Rebuild, Empower, Connect
Amount Raised:
$68,415
$38,860 Raised
Silveria
$15
O'Sulliv...
$150
Free Agents Marketing
$250
Megan & Will Rollins
$130
Jo Elliott
$50
Circle7, First Presbyte... Church, Richm...
$85
Anonymous
$10
Eucharia jackson
$25
Virginia Edmunds
$150
Anonymous
$50
Anonymous
$120
Tina and B millner
$500
Tori Kennedy
$50
Anonymous
$75
Annette and Ben Sparks
$50
Lindsay Erickson
$50
Schatzi Wexler
$100
Mieko Timmons
$10
Olivia Dillard
$20
Bonnie B Dowdy
$25
Anonymous
$500
Martha Rollins
$338
Anonymous
$25
Beth O
$50
Anonymous
$10
Anonymous
$25
REV. DR. PAIGE LANIER CHARGOIS
$70
Anonymous
$250
Movement Church
$1,000
Omega W. Wilson
$250
Greta Kidd
$71
Mark and Rhonda Parson
Charles and Sheila Brown
$50
Evan
$50
Anonymous
$300
Mary Shelden
Anonymous
$50
Julia B
$30
Anonymous
$100
Bob and Judy Nelson
$100
Chris Moss
$100
Brian & Kelly Cannon
$50
Donald and Antoinette Ayers
$100
Mary and Jim Payne
$100
Jessica Summers
$25
Mike & Erin Holler
Erin Freeman
Mary Beth Cahill
$100
FM Solutions
Megan Rollins
$26
The Williams Family
$100
Thomas Petersik
$25
Carolyn M. Meares
$1,600
Melba Gibbs
$50
Wendy Henley
Sue & Mert Fowlkes
$50
Curtis Sharpe
$25
Betsy and Pete Gallagher
Trevor S. Cox
$100
Anonymous
$145
Kim and Dwight Ludwig
$20
Ann and Jim Belk
$1,000
Gretchen & Jeff Marr
$20
Lauren and John Neal
Kim McCall
$100
Will Rollins
$50
W Douglas Elliott jr
$250
Benita Miller
$50
Anonymous
$25
Cathy Howard & Jeff Gallagher
$100
Prue Irby Swerlick
$100
Bruce Gottwald Jr
$500
Buzzy and Becky Winn
$100
Tom Edmonds
$100
Sam & Dolores Clement
$75
Bill and Jackie Stallings
$200
Judy Watkins
$100
Tanner Pilcher
$100
Joan Trotti
Terrell & Elliott Harrigan
$1,000
Anna Lou Schaberg
Randy Rollins
$200
Bea Robinson
$100
Fran Bolin, AFOI
$25
Anonymous
$25
John and Winnie Westbrook
$200
Anonymous
$150
Karen Kelly-Tu...
$50
Bill and Nancy Holland
$50
Curt & Alison Fallecker
$150
Carlos M. Brown
$200
Anonymous
$50
Ann
$50
Christ Church Episcopal
$1,000
Elizabeth & Michael Martin
$100
Anonymous
$50
Ruthie Byrne
$25
Anonymous
$25
Anonymous
$25
Anonymous
$165
TR Baldwin
$25
Anonymous
$195
Ruth Cosby
$10
Nancy Essig
$100
Geoff Weathersby
$40
Janet Peacock
$25
Anonymous
$145
Anonymous
$5,000
Anonymous
$150
Brooke E. Lawsing
Colette Bernard
R, R, and L Drewniak
$50
Dr Charles Gaskins
$25
Virginia Flanagan
$50
Jenn Sgro Orfield
$50
Lee and Jim Heck
$50
Erik Grotz
$15
Anonymous
$110
Laura Castleman
$25
Ashley and Chris Perry
$25
Linda Devine
$10
Catrina and Errol
$100
Horne & Mailloux Families
$50
Anonymous
$25
Isma Hedrick
Will & Cindy Franck
$75
Christie and Peter Farrell
$250
Leslie and Joe Moore
$50
ELLA EMMETT
$50
Mickey & Dick Mateer
$100
Anonymous
$205
Ann C. Hodges
Clagett
$115
Shantaram &Sunita; Talegaon...
$50
Michelle
$40
Grace Covenant Presbyte... Church
$1,300
thomas jefferson iii
$100
Causey and Beverley Davis
$100
Hugh and Nancy Harrison
The Covenant Class, First Presbyte... Ch...
$55
Holdcroft Family
$50
Anonymous
$100
Steve and Dixie Berg
$500
Kelly's Kids Party
$85
Kiple
$150
Anonymous
$200
Nan and Bill Summers
$200
Anonymous
$250
Annie kasper
$50
TUCKAHOE PRESBYTE... CHURCH
$750
Kathy and Steve Rogers
$500
Terri and John Caldwell
$500
Sue and Allen Wimett
$50
L & J Sakowicz
$50
Sally Brown
$25
Catherine Ham, Realtor
$100
Martha Rollins
$250
Sadie Kennedy
$200
Matthew Schaaf
$25
Barbara Greenleaf
$50
Anonymous
$550
Randall White
$100
Martha Rollins
$100
Tunstall B Willis
$100
Meredith and Daniel Screeney
$100
Don and Ruth Niederri...
$100
L. Lambrecht
$25
Alison and Eric Martin
$25
Anonymous
$500
Andy Johnson
$50
Anonymous
$10
Pat and Sue Taylor
$100
Greta Kidd
$25
Greta Kidd
$25
Greta Kidd
$25
Carol & Ray Trgina
$45
Kenneth Wayland
$200
Sally T. Bagley's
$100
Mary
$50
Dennis
$20
Corell Moore
Everett Reveley
$150
Dee
$10
Tanner Smith
$100
Tanner Smith
$100
Todd Goldsmith
$100
Anonymous
$200
Anonymous
$10
Christy Bartholo...
$500
Joe Bartholo...
$500
Bob S
$25
Bonsai Beasley
$10
Mechelle
Mike Michalow...
$20
Suellen Leftwich
$25
Robin
$50
Tim Hudock
$10
Anna McKenney
$2,000
Cynthia Brown
$25
Anonymous
$25
Empowering Economy, Rebuilding Lives, Connecting Communities
Planted in the center of Highland Park, one of Richmond, Virginia's most challenged areas, Boaz & Ruth advances a mission of rebuilding lives and communities through relationships, training, transitional jobs, and economic revitalization.
Three key strategies are:
Empowering the physically blighted commercial corridor of Highland Park by restoring buildings, operating social enterprises and providing jobs.
Rebuilding lives of men and women needing a second chance through relationships, transitional jobs and training.
Connecting Highland Park neighbors and our program participants to the wider Richmond community through shared experiences that bridge racial, economic, and geographic barriers
A key component of the strategies is collaborative partnerships with our neighbors in Highland Park, with the criminal justice system, other non-profits and government agencies, as well as individuals and the business, faith-based and academic communities. The creative vision of Boaz & Ruth has received national recognition including an invitation to the White House for an event recognizing social entrepreneurs who pursue innovative solutions to serious social issues.
Because Highland Park is in the center of 6 of the 7 census blocks with the most number of returning folks from prison and jail, we have developed a formal reentry program to help individuals rebalance their lives. When someone is released from prison, a decent job, a safe home and healthy relationships are hard to come by. Add to these challenges of reentry the fact that individuals often return to communities weighed down by the very problems and issues that help spawn crime and it is easy to understand the vicious cycle of recidivism. It is difficult to sustain long-term individual change without changing the community as well. Who better to be change agents for a community than community members themselves who may have contributed to the community challenges? Men and women doing the hard work of personal change are changing the community around them as well. That's what makes Boaz & Ruth's program so unique.
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