Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who made the holidays brighter for all our clients at Embry Rucker Community Shelter. Your generosity this holiday season was amazing and overwhelming and while we can’t name you each individually here, you all played a role in making life better for those who are so often forgotten.
The list below is only a sampling of those who reached out to help over the last few months!
The Wee Play Network of Incredible Moms for providing holiday gifts and gift cards for families and children, and needed children’s and baby items throughout the year, plus working the Santa’s Workshop and Elf Store to help our children and family clients choose gifts for each other.
Dell EMC, VM Ware and Wells Fargo for volunteering for the Gifts for Kids Drive
Maria Jose Andreotta, Reyna Geddes and Vanda Ngo for your ongoing volunteer support of the Coat Closet
Virginia Merrill and FOCUS of McLean Bible Church for children’s clothing and gifts, plus housewarming items for folks moving to their first homes
Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation for a huge donation of chocolate and other candies
Isabel Castillejo, Sha Li, Aya Funahashi and friends for children’s clothing items
Christie Shumadine and Lissa Perez for taking on Ginger Mahon’s Wish List Project to provide needed supplies and gifts for ERCS
Nina Orsini and the Katie McGuire/Virginia Greear Circle of Herndon United Methodist Church for stockings filled with goodies for our clients
Potomac School students for serving meals regularly and providing a day of service to us this fall
Dun and Bradstreet for their continuing support at the holidays and throughout the year to help our clients
Pramiodh Adi and friends for the caring and sharing blankets
Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church for catering and games night at ERCS
Kimberly Blough and the folks from Lowes Island Elementary School for stocking stuffers and gifts
Mary and David Supley Foxworth for gifts for our singles
Mike LeMay and Penny Fulton for purchasing holiday gifts for the children and adults
BridgeStreet Global Hospitality for providing toys for the Gifts for Kids Drive
The Reston Garden Club for decorated mugs of greenery to display around the shelter
Dulles Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for their annual donation to the shelter
Saint John Neumann Catholic Community Just Faith Group for gifts, games night and caroling for our singles clients
V5 Analytics for catering and gifts for children
Herndon High School Student Leadership Class for gifts for teens and adults through their angel tree drive
Forest Grove Elementary for making our shelter the beneficiaries of their Holiday Fair
Reece Westfield and Friends for a day of beauty and hairstyles for our clients
Team Bonding and The Lukens Company for a day of service projects
Jean Pacelli and Beth and Tom Eckert and family for all they did to provide special gifts for our singles and outreach clients
Gate Gourmet providing gifts for the holidays
Eddie V’s Prime Quality Seafood for joining us as regular food donors through the Food Donation Connection Program
Diane Lanigan for her regular volunteer assistance and abundant donations of hypothermia season supplies for our outreach clients
Neustar employees for catering and service projects at the shelter
Verisign for the wonderful housewarming baskets for those moving to housing
Erika Foxen and friends for collecting gift items for our single adults and outreach clients
Salesforce employees for catering and doing cleaning and organizing projects
Sunset Hills Montessori School for catering meals and tutoring for our children
Giving Circle of Hope for their regular volunteer work providing children’s activities
Lowe’s for their service workdays making many repairs and improvements here at the shelter and catering a meal for us
Ms. Caitlin McBride’s class at Aldrin Elementary School for the boo-boo bunnies for our family clients
Fatima and friends for providing a Valentine’s Party for our families
Cameron Glahe and her 8 year old son, Hayden, for collecting donations based on the shelter wish list. He really wanted to ‘help people with no home’.
Reston Community Church for monthly games nights
The following individuals and organizations saw that everyone at the shelter was well fed during the season by providing delicious food and/or volunteers to serve:
The Detwiler Family
Gregory McKinney and Pete Frippis
Lata Srivassen and Family
Zeta Upsilon Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
Verizon Wireless Employees
Minh Tran and Family
Dr. Finley’s Family Eye Care Employees
Padma Shastri
Deepa Patke
ICNA Relief-Dulles Women’s Unit
The Roemer Family and Friends
Rina Byrd and Family
Venkat Madduri in honor of his brother
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for MLK Day
Floris United Methodist Church
Zeinab and Friends
Sheveta Sharma and Friends
Deb Reilly and Friends from the Herndon BUNKO group
Rani Jutley
Erika Meadows for a special Super Bowl treat!
Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Dulles Airport Sterling
St. Joseph Catholic Church Men’s Society
The Temple of the Healing Waters
Fairfax Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Employees
Love Wins Community Table
Rokhsana Kamal
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