Young philanthropists make difference by volunteering

The little boy in the red shirt couldn’t speak much, and Haley Rising didn’t have much experience with autism, but together they created something special at the Children’s Museum of Richmond.

Company News for Nov. 25

Virginia Supportive Housing and VHDA win National Housing Award

Richmond – Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH), the statewide non-profit organization that serves homeless adults by providing permanent, supportive housing, recently received a national housing award recognizing outstanding achievement from the National Council of State Housing Agencies in partnership with the Virginia Housing Development Authority (VHDA), the state’s housing finance agency.

Nonprofit Group Provides Homes to the Homeless

The life stories that brought them here are diverse: medical problems, family problems, mental health problems. Jobs lost, dreams deferred. But the 60 single adults who live in Heron’s Landing, one of four such residences in Hampton Roads provided by the non-profit Virginia Supportive Housing, share a common bond: they have all known the despair of being homeless.

Notable Gifts: Wells Fargo donates $95,000 to ‘housing first’ initiative

Wells Fargo & Co. has donated $95,000 to Virginia Supportive Housing to renovate the Studios II development in South Richmond as part of $6 million in grants nationally for neighborhood stabilization projects.