By Holly Herman My name is Holly Herman. I’ve been a periodic speaker/trainer for the last four years, sharing my experience as an Executive Coach. I was attracted to Community Lodgings by the work they do. Community Lodgings is doing work that directly meets the needs of the community. The afterschool programs for the children […]
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Ambassador Reflections – Getting to Know Donna Cramer
by Joy Loving, Volunteer Donna Cramer is an Alexandria-based realtor with McEnearney Associates, Inc., who has supported Community Lodgings, privately and through McEnearney Associates, for nearly two decades. Donna has sponsored several of Community Lodgings’ “Spring Forward” functions and even found a way to creatively incorporate the Washington Nationals into her giving. We asked Donna some questions about her continuing support […]
Ambassador Reflections – Free Hugs for Volunteers
Marilyn Whitehurst loves her kids. Her kids include her own child, the children she cared for as a pediatric nurse, and now the second graders enrolled in Community Lodgings’ Youth Education after school program and summer programs, where she volunteers once or twice a week. “When I first met the kids, I fell in love […]
Ambassador Reflections – Leading with Passion
Marie Muscella met Community Lodgings completely by chance. Her lawyer and Community Lodgings board member George Tuttle invited her to a board meeting one evening. It was 2009 and Marie was re-evaluating her life. What was important? What mattered? Volunteering was always a part of her family’s life growing up, and somehow she had drifted […]
YB – A Transitional Housing Success Story
When YB first moved to the United States six years ago with no job, no home, and no help, he faced a seemingly impossible task: to achieve self-sufficiency while raising his high school daughter on his own. After six months at a local shelter, he enrolled in our Transitional Housing Program. Just two months after […]
Naydelin – A Youth Programs Success Story
Naydelin, a first grader at George Mason Elementary School, enrolled in Community Lodgings’ after-school programming in the start of the 2016-2017 academic year. At registration, we learned she had been in public school system for less than a year after moving from Honduras, and was an English Language Learner with a Special Education Plan to […]
Ama – A Transitional Housing Success Story
Ama and her husband came to America in hopes of a better life and greater opportunities. But for Ama, it was a frightening time in which she found herself totally dependent on her husband. Ama spoke very little English, had no friends or family in her new country and often found herself on the bad […]
Ambassador Reflections – Client Nelsa Tientore
Community Lodgings has helped me with my education. In elementary school, I was an A and B student. With the academic support of Community Lodgings’ after school program I became a straight A student. At the beginning of the 6th and 7th grade school, I didn’t have all my school supplies. Community Lodgings gave me […]
We’re breaking ground…
On May 9th, we officially held a groundbreaking for our property at 607 Notabene Drive! We are so excited to begin renovations to the building which will allow us to increase our supply of affordable housing by one additional unit. Renovations are expected to be completed by September and will result in six fully renovated […]
Spring Forward was a Blast!
Many thanks to those of you who came and celebrated with us for this year’s Spring Forward Fundraiser! We hope you had as good a time as we did! Here are a couple of snapshots from an evening full of fun and giving back, courtesy of guest photographer Dan Horsey. Enjoy! [rev_slider alias=”spring-forward-2017″]