How We Help

Education

A solid foundation in education is key to success later in life. Your donation funds teachers, books and extracurricular activities to help get youngsters off to the right start. 

Health

Basic health care that many of us take for granted can be hard for others to access. We ensure that underprivileged youngsters and adults have access to the health practitioners they need. 

Housing

Community is the family that goes beyond family. It is the people and places that we come in contact with each and every day. When we strengthen communities, we strengthen individuals.

Our Services

Poverty in the United States is as far reaching as it is damaging.

Evidence has shown that the neighborhoods we live in shape our health, our prosperity, and our children’s educational success. Residents of high-poverty neighborhoods do worse on a variety of measures, even when they themselves are not impoverished.


We understand that the consequences of poverty—homelessness, poor health, lack of educational access, violence, and hunger—can be severe and frequently have long-term consequences that lead to families being persistently poor across generations.


Thrive Virginia, a Community Action Agency founded in 1970, with a mission to eliminate poverty, seeks to ensure that families live in neighborhoods of opportunity, not restraint. Each program that we have established has been crafted to target one of the many and pervasive root causes of generational poverty.

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