Help the Helpers
Huddle Up Moms
Huddle Up Moms began in Southwest Virginia with the mission of empowering mothers through education, connection, and support. We aim to fuel meaningful connections within our community by working collaboratively with other organizations that promote women’s health and wellness. We believe that all mothers deserve to flourish in all aspects of their lives.
Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition
The Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition (VHRC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, peer-run organization whose mission is to improve the health of the drug-using community we serve by advocating for, developing, and implementing evidence-based solutions to address the adverse effects of drug use.
Blue Ridge Literacy
The mission of Blue Ridge Literacy is to support achievement of life goals by providing opportunities to strengthen literacy skills to adults in western Virginia. One of our main philosophies is to keep a learner’s goals and interests in mind when working with them.
SERV
SERV’s mission is to speak out against prejudice through education, advocacy, and
engagement in the Roanoke Valley. We strive to own our privilege and use it to disrupt
prejudice in all its various forms.
LEAP
LEAP nurtures our food community. We do this to create food and farming systems that prioritize health and abundance by supporting community initiatives, markets, farms, and farmers.
Roanoke Diversity Center
Roanoke Mutual Aid
We are people supporting each other and our communities in times of crisis and every day. Institutions don’t take care of us — WE take care of us. We all have needs, and we all have something to offer. Join us in practicing solidarity, not charity.
Roanoke Alliance for Progress (RAP)
A hub for local action and conversation. Building trust, equity & grassroots power. Join the community.
Roanoke Reparations Group
A group of passionate individuals, faith-based groups and community leaders who are interested in repentance and repair.
Porch Roanoke
PORCH Roanoke is an all-volunteer hunger relief organization. We collect food and cash donations through monthly neighborhood food drives and deliver the contributions to food pantries who provide emergency food to individuals and families in our area.
Casa Latina
Casa Latina is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency that addresses the needs of the local Spanish-speaking community in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia. We are based in the City of Roanoke but our reach goes far beyond the city’s limits.
Roanoke Refugee Partnership
Our mission is to partner with the refugee members of the Roanoke community by providing equitable access to resources supporting economic, social, physical, and mental well-being.
Justice Advocates in the Roanoke and New River Valleys
Justice Advocates will be an effective interfaith voice for justice, compassion, and transformation.
Andrea Pitzer
Beth Macy
Beth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist who writes about outsiders and underdogs. Raised poor in a small Ohio community, she is the award-winning author of three New York Times bestselling books examining rural communities left behind by corporate greed and political indifference.