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Nonprofit organizations serving Loudoun’s children and families are finding it increasingly difficult to secure and maintain stable, affordable, mission-enhancing work environments.

Multi-tenant centers not only provide such space, but they can also enhance their tenants’ operations and promote their missions.

Models elsewhere around the country have demonstrated the efficacy of the multi-tenant nonprofit center approach. Working together, organizations are able to provide better and more cost-effective service than what they might have achieved without the facilitation and advantages of collocation in a nonprofit center.

Several factors contribute to the pressing need for such a center in Loudoun at this time:

  • Ours is among the fastest growing counties in the country

  • Health and Human service needs are growing while many sources of philanthropic funds are declining. The result -- our nonprofit sector is being asked to do more with less

  • Commercial rents in Loudoun are escalating dramatically

  • Reducing rents, sharing community space and providing other cost saving measures that can only be realized by locating agencies together will result in more funds going to programs and services and fewer to overhead expenses.

  • Efficiencies are required to help agencies weather fund raising fluctuations due to economic changes and other factors.

Loudoun Cares Agency Advisory Board

As a 501c3 charitable organization, Loudoun Cares is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of community leaders. In order to promote collaboration and community input in the development of the future Multi-Tenant Nonprofit Center, the Loudoun Cares Board invited local agencies to serve on the Loudoun Cares Agency Advisory Board.

Eighteen partner agencies have participated on this Advisory Board and the group elects a member to represent them on the Loudoun Cares Board. These partners include future tenant partners as well as other agencies desirous of using community space or being part of shared services arrangements.

The Community Partners are:

American Red Cross- Loudoun

Brain Injury Services *

Blue Ridge Speech and Hearing *

Fresh Air/Full Care *

Friends of Loudoun Mental Health *

La Voz of Loudoun *

Legal Services of Northern Virginia *

Loudoun Abused Women's Shelter

Loudoun Community Free Clinic*

Loudoun County Department of Family Services

Loudoun Interfaith Relief *

Loudoun Literacy Council *

Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers *

MotherNet Healthy Families *

Northern Virginia Family Service *

OAR of Fairfax *

The Good Shepherd Alliance *

Volunteers of America


* - an asterisk denotes agencies that have expressed interest in office space at the planned MTNPC

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Governor Kaine

 Loudoun Cares Exceeds Commonwealth Grant Match Brings $187,000 to Nonprofit Center Initiative & Community Programs

With generous contributions from Inova Loudoun Hospital ($30,000), National Electronics Warranty ($30,000), Telos Corporation ($25,000) and Howard Hughes Medical Institute ($10,000), and the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region ($5,000), local nonprofit Loudoun Cares has exceeded the match requirement for an $87,500 non-state grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia. “We wanted our Government officials to know we can and will go above and beyond,” said Peter C. Burnett of Burnett & Williams and Board President of Loudoun Cares. Another Board Member, Alice Frazier of BB&T says, “This is leveraging at it’s very best. The Commonwealth of Virginia provided a generous matching grant and local businesses stepped up and made it happen.”

At the state level, Senator Mark Herring served as patron in taking the grant request forward. The Loudoun Cares focus on nonprofit collaboration, streamlined services and business-like efficiencies resonated all of the way up to the Governor’s office. The request was included in the Commonwealth budget for FY 08. From Senator Herring, “Loudoun Cares is an incredible demonstration of the value of public-private partnerships and I am proud to work with them to further their mission to develop a human service center that will benefit Loudoun residents for many years to come. That they have turned an $87,000 investment from the state into $187,000 is truly remarkable.

The grant is administered through the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. The funds can be used for general operating support and/or capital projects. Loudoun Cares hopes to put most of the funds towards their vision for a nonprofit center that will house at least a dozen of Loudoun’s health and human service nonprofits. Loudoun Cares continues its search for a building to rehab or land on which to construct the future facility.

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Loudoun Cares Board Members Peter Burnett and Nancy Sutton and Executive Director Andy Johnston


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