At the Club's suggestion, the Senior Center has established a Music Appreciation Committee, on which we are represented, to provide a music appreciation and therapy program. The Club has undertaken the furnishing of two assembly rooms with sound equipment, including a special facility for the hearing impared. Rotarians also assist in the recruitment of volunteers for the program and by involving our Interact Club in a "grandparenting" component. In addition our Club is providing for furnishing and landscaping a handicapped-accessible picnic area at the Center. Rotary Club of Sterling Contact: Dan Erickson [ Top ]
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| Blue Ridge Speech & Hearing Center |
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Blue Ridge Speech & Hearing Center is a not-for-profit community resource founded in 1964 offering speech, language, and hearing professional services at a very reasonable cost. Operating funds are derived from fees for service, donations, fund raising events, appropriations from the County of Loudoun, and to a lesser degree, the United Way. [ Top ]
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| Scout Venturing Crew |
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Venturing is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts of America for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years of age. Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults. Venturing is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between youth, adult leaders, and organizations in their communities. Local community organizations establish a Venturing crew by matching their people and program resources to the interests of young people in the community. The result is a program of exciting and meaningful activities that helps youth pursue their special interests, grow, develop leadership skills, and become good citizens. [ Top ]
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| Good Shepherd Alliance |
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The Good Shepherd Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that has been providing emergency housing and support for the homeless in Northern Virginia for over twenty years. The Good Shepherd Alliance is developing new programs and services to assist our homeless neighbors in Northern Virginia to become self-sufficient. With new programs such as our homeless drop-in center, our street outreach program and our developing workforce development effort, we are working hard to bring the greater Northern Virginia community together to serve those suffering from homelessness and poverty. The Good Shepherd Alliance looks to serve as a national model in alleviating homelessness and poverty in the Northern Virginia area by organizing community outlets and utilizing community assets through innovative programs and services. [ Top ]
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| Habitat for Humanity |
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Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization. We welcome all people to join us as we build simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership with those who lack adequate shelter. Since 1976, Habitat has built more than 175, 000 houses, providing shelter for nearly 900,000 people worldwide. Now at work in 100 countries, we are building a house every 26 minutes. By 2005, Habitat houses will be sheltering 1 million people. [ Top ]
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| Loudoun Cares |
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A group of local citizens who understand and value the important role of nonprofit organizations in Loudoun County were looking to the future when they formed Loudoun Cares in 2002. They raised start-up funds, hired an executive director and began to work on the goals of developing an information and referral telephone line and a nonprofit center.As the fastest growing county in the country, Loudoun faces many challenges and opportunities. One of those challenges is the maintenance of our nonprofit sector in the face of our high metropolitan area cost of living, dramatically escalating rents and property values, and increased demand on our nonprofit organizations. Loudoun County has a long history of taking care of its own. With our population growth, the challenges of maintaining our ability to do so have increased, and the strategies necessary to do so grow in scale. Loudoun Cares aims to provide the stability needed so the people in our County don't suffer. [ Top ]
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| Algonkian Regional Park Clean-up |
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Sterling Rotary Club members spent Saturday, June 9, along the Potomac River at Algonkian Park as part of a "Rotarian Volunteer Clean Up Day." Club members and their families spent the morning hours on the banks of the river collecting hard to reach trash and debris. Afterwards, the Sterling Rotary donated $1,000 to the Northern Virginia Regional Park Foundation targeting future clean up efforts at Algonkian Regional Park. [ Top ]
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| Loudoun Literacy Council |
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The Loudoun Literacy Council is a community-based, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to improving literacy throughout Loudoun County. They recruit and train volunteers to teach adults, both native-speakers and speakers of other languages, to read, speak, write, and understand English. For children, they provide early literacy enrichment for at-risk preschool children and children who reside in our local homeless shelters, while supporting their parents as their child's first teacher. Our classes and programs are available to all who reside or work in Loudoun County.
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