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We look forward to seeing you at 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, January 16, 2024
New Location: McClain's at First and Main Blacksburg, Stadium Room (near the bowling alley)
Local Charitable Organizations Highlight - October 2023
Literacy NRV's mission is to foster, support, advocate for, and instruct adults in the New River Valley who seek opportunities to achieve greater independence through literacy.
Services are provided to help adults improve basic skills to achieve personal, employment, and civic goals. We provide instruction in reading, writing, math, and GED preparation; English for Speakers of Other Languages and U.S. Citizenship test preparation; digital literacy; financial literacy; family literacy; and health literacy.
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Led by volunteer tutors and instructors, programs are delivered in various formats with one-to-one and small group tutoring or classroom-based instruction. We serve about 325 adults per year and are supported by about 100 active volunteers.
Join our mission of changing lives through literacy! www.literacynrv.org.
For the last 26 years, Beans and Rice has worked to improve the lives of low to moderate-income individuals and families in our area by working in three main areas:
1) Food Security,
2) Family Stability, and
3) Youth Development.
Our work includes activities such as Tuesday food distribution at our Radford office, MicroSolutions technical assistance for business startups, Micro Credit and Loan programs, academic enrichment programs and summer camp experiences for elementary and middle school youth, and internships and volunteer experiences for local and visiting high school and college students.
Mayapple is a non-profit preschool, unique in that it's curriculum consists primarily on outdoor learning. Mayapple preschoolers and teachers aren't detoured by weather. Melissa West, founder and head teacher, uses it to the advantage of learning. she's known to stomp in the mud puddles with the students. Please read about the school at www.mayapple.org. The pictures of the students speak volumes and the explanation of their tuition can be perused.
In Mayapple's success as a preschool has brought in many more students to a point of creating a waiting list. They want to be able to accommodate so many more and that can happen with the retrofitting of their location. It will also open the possibilities for more summer camps which extend into higher age levels. Their new location has a list of needs to accommodate the usage and requirements by the city, but once done, it's return to the community will be larger.
Your Donations at Work










Literacy NRV - October 2023
Intellectual Disabilities Agency of the NRV - August 2023
Calfee Comm. & Cultural Center - April 2023
AAF Roanoke (Buzz4Good) - January 2023
Micah's Soup for Seniors - October 2022
Community Health Center of the NRV - July 2022
The Arc of the NRV - April 2022
Women's Resource Center of the NRV - January 2022
Montgomery Museum of Art and History - October 2021
Bean and Rice - July 2021
Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program (MCEAP) - April 2021
Inmate Family Assistance of the NRV - January 2021
Valley Interfaith Child Care Center (VICCC) - July 2020
No meeting due to COVID-19 - April 2020
To Our House - January 2020
Bobcat Backpacks - October 2019
Woodchucks - July 2019
Carilion Clinic Hospice NRV - April 2019
NRV Agency on Aging - April 2019
Christiansburg Institute, Inc. - January 2019
Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program (MCEAP) - July 2018
Montgomery County Educational Foundation (MCEF) - April 2018
Valley Interfaith Child Care Center (VICCC) - January 2018
Blacksburg Refugee Partnership - October 2017
College Mentors for Kids - VT - April 2017
Montgomery County Educational Foundation (MCEF) - January 2017
Community Health Center of the New River Valley - October 2016
Sisters Foundation - July 2016
Children's Museum of Blacksburg (now Wonder Universe) - April 2016
Montgomery County Educational Foundation (MCEF)
Montgomery County Emergency Assistance Program (MCEAP)
Blacksburg Interfaith Food Pantry