Giving Circle of HOPE Celebration!

Celebrate with us as we honor eleven exceptional nonprofit partners who were recenlty awarded grants.  They wiill be honored on May 21 at 7:00pm at a reception at Reston Community Center’s Rose Gallery, 1609 Washington Plaza, Reston, which the community is invited to attend.  Each of the 11 non-profit area groups will have a representative and a display table.

This is the ninth grant cycle for the Giving Circle of HOPE, an organization of more than 100 members that was founded in 2004 to promote volunteerism and effective philanthropy.  Members seek to make a difference in the community by contributing their time, talents and money to projects which encourage self-sufficiency and well-being among people in need in Northern Virginia.

Since its inception, the Giving Circle has given out over $665,000 through the Grant program, Empty Bowls and Gifts That Give Hope.

This year’s recipients of $5,000 grants are Alternative House, Computer C.O.R.E., Friends of Guest House, GRACE Ministries, Herndon-Reston FISH, Literacy Council of NoVa, Manassas Midwifery, Northern Virginia Therapeutic Riding Program, OAR, Packaged with Care (PWC), The Stroke Comeback Center.

For information, contact Rebecca Berntsen at 703-665-9334 or visit www.GivingCircleofHOPE.org