January 2026: Highlights of 2025, Dolly’s birthday celebrations, new board members, tax tips for 2026, February and March Coffee and Conversation session on engaging your board members in fundraising.

November/December 2025: Community Grant awards announcement and the 2025 Giving Back Guide, plus a holiday greeting.

October 2025: Food pantries — working hard as SNAP benefits pause, our list of funds you can give to might surprise you, big success for our first Coffee and Conversations event and how to sign up for the next one Nov. 11, Agency Funds info session info and signups, and lots of year-end giving deadlines. And how did we forget? GCG registration is open!

September 2025: Introducing our new monthly Coffee and Conversations event, Agency Funds Info Sessions (Oct. 14 or Nov. 11), Great Community Give save-the-date (April 22), and sharing the 211 Virginia resource

August 2025: County fair reflections, grant apps closing, Kelsey joins HR Chamber’s Leadership cohort, welcome to new donor services associate Ashlee

July 2025: New leadership, scholarship awardees, grant apps open, nonprofit survey, see us at the fair, TSA awards

June 2025: Inspiring collaborations, Goodbye to Board Chair Kevin Flint, apps open for new funding opportunities, new vocational scholarship, see us at the fair, and alumni on our Emory and Henry scholarship committee

April/May 2025: All about scholarships, Bowman Scholar success, new Candid rating, our intern Nick graduates, data points from Great Community Give, and hot tips on resources we follow to keep up with the news

March 2025: annual report and Great Community Give promotion

February 2025: nonprofit funding freeze survey; important 990 information; scholarship season is here!

January 2025: Dolly at Duke Dog Reading Night, our new fundholder portal, planning your charitable budget, the Giving Back Guide, new board members, registration for Great Community Give 2025, and Rev is a Paul Harris fellow!

Christmas/New Year’s greetings 2024

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