Members of Virginia Media lend a hand at P.B. Young Elementary School
This year, over a dozen members of Virginia Media, including sales reps, strategists, and reporters from the Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press, volunteered their time and skills to help the United Way’s Day of Caring. The teams spent the day to improve the quality of life in their communities by assisting with landscaping, painting, and cleaning. All three locations had different groups with different tasks to beautify the properties.
Kelly Till, Virginia Media’s Vice President of Advertising, said, “We always enjoy participating in the Day of Caring and helping promote and celebrate the value of volunteering. This one-day event helps us increase employees awareness of our local community needs. Virginia Media is committed to giving back to the communities we serve.”
The ForKids team worked on the organization’s social enterprise project, Good Mojo. This project involved sorting clothing donations, stripping the parking lot, organizing donations, cleaning windows, and painting customer bathrooms. ForKids provides housing for families and children in Hampton Roads.
P.B. Young Elementary School, in Norfolk, received some sprucing up by staining fence posts, repainting front the porch, trimming bushes, mulching playgrounds, and more.
The Gladiola Group Home is a residential home in Virginia Beach that houses four to five individuals with intellectual disabilities. The staff provides 24-hour services that include support and assistance with money management, personal care, participation in recreational and social activities, and coordination of medical and dental care as needed. This team beautified their home by weeding the flower beds.
Along with these three organizations, community members from all over South Hampton Road came together to lend a hand to many local non-profit, human services agencies in our area. Last year, 1,181 volunteers from 51 companies worked on 104 service projects that benefitted 53 local human services agencies.