It is almost inconceivable that one of the richest counties in America would have residents who do not have enough to eat on a regular basis. The hardest hit are the children whose parents work sometimes 2 jobs to keep a roof over the family’s head. We have become involved with programs that provide food supplies to families, fill and give back packs to children on Fridays for weekend sustenance and to local growing programs that support the citizens.
100WomenStrong recommends grants to applicants, allowing them to better accomplish, or increase their capacity to fulfill their mission. Each of these grants increases the quality of life for the residents of Loudoun County.
Here is how 100WomenStrong has made an impact:
2024
Dulles South Food Pantry
Grant: $12,500
Support for our self-sufficiency program manager to empower our guests on the path to independence.
Food For Neighbors
Grant: $5,000
Support for Loudoun County’s middle and high school students experiencing food insecurity by providing access to nutritious food.
Galilee Backpack Buddies Program
Grant: $2,500
Support for 500 weekend meal packs to low-income students in Loudoun County.
Hunger Response Team of Sterling
Grant: $14,000
Support for our growing Backpack Buddies program, through which we provide six meals each weekend to 270 local school children
Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc.
Grant: $25,000
Support for strategic aspects of organizing multi-agency programming.
Love, KK
Grant: $3,500
Support for locally sourced nutritious food for 45 low-income families in Lucketts.
Seven Loaves Services
www.sevenloavesmiddleburg.org
Grant: $12,600
Support for three offsite food distributions/hunger relief days in rural Western Loudoun County’s African American community.
Virginia Hunters Who Care
Grant: $3,000
Support for providing 7,000 pounds of high protein venison to those facing food insecurity in Loudoun County.
2023
Better a Life
Grant: $6,000
Support for food pantry and food assistance to feed local low-income children and families in Loudoun County.
Dulles South Food Pantry
Grant: $18,200
Support for two new positions at DSFP to help us better serve the food insecure in
Southeast Loudoun County
Loudoun Education Foundation
www.loudouneducationfoundation.org
Grant: $10,000
Support for general needs of in-school pantries to serve 4 additional schools and
686 low-income students in Loudoun County.
Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc.
Grant: $10,000
Support for their volunteer corps
Love, KK
Grant: $5,400
Provide locally sourced food to Lucketts Community Food Pantry at Faith Chapel
Seven Loaves Services
www.sevenloavesmiddleburg.org
Grant: $10,500
support for bringing food to poor rural Western Loudoun Communities that don’t have access to a food pantry
Tree of Life Ministries
Grant: $14,000
Support for food pantry program for extremely low-income households in Loudoun County
Virginia Hunters Who Care
Grant: $5,000
Support to provide 15,000 pounds of high protein venison to those struggling
with hunger in Loudoun County
Women Giving Back
Grant: $15,000
Supporting Loudoun women and children in crisis with emergency clothing, food, and essentials
2022
Dulles South Soup Kitchen
www.dullessouthsoupkitchen,org
Grant: $20,000
Commercial kitchen renovation and meal distribution programs
JK Community Farm
Grant: $6,500
Curriculum development to reduce chronic disease and childhood obesity with food education
Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc.
Grant: $15,000
For their Sterling neighborhood satellite/partner pantries
Love, KK
Grant: $2,500
Provide locally sourced food to Lucketts Community Food Pantry at Faith Chapel
Seven Loaves Services
www.sevenloavesmiddleburg.org
Grant: $15,000
Support for bringing food to poor rural Western Loudoun Communities
that don’t have access to a food pantry
Women Giving Back
Grant: $15,000
Supporting Loudoun women and children in crisis with emergency clothing, food, and essentials
2019
Backpacks for Success (Loudoun County HS)
Grant: $1,635
Provide backpacks and basic school supplies to new freshmen, many of whom are attending an American school for the first time
Dulles South Food Pantry
Grant: $7,500
Expand hours for part-time operations staff to support at 40% increase in guests of the pantry.
JK Community Farm
Grant: $7,500
Develop 12 additional bio-intensive raised beds for increased organic crop production.
Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc.
Grant: $20,000
Purchase a food pantry vehicle.
2018
A Farm Less Ordinary
Grant: $5,000
Provide training and employment to adults with special needs, so they can develop a skillset in a food/farm industry
Catholic Charities of The Diocese of Arlington
Grant: $10,000
Purchase double door for efficient, safe delivery of food and increase commercial donor base
Dulles South Food Pantry
Grant: $10,000
Construction of a missing sidewalk link and expand hours for part-time operations staff
Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc.
Grant: $12,000
Purchase a pallet lift for warehouse operations
Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers
Grant: $5,000
Support for the food delivery program
Piedmont Environmental Council
www.pecva.org
Grant: $5,000
Start volunteer programs at Roundabout Meadows Community Farm to engage residents to grow vegetables and fruits for donation to food-insecure families
2017
Dulles South Food Pantry
www.dsfp.org
Grant: $8,000
Expand seasonal storage, improve current facility & hire PT Operations Manager for growing needs in 2017
Loudoun Hunger Relief, Inc.
Grant: $5,000
Improve technology in the pantry (inventory and request system) and provide nutrition and healthy cooking classes
Loudoun Volunteer Caregivers
Grant: $12,500
Funding for hunger relief, supplemental food delivery and shopping programs for elderly, chronically ill and disabled adults
