“Giving back to our community means we’re a part of something bigger, deeper, and longer-lasting.”

- Ginger Walker, CEO Give Back Team

In 2022 we wanted to do even more good in our local communities so we created GBT GivesBack to highlight local non-profits surrounding Stafford, Fredericksburg, and Northern Virginia.

Below is the list of local non-profits that were nominated by local community members in 2022 for GBT GivesBack. During this #givingtuesday, please consider making a donation to a local 501c3.

Click the name of the non-profit to explore their website or even shop their shop. We understand not everyone may not be able to make a financial donation; liking their social media pages, their posts, writing a review, or even volunteering is another way to give back to our local non-profits today and throughout the year.

• Shadow Cats
  ”Shadow Cat Advocates (SCA) is a non-profit organization and community resource. Our mission is to aid, assist, protect, and defend feral cats throughout Stafford, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania, VA. We provide Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) services, education, outreach and rescue services.”

• wear blue run to remember
  ”wear blue: run to remember is a nonprofit running community that honors the service and sacrifice of the American military.”

• Ellies Elves
  ”Ellie's Elves is a nonprofit (501c3) organization whose mission is to support and encourage local families during times of crisis.”

• Friends of Stafford County Animal Shelter
  ”Dedicated to helping save lives by providing donor and volunteer support to the Stafford County Animal Shelter, FOSCAS provides medical care, food, supplies and more to help the shelter care for their loving shelter pets.”

• Fairy Godmother Project
  ”Our mission is to ease the burden of day to day life for families facing all phases of a pediatric cancer diagnosis.”

• Operation Heros
  ”Operation Heroes Connect (OPHC) is a nonprofit organization that partners volunteer service members and veterans with at risk youth.”

• Central VA Horse Rescue
  ”We rescue unwanted, abused, neglected, or abandoned equines; provide them with care and rehabilitation; and finally find them a compatible, loving home. We believe that education is the long-term solution to improving the lives of equines.”

• Loisann's Hope House
  ”Loisann’s Hope House is the Fredericksburg region’s oldest and largest family homeless shelter.”

• Gweneth's Gift
  ”Gwyneth’s Gift Foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and the use of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs).”

• Mental Health America FXBG
  ”Your gift ensures that Mental Health America can continue providing life-changing support and resources through our programs!”

• Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank
  ”To feed the hungry through a community-wide network of partner agencies and engage our community in the fight to end hunger.”

• Semper K9 Assistance Dogs
  Semper K9 Provides Service Dogs For Psychiatric Alert And Mobility Challenges. They Rescue Dogs From Shelters And Train Them As Service Dogs to wounded veterans at no cost.

• Campfire Critters
  Follow them on Facebook to help support our rescue efforts and stay up to date on fundraisers, sanctuary animals, farm improvements, and farm tours.

• DECA Colonial Forge Chapter
  ”DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.”

• Habitat for Humanity
  ”We build strength, stability, and self-reliance through shelter”

• Empower House
  ”Empowerhouse is a non-profit organization providing confidential domestic violence assistance in the city of Fredericksburg and the counties of Stafford, Spotsylvania, King George, and Caroline. These services include a free and confidential 24-hour hotline, a temporary emergency shelter, information, referrals, and advocacy.”

• Lorton Community Action Center
  ”The Lorton Community Action Center (LCAC) seeks to provide low-income individuals, senior citizens, and families residing in Fort Belvoir, Lorton, Newington and other portions of southeast Fairfax County with access to basic needs and the opportunity to empower themselves through LCAC’s self-sufficiency programs.”

• Paws for Purple Hearts
  ”We are dedicated to improving the lives of America’s Warriors facing Mobility Impairment challenges and trauma related conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury by providing the highest quality Service Dogs and Canine Assisted Therapeutic programs in which the Warriors themselves actively train Service Dogs for their injured comrades.”

• SERVE
  ”We SERVE our community by directly battling food, health, and energy insecurities through donations, volunteering, and strategic partnerships.”

• Fisher's House
  ”Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes where military & veteran families can stay free of charge, while a loved one is in the hospital.”

• Gingersnap Girls Foundation
  Raising funds to assist equine shelters, so that they may continue basic rescuing, sheltering, and adopting out of equines that may otherwise have lived lives of abuse or may have been slaughter bound.

• ACTS
  ”ACTS fosters hope, provides relief, and promotes self-sufficiency for our Prince William area neighbors in crisis.”

• RUYTS
  ”Help Our Heroes Fight The Battles They Can No Longer Fight Alone”

• Operation Hood
  ”We need the support from the community to help make a difference in the lives of community cats! There are many areas that assistance is needed when coordinating a TNR project in order to pull it all together.”

• Community Passion
  ”To engage local youth in bettering the community. We will work to make a positive impact through hosting and raising awareness for various service projects.”

• Strength & Honor MC
  ”We're a brotherhood of first responders: Military, Law Enforcement & Fire/EMS, dedicated to protect, support & honor those who defend our nation's safety & freedom.”

• Leave No Paws Behind USA
  ”We are a nonprofit dedicated to helping military families with the logistical struggles they face when moving with their pets to and from overseas locations.”

• Rotary Club of Stafford
  ”Rotary is an organization dedicated to the ideal of service, uniting business and professional leaders worldwide.”

• SFC Virginia
  ”The SFC is organized around connecting foster families and adopters in the Fredericksburg area and beyond with dogs and cats who have found themselves in a shelter.”

• R2H - Return to Home Fredericksburg
  ”We provide guidance to pet owners and the public on how to safely locate and settle the animal for trapping, including how to make a proper Lost Pet poster, when to involve a tracker, and how to properly use scent articles.”

• Mountain View High School PTSO

• North Stafford High School PTSO

• Rodney Thompson PTSO

• Andrew G Wright Middle School Parent-Teacher Organization

• Brooke Point High School PTSO

Stayed tuned to B101.5 on Friday, Dec. 2 as Ginger will be talking about a special surprise we have happening in December.

The Give Back Team is built on giving back. After each closing, we give a charitable donation to the charity of our client’s choice.