70 Years of Paying It Forward

In celebration of our birthday, we hosted a $500 Birthday Giveaway Social Media Contest for a week in July. One family won the prize, valued at $500. 

We gave families in the mall a chance to get a gift card to Bagel Joy, Starbucks or McDonald's out of our mystery grab bags.

Our team surprised Emma Moore, an English teacher at Glasgow Middle School, with nearly all the classroom supplies on her Amazon Wish List

We celebrated Ms. Alsbrooks, a Special Education teacher at Antietam Elementary School, by surprising her and her students with items needed for her classroom.

At Heritage Elementary School in Lynchburg, our team passed out 100 Starbucks gift cards to parents at school drop-off.

For the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley's Pride event, our team partnered with Laura's Lemons to distribute 42 specialty Rainbow Squeeze lemonades to attendees.

Our team visited Layered Cafe in Fairfax and handed out 25 $10 coffee gift cards to people in the shopping center.

Our Paying It Forward event at Jake’s Ice Cream brought together community members and the Fairfax County Police Department to continue a beloved tradition.

To help the Burke Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department continue their critical work, our team donated fire and rescue tools valued at $1,034.56.

During Teacher Appreciation Week, we delivered 300 bagels to educators across three school districts. As an added surprise, nine school faculty members received $70 Amazon gift cards, randomly placed in select bagel boxes.

To help beat the heat, our team surprised families at the Ashburn Farm Community Pools with free ice cream from The Inside Scoop.

In order to support Chantilly High School’s food pantry, our staff collected non-perishable food items to fully stock the pantry for the upcoming school year.

We delivered a variety of pies to the law enforcement team at the Loudoun County Detention Center in celebration of Pi Day.

We partnered with Latinas Leading Tomorrow to donate laptops to Latina youth, and surprised them with a $2,500 check to support their work empowering future leaders and learners.

Celebrate Trails Day was Saturday, April 25, and our team spent the morning landscaping with community partner, Friends of the W&OD Trail.