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SUNDAY IN THE PARK with FRIENDS:
Celebrate Hope, Health,
and Life Creatively
Sunday, May 18, 2008 1-4pm Rain or Shine!
Franklin Park Performing & Visual Arts Center, Purcellville, VA
Admission and Parking Free
This FREE event is co-sponsored
by The Loudoun County Community Services Board (CSB) and Loudoun County Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services
and features a variety of entertainment, food and a community art project.
This fun event for all ages will showcase
a variety of performers, local bands, comedians, jugglers, musicians, activities, and an interactive community art project
in and around the newly opened Arts Center in picturesque Franklin Park. Red Hot & Blue will offer their world-famous
barbeque and refreshments will also be available.
The Dulles Greenway 3rd Annual Drive for Charity
THURSDAY, MAY 15th 100% of the tolls collected on the Dulles Greenway on this
day will be donated to five different local charities:
March
of Dimes
Loudoun Chapter of the Special Olympics
Loudoun Abused Women's Shelter(LAWS)
Fresh Air/Full Care
Loudoun Wildlife
Conservancy.
In addition, proceeds from the drive also support the Dulles Greenway Citizenship Award-- a $1,000 scholarship
given to 12 seniors from Loudoun County Public High Schools.
GOVERNOR KAINE CONGRATULATES
LOUDOUN CARES AND LOCAL PARTNERS ON ACHIEVING MATCHING
FUNDS
To read more about this and to see pictures from the ceremony, click HERE.
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| Gov. Kaine at Loudoun Cares ceremony |
NEW Faith Winter Fuel Fund
2008 marks
the third year that Loudoun Cares, National Electronics Warranty Inc. (NEW), the Loudoun County Department of Family Services and
generous partners from the local faith community have joined
forces and resources to keep area residents warm during winter.
This year, as
in years past, NEW, helped launch the effort with a generous $7,500 donation to Loudoun Cares and a challenge to the
interfaith community and other compassionate donors to match it. Our goal is to more than match the NEW contribution
and raise $20,000 this year. Every penny of the funds raised goes to help low-income families pay
utility costs. This creative partnership is rounded out by the Loudoun County Department of Family Services which has well-trained
staff who take applications and carefully determine the eligibility of families seeking assistance.
Last year the
Department of Family Services used these funds to prevent cutoffs or facilitate reconnections for 185 area residents living
in 51 households. This amounts to an average payment of $274.00 per family.
This
year our generous Interfaith partners include:
-All Dulles Area Muslim
Society Center (ADAMS Center)
-Beth Chaverim Reform Congregation
-Christ the Redeemer Roman Catholic Church
-Congregation
Sha’are Shalom
-Crossroads United Methodist Church
-Goose
Creek Friends Meeting
-Guru Angad Institute of Sikh Studies
-Potomac Falls Church
-Saint Francis de Sales
-Saint Gabriel’s Episcopal Church
-Saint
James Episcopal Church
-Saint Peter's Episcopal Church
-Unity of Loudoun
County
How to Contribute
Donation checks can be made payable to Loudoun Cares.
Please note in the memo section that the contribution is for the
NEW Faith Winter Fuel Fund.
Send donations to:Loudoun Cares, PO Box 83, Leesburg,
VA 20178
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| To donate to the NEW Faith Winter Fuel Fund, click here |
Our Mission
To create and sustain a nonprofit human service center
that includes comprehensive information and referral services
benefiting Loudoun residents.
Our Vision
A center where nonprofit organizations collaborate to
provide integrated:
Education
Human Services
Information &
Referral
Programs
& Community Projects
To learn more about
Loudoun Cares, call
703-669-4636.
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Loudoun Cares and the Loudoun Chamber of Commerce are partnering
to
Welcome Home the Loudoun National Guardsman
To contribute, click on the link below
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Loudoun
County Chamber & Loudoun Cares Join Forces
Loudoun County Chamber, Loudoun Cares Join Forces to Collect Donations for National Guardsman Returning to
Leesburg Armory...Campaign raises funds and gift certificates to area restaurants and shops, to welcome Guardsmen home and
help them reconnect with their families after a year away
LEESBURG - One year ago, 180 National Guardsmen assigned
to the Leesburg Armory packed their bags and left their families behind to answer our nation's call in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
For an entire year, their families also have answered the call to duty, shouldering additional responsibilities in
the absence of their husbands, fathers, sons and brothers. In late April, these families will reunite after a year apart,
when 150 of the Guardsmen land at Dulles International Airport and return to the National Guard Armory, where their loved
ones will be waiting.
To "Welcome Home" these Guardsmen, and to thank them and their families for their shared heroic
service to America, the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce and Loudoun Cares are working together to raise funds and gift
certificates to area restaurants and shops. The Family Resource Group at the Leesburg Armory is also a crucial part of this
"Welcome Home" effort.
To make an online contribution to the National Guardsman Campaign, click HERE
"Working
with the Armory's Family Resource Group and the Virginia National Guard, we are soliciting restaurant gift certificates that
will provide our Guardsmen a night out to share a meal and reconnect with their families. We are also soliciting contributions
to purchase gift cards to offer their spouses or other close family members a special "thank you" for the support and commitment
they have made in the Guardsmen's absence," said Tony Howard, President of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
And
from Andy Johnston of Loudoun Cares, "People can have mixed feelings about the war in Iraq, but one thing on which we can
all agree is that these Guardsman and their families laid it all on the line. This is a way that any Loudoun resident can
say, ‘Thank you for your service and sacrifice.'
All financial contributions can be sent to Loudoun Cares, c/o
BB&T Bank (101 Catoctin Circle, Leesburg, Virginia 20175; phone (703) 771-7204). Gift certificates and any questions about
this campaign may be directed to the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce, phone (703) 777-2176.
The Chamber and the
Town of Leesburg also are organizing residents and businesses to greet the Guardsmen when they return, by waving flags and
signs along the route from Dulles Airport. Details of this "Welcome Home" effort will be available as soon as the Guardsmen's
return date is confirmed.
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| Claude Moore Community Builders Program |
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| Presenting J. Lambert with a gift of thanks |
Claude Moore Community Builders Program Graduates 1st
Class!
Loudoun Cares held a reception dinner and ceremony to honor the first group
of Loudoun teens to complete the Claude Moore Community Builders Program.
Congressman Frank Wolf and J. Hamilton Lambert
were the Guests of Honor for the evening and addressed the CMCB graduates and their families.
The Community Builders
Program provides volunteer opportunities for teens based on their personal and academic interests. Each teen in the program
completed more than 65 hours of service to the community.
The Guru Angad Institute of Sikh Studies provided dinner
for the ceremony and Holly Heider Chapple Flowers donated floral decorations.
For more information on the graduates,
click here.
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