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Creating Safe Spaces with Side by Side
The city of Richmond illuminates in June – not with streetlights, but rainbows. An adopted symbol of the…
AFOI: Breaking Down Barriers for Families of the Incarcerated
When incarcerated individuals stay connected with their families, rates of recidivism – meaning the tendency for criminals to…
The Kwek Society Fights to End Period Poverty
One in three students in America leaves or misses school entirely because they don’t have access to period…
OAR of Richmond: Reentry the Richmond way
OAR of Richmond, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals who have been impacted by the criminal justice…
2023 Women’s History Month Nonprofit Roundup
Throughout history, women have played a major role in influencing and revolutionizing societal and political issues – often…
A Q&A with The Read Center’s Nausha Brown-Chavez
Everyone needs and deserves a literate life. That is the core belief of The Read Center, a community-based…
Jacob’s Chance is for Everyone
As Kate Mardigian walked off the baseball field with her two young sons 15 years ago, she passed…
If you can read this, you can help
Volunteers are desperately needed to teach English to newly arrived refugees Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in…
RampsRVA Draws Attention to Home Accessibility in Richmond
In the 17 years since RampsRVA was established, it has worked to provide and assemble 530 (and counting)…
Four nonprofit summer programs for children and adults with disabilities
As the school year comes to a close, many parents of children with disabilities are searching for somewhere…