2009-2010 Annual Report - Boys and Girls Club | of Harrisonburg ...

GREAT FUTURES START HERE.
OF HARRISONBURG AND
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
15
Years of
IMPACT
1996-2011
2009-2010
Annual Report

Our Mission is Our Reason for Being:
To enable all young people, especially those who
need us most, to reach their full potential as
productive, caring, responsible citizens.

A Message From Our Leader
Club Family & Friends,
For 15 years, the Harrisonburg and Rockingham County
communities have made a tremendous and positive difference
in the lives of children and youths through the Boys & Girls Clubs.
With just one employee, a heart full of hope, a head full
of dreams, and a room full of kids gathered in the run down former
Simms School, the Boys & Girls Clubs emerged from the cocoon of
its predecessor, Our Place After School, spread its wings and took
flight in 1996.
From its humble beginnings, BGCHR has grown,
endured, and endeared itself to the Harrisonburg and Rockingham
County communities. Although the road to today has had its share
of twists, turns, and bumps along the way, BGCHR has continued
to significantly shape lives of young people and provide unrelenting,
and inspiring hope for the future.
Even through adversity and obstacles, it’s always
important to pause and look back with fondness and appreciation
when we hit these milestones of longevity and continual impact in
the community. It’s fair to say that over this 15 year period, some
10,000+ ‘members’ and 23,000+ ‘other youth served’ have directly
benefited from the work and mission of this organization and the
support that each of YOU have given to these kids.
At its zenith and high-water mark, the club was in nine
locations in the area, serving nearly 3,000 youth a few years
ago. The down turned economy and logistical realities of long
term sustainability have now brought us a to a more logical and
manageable operating footprint. With the Simms Center and Blue
Streak Teen Center in Harrisonburg and the strategically placed
clubs in Grottoes (South River), Broadway/Timberville (Plains),
and Elkton (Elementary), BGCHR has a presence for youth in
Rockingham County in approximately a 20 minute drive in
each direction from Harrisonburg’s town center. The clubs also
continue to have a strong and mutually beneficial relationship with
Rockingham County and Harrisonburg City School Divisions
— providing ‘Positive Action’ programming during the school
day, supervising the ‘Day Report Center’ a student suspensionalternative
program, and recently adding the ‘New Vision Academy’,
which is helping expelled students earn their way back to a diploma
and allow them an alternative avenue back into educational success
and the ‘game of life.’
Despite our nearly $300K recent budgetary turnaround,
our task and charge get no easier in the current economic
environment. We remain an organization that is dependent upon
our community’s financial gifts for our continued operation.
Just as it was back in 1996, we will be hard-pressed to continue
to meet the resource and revenue needs of the kids and clubs
without our community’s continued support. We will certainly
be asking our supporters to ‘help us help the kids’ once again. The
community’s response and support to date have been exceptionally
generous, amazing, inspirational, and sincerely appreciated by our
organization.
As we head into our next 15 years, we remain unmoved
and unchanged in many of our long-held core values and our
mission. We remain a beacon of hope and opportunity to all youth,
regardless of their background, challenges, or circumstances. We
have the same burning desire to see every youth who comes from
program reach their full potential and grow into the ‘productive,
caring, and responsible citizen’ in this community that we all know
they can be.
We each have a daily opportunity to make an impact
and leave a legacy for youth in our community. Fredrick Douglas
once said, “It is easier to build strong children than to repair
broken men (and women).” Whether it’s on a tee ball field, or in a
classroom, or in the pew, or in the games room at their local Boys
& Girls Club, children are impressionable and eager for molding,
guidance, support, and direction for only a short window of
opportunity in their lives. Let’s not let that window of opportunity
close without each of us doing our due diligence in helping
provide some of our community’s neediest youth with every
opportunity to be successful. May our next 15 years together be as
productive and beneficial for kids as the first 15 have been.
The Boys & Girls Clubs – Powered by YOU !
Thank you for your continued help, prayers, and support of the
kids and clubs.
Onward & Upward,
Todd Bale
Executive Director
You Make The
Executive Director Todd Bale
going over the Boys & Girls Club Code
with Club members

Club
“Your Place After School”
officially becomes a
chartered Boys & Girls
Clubs of America affiliate
fulfilling its mission: to
inspire and enable all
young people especially
those from disadvantaged
circumstances to realize
their full potential as
productive, responsible and
caring citizens and leaders.
The Club is opened under
the leadership of founder
Heather Denman.
Through Federal 21st
Century Grant, 3 before
and after school programs
are started in Rockingham
County Public Schools.
Sustainability plans for
beyond the grant funding
included: fees from parents
based on ability to pay, fund
development by BGCHR and
funding, rent free facilities,
and janitorial services
provided by Rockingham
County Public Schools. All
previously grant-funded
programs are currently
sustained by this model.
Youth of the Year Gives Back
The Boys & Girls Clubs of
Harrisonburg and Rockingham
County (BGCHR) honored Melanie
Lewis as its 2010 Youth of the Year
at the organization’s annual Honors
Night banquet, Thursday, March 25.
Melanie was unable to attend the event
and receive her recognition personally,
because she was in Richmond that evening,
competing in the State’s Youth of the
Year competition, where she earned the
distinction of being named third in the state.
“We are extremely proud of Melanie
and her showing in Richmond. For a young
lady from our rural community to compete
so strongly in a state-wide competition of
this caliber speaks highly of her integrity,
character and citizenship,” said Cara
Lawhorne, Club director at South River and
area program coordinator for BGCHR.
One could say that Melanie, a
student at Blue Ridge Community College,
has BGCHR in her blood. She has been a
member of the Boys & Girls Clubs since her
early elementary school years and remains a
part of the organization still today.
Her mother enrolled her and her
sisters in the South River program, located
in Grottoes, shortly after the untimely death
of their father. Even when she entered
middle school, Melanie remained at South
River after school each day as a junior staff
member, a position that took her through
high school, as well. After graduating high
school, Melanie joined the Club staff and
continues to serve children in the very Club
that launched her BGCHR affiliation.
Virginia State Youth of the Year finalists,
including our own Melanie Lewis
(Pictured back row, second from left)
2010 Youth of the Year Melanie Lewis,
hanging out with a younger
Club member on the playground.
As winner of the local BGCHR
honor, Melanie received a plaque to
commemorate her honor. Her attainment
did not escape the attention of the audience
attending the Honors Night celebration.
In preparation for her absence from that
recognition event, board member John
Salem, owner of TeleMedia Productions,
ensured that Melanie received her proper
introduction through a pre-prepared video.
Upon graduation from Blue Ridge,
Melanie plans to enroll in Bridgewater
College and major in elementary education.
Being named Youth of the Year is
the highest honor a local Club’s member
can attain from any Boys & Girls Clubs of
American chapter across the country. Since
1947, the Reader’s Digest has sponsored this
special award to promote and
recognize service to Club and
community, academic performance
and contributions to family and
spiritual life.
Best of

Power Hour Provides Academic Success
BGCHR is proud of its service to youth who need
us most. Yet, our own internal documentation and
USA education statistics confirm that we have much
work still to do.
Academic performance for many of the
children we serve depicts bleak chances for their
success without early academic intervention. That’s
why BGCHR takes great pride in its delivery of
Power Hour, a homework completion program that
commands center stage each afternoon after school in
each of our five Clubs. Activities such as tutoring and
homework help are making the difference between
success and failure for the children we serve.
The biggest threat to a child’s academic
success is the tug of non-school related challenges
that pull him away from the homework focus. The
challenges are multi-faceted and include:
• Other demands on students’ time. Whether
watching television, working at an after-school
job or watching younger siblings, students have
many activities that compete for time after school.
• Negative attitude toward homework. Another
important factor is a negative attitude toward
homework. In interviews, children regularly
describe homework as tedious, boring, lonely
and pointless. Peer pressure can also contribute
to students’ negative attitudes toward completing
their homework.
• Lack of motivation. The most common trait
among children who do not successfully
complete assignments, and who ultimately
drop out of high school, is a pronounced lack of
motivation. When children begin to perceive that
other students are thriving, they label themselves
as failures and quietly resign from their studies.
Moreover, young children in disadvantaged
circumstances often observe the failures of older
teens and young adults and make an assumption
– even if they cannot put it in words – that the
world is not a level playing field.
• Emotional or social problems. Substance abuse,
social isolation and parental indifference can
lead to isolation and withdrawal. Another major
cause of homework difficulties is emotional
problems such as anxiety, depression, aggression,
compulsion or anti-social behaviors. Even a very
bright child may complain that the work is boring
and a “waste of time.”
• Absence of support. An absence of nurturing
parental support can produce feelings of
ambiguity, passivity, negativity or downright
hostility in young learners. Parents who fail to
interact positively with their children sometimes
pave the way for underachievement. Even some
bright children underachieve to get the attention
of parents who are preoccupied with careers or
social engagements.
Taken together, these obstacles present
a formidable barrier to productive learning and
successful homework completion, and without
intervention, can lead to dropping out of school and
limiting the success of that child’s future.
Through Power Hour, we have seen
consistent improvement in our members’ academic
performance throughout our years of operation.
Today, we see the report cards. We watch the children
and youths willing pull out their homework each day
and eagerly welcome staff support for their homework
assignments, and we see attitudes change toward
homework and completing out of school assignments
when our staff and volunteers are involved with the
children. Clearly, Power Hour is making a powerful
difference in the lives of our members.
Oustanding Volunteer Honored
Renee Wheeler serves meals and a lot more as
a volunteer for the Boys & Girls Clubs. The
Harrisonburg woman helps dish out 60 meals a day
but still finds time to lend an ear or voice a supportive
word to the youth who take part in the club’s activities
at the Lucy F. Simms Continuing Education Center.
BGCHR honored Wheeler at the annual
Honors Night awards dinner at the Simms Center,
March 25. Wheeler, who attended the event with her
son, Jaelen, 6, received a thunderous round of applause
when she was announced as the volunteer of the year.
“She’s an amazing lady that has a
tremendous heart for others, not only here at the Boys
& Girls Clubs but all across the community,” said Todd
One Woman
Bale, the club’s executive director.
Wheeler, speaking before receiving the
award, said she was gratified and maybe a little
surprised by the honor.“I didn’t know I had such an
impact,” she said.
During the night’s presentations, photos
of her were projected on a wall to boisterous applause
from the gathering of about 130 people.
“I love kids, I love helping and I love steering
them in the right direction,” the 32-year-old hairdresser
said before the dinner. Wheeler cuts and styles hair
and listens to the young people who come to the Club.
She also lends a hand when they’re having trouble with
their homework or gives them supportive feedback
when it’s needed. Often, she helps by listening when
one of the youth has a problem.
“It’s rewarding knowing that I was
commissioned by God to step into the life of these
children,” Wheeler said.
Club
Organization conducts first
strategic planning process.
BGCHR extends its services
into the Elkton Middle School
& Pleasant Valley. Almost
600 boys and girls are served
through these school-based
programs.
The Boys & Girls Club’s
membership had grown to
over 1,000. A further 800 boys
and girls attended special
events and other programs
for non-members during the
year. The annual operating
budget was about $1,000,000.
Club enters partnership with
city of Harrisonburg and
Harrisonburg Redevelopment
and Housing Authority
(HRHA) to renovate the
historical Lucy Simms center.

Club
Day Report Center Program
(DRC) is developed and
implemented at the Simms
Center in conjunction
with Harrisonburg City
Schools in order to provide
a positive, constructive,
and productive alternative
to short suspensions (1-10
days).
Andy Huggins becomes
Board President.
Elkton Club is opened
through an OJP federal
start-up grant. The Ottobine
Club closes. Todd Bale
becomes the organizations
second Executive Director.
Board Members Gain Top Honors
Andy Huggins, Virginia
Board Member of the Year
Two BGCHR board members received
top honors from the State last spring in
recognition of their leadership and service to
BGCHR.
Andy Huggins, immediate past
president received the coveted 2010 Virginia
Board Member of the Year Award, and Dixie
Garber, board secretary, was named the State’s
2010 Virginia Bev Burton Award winner as the
most impressive newcomer to a board leadership
position.
“One of the greatest examples of our
community and organization working together
in service is seen through our board of directors,
which is comprised of 13 professional men and
women who give tirelessly to the governance
duties of our organization. They also fundraise,
attend special events, serve as goodwill
ambassadors throughout the community, set
board policy and have oversight of our executive
director.
Community leaders who give their
time, financial resources, and talent to any
non-profit organization are prized jewels in
themselves. But, when a board member devotes a
large portion of his daily living to an organization,
that’s something to celebrate and recognize. So it
has been with Andy Huggins in his relationship
with the Boys & Girls Clubs,” said Board
President Derrick Whetzel.
Since 1996, Mr. Huggins has given his
all to BGCHR. During his years on the board,
Mr. Huggins has served as a Corporate Board
Member, Oscars Committee chairman, Board
President, Resource Development Chairman,
and in 2009, he co-chaired the It Just Takes One
Annual Campaign. His tireless work on that
campaign helped BGCHR exceed its fundraising
goal by $40,000 dollars!
“He has been here for us in good
times and bad… always devoted, always
giving, always leading, and always serving,”
said Executive Director Todd Bale.
Over the years, he has given
Dixie Garber, Virginia Bev
Burton Award Recipient
personally to help the Clubs
advance and fulfill the mission. He
touches the greater community in
numerous ways. He co-founded
the Community Foundation, has
served on the Big Brothers/Big
Sisters Board of Directors, and
hosts an annual Valentine’s Day
luncheon for local widows and
single ladies, so they don’t have to
feel alone on that special day. And,
he touches people far beyond the
community’s borders. Each year, Mr. Huggins
travels to far away places, such as Guatemala, with
the famous Dr. Patch Adams to help in medical
clinics for the poor.
Clearly, Mr. Huggins’ humanity and
social service touches not only BGCHR and the
community, but other corners of the world, as
well.
New board members often bring new
excitement and energy to a board. In 2009,
Dixie Garber joined the board and did just that.
She immediately assumed a role on the Finance
Committee, and she has not let up in her work for
BGCHR since.
In the fall, she agreed to co-chair
the It Just Takes One Annual Campaign
with Mr. Huggins. Her understanding of the
Neighborhood Assistance Program prompted
her to develop a flier that clearly explained
how our donors giving at certain levels can
receive a 40% state tax credit on their gifts. That
printed explanation, together with her and Mr.
Huggins’s personal conversations with donors,
added 15 new donors and over $18,000 to the
organization’s donor base.
Ms. Garber, senior vice president of
credit administration for United Bank, is quick to
tell others about our organization and its impact
on the whole community. In addition to being
a board member, she is also a Club parent. She
has spoken to local school boards about our
clubs and even convinced her husband, Mike, to
join our Advisory Council and to write his own
sizeable check for the campaign!
Going Above

New Vision Academy Provides Hope
The spring of 2010 brought a new
initiative to the community for middle
and high school youths who have been
expelled from school and often are bound
for the juvenile justice system. BGCHR
joined forces with Harrisonburg City
Public Schools to establish the New Vision
Academy in response to the needs of this
underserved segment of the teen population.
The Academy, housed in the Lucy
Simms Center, under the oversight of
the Boys & Girls Clubs, stands as the last
glimmer of hope for youths involved in
negative life -changing behaviors to get their
lives back on track and, hopefully, be reintroduced
to the mainstream of education.
“Through working with students
who receive extra help in alternative
environments, I have witnessed a common
trait that exists among many of these youths.
They have no positive vision for their
future. If these students do have a vision, it
is likely to be one that will perpetuate the
dysfunctional family and environmental
circumstances that they have been exposed
to throughout their childhoods,” said
Anthony Hill, BGCHR’s Teen Center
director and area program coordinator for
the organization.
“The New Vision Academy
is an alternative learning environment
that is affording the expelled youths an
opportunity to come here and engage in
a minimum of three hours of educational
instruction daily. Students placed in New
Vision Academy must adhere to regular
school rules as outlined in their home
school student/parent handbooks. School
district instructors provide the youths an
opportunity to complete coursework that is
equivalent to that of their home schools. The
district also provides funding, supplies, and
materials for the program,” said Hill.
New Vision Academy is a
Building Brighter
transitional program. One of the goals of the
program is to provide support in an effort to
return the students to their home schools.
For some of the older youths, however, the
program prepares them for their GED.
The program’s main goals are to: 1)
reduce the dropout rate for Harrisonburg
City Schools; 2) provide individual
educational opportunities for expelled
students that bring community resources
to bear in a supportive way; 3) make
students accountable for their own academic
success; 4) provide course credit recovery;
5) provide a clear transition pathway
back to their home schools; 6) provide
relationships and mentoring for students
with a long history of unsuccessful academic
performance; and, 7) provide tangible
evidence of their commitment, work ethic,
and educational accomplishments while
being expelled.
The participating youths are
evaluated for re-integration into their home
school settings. To return to the schools, the
youths must exhibit a pattern of attendance
that will enable them to successfully
keep pace with regular middle school or
high school course work, demonstrate
consistency in positive social interaction
with a focus on school work, and
maintain and complete a personal portfolio
that includes original writings, documents
produced from using technology in the
form of graphs or spreadsheets, completed
coursework, and documented community
service.
“The spring semester of last school
year was our trial and test period. We served
___ youths at Simms through the New
Vision Academy. These kids came to us from
varied paths, ranging from severe truancy to
gang involvement, and from teen pregnancy
related matters to assignees from juvenile
courts. Not all stayed the course, but most
did and ___ successfully returned to their
home schools in late August,” said Hill.
Club
Club successfully began
their first annual ‘It Just
Takes One’ campaign
that raises $149,000,
exceeding its goal. All clubs
go over 100 members at
each site. BGCHR begins
programming in local
schools delivering ‘Positive
Action’ and ‘Second Step’
programming to city middle
school students.
Clubs begin additional
collaboration with city
schools forming the
“New Vision Academy”
and create successful
Latino Outreach Project
called “La Casita” which
serves over 30 Hispanic
youth a day. In spite of
economic collapse and the
seemingly disappearance
of government funding –
club balances $1.157M and
shows $250K+ in financial
performance improvement.
BGCHR celebrates its 15th
Anniversary and the 10th
Anniversary for the Plains
and South River Club.

Latino Outreach Successful Through La Casita
Since late 2009, the Boys & Girls Clubs
of Harrisonburg and Rockingham
County (BGCHR) have actively engaged
in recruiting some 35 Latino children
ages 5-18 to an outreach program we are
conducting in the Valley View Mobile
Home Park. This community is located
north of the Harrisonburg City limits and
in Rockingham County. This location puts
the children out of attendance range for our
Clubs.
The fact that their parents work
long hours in the area’s industries that
include poultry plants and landscaping
businesses makes evening transportation
home from the closest clubs a problem that
is difficult to overcome. As a result, two
BGCHR employees, who are Club alumni
and former Youths of the Year, have taken
the Boys & Girls Clubs to these children.
Geo Bonilla and Miguel Alcauter-
Rangel, have established La Casita (Little
House) in a former Weed and Seed
building located at the front of the mobile
home park. After introducing themselves
to each parent in that community and
repeated visits conducted in Spanish, they
have gained the confidence and trust of
each and have succeeded in recruiting close
to 35 youths to the location. As a result of
their tireless efforts, these children are now
faithful attendees to La Casita on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Fridays after school. Basil
Marin, another BGCHR former Youth of
the Year, turned Club employee, is also
bilingual and has contributed to the La
Casita initiative by working with the kids
and helping with the overall programming.
The outreach’s efforts did not
pass unnoticed by the community in
2009-2010. Others stepped forward to
help make La Casita a special place for this
underserved community.
In her culminating pursuit of
the Girl Scouts’ coveted Gold Award,
Mary Kern, a rising senior at Turner
Ashby High School, reached out to the
Boys & Girls Clubs with her community
improvement project last summer in an
effort to transform a small building into a
shining example of what heart can bring to
a community.
Last school year, Mary, who
already holds prestigious Girl Scout
awards that are prerequisites for
the Gold Award, learned about the
Boys & Girls Clubs establishment
of La Casita (little house) as an
extension of the organization to the
Hispanic children living in the Valley
View Mobile Home Park, north
of Harrisonburg. These children attend
Rockingham County Schools, but are
unable to attend the after school program
on their campuses, because of having to
rely solely on school bus transportation
home each day. In its on-going effort to
reach out to the community’s children
who need them most, the Clubs
have taken their youth development
programming to the children and have set
up shop in a former Weed & Seed funded
building in the Mobile Home Park.
When Mary learned about this outreach
effort, she decided that her community
improvement for her run at the Gold
Award had to be La Casita.
She began planning her work
in May, assessing what the physical
location’s needs were, exploring how
she could help meet those needs,
and recruiting volunteers to help her in the
effort. She has used the summer months to
do her fundraising and to gather necessary
supplies and playground equipment for
improving La Casita. Eddie Edwards Signs
provided the signage for the Club.
On August 21, she worked her
plan. Her efforts culminated in a work
day at La Casita that began at 8 a.m. with
12 volunteers on hand to fix the roof,
paint, clean up, and bring in the supplies,
furnishings, curtains and blinds she
gathered for the 30 children to use when at
the club. Mary had a swing set placed on
the site earlier in the summer.
“I have really enjoyed working
on this project. Everyone has been so
helpful. We have a missions team at my
church that has helped me so much, and I
appreciate all they have done already. We
were committed to starting early and going
as long as necessary on that workday to get
the job done.”
Providing a
Club Kids enjoy time on the playgro
with Mary Kern, who pursued La Casita
community improvement project for Girl
The Clubs’ Geo
Bonilla heads up the La Casita outreach
program. When speaking about Mary and
her tireless efforts to plan and implement
this project he said, “I have been totally
blown away by this young lady’s drive,
planning ability, and commitment to make
this project happen. I think it started out as
just a community project for her, but now,
she has taken the whole project and the
kids to her heart. That points to just how
special she truly is.”
When the La Casita youths and
children entered the building after the
first day back in school, they were amazed
to see how Mary and her volunteers had
transformed their Club. From landscaping
to bean bags, La Casita reflected the care,
time and dedication that strangers had
given in an effort to make La Casita a
special place to be after school.

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Club Boys Enjoy Elks’ Summer Camp
Last spring, BGCHR received an
invitation from Harrisonburg Elks
Lodge member Barbara Monger for our boys
and girls to attend the Elks’ summer camp
program in nearby Bath County. Five La
Casita boys accepted the offer to attend the
all-expenses paid camp and had the time of
their lives.
For a week, the
boys experienced summer
in an altogether different
way for them. The hiked,
swam, fished, played
games, canoed, ate smores
and enjoyed sports at the allexpenses
paid camp.
La Casita leader Geo
Bonilla had to do his due
diligence with the boys’
parents in order to attain
permission for them to
attend the camp. Parents
with children served through
La Casita rarely allow their
children to sleep anywhere but
in their own homes. So, the
parents were slow to trust the
idea of entrusting their children
to strangers and sending them
into an unfamiliar mountainous
region miles from home… for a
solid week. Through Geo’s efforts
and the trust he has established with the
children and their families,
the parents allowed their
kids to go. None of these
kids had ever been to
summer camp.
Geo and Courtney,
his wife, picked up the boys
early Sunday morning, July 4
and delivered them to the Elks
Lodge where they boarded a
motor coach for the trip to the
mountains and their summer
adventure.
Shortly after they
returned to Harrisonburg,
Barbara advised BGCHR that
the boys did so well at camp
that they have been invited back
for next year. The La Casita boys
scored between 98 and 100% on
the camp counselors’ camper evaluations.
The boys’ leadership, manners, initiative,
and personal growth during the week earned
them the high scores on their evaluations.
“Scoring so high on the evaluations
is something that doesn’t happen so often.
Some kids go to camp and forget to obey the
rules and do things just to cause problems.
Overall all these campers did very well this
year. I’m so proud of these five kids. I was a
little anxious about them being away from
their parents and getting homesick, but they
all did well.
Makes me feel proud and glad I do
what I do to get the kids to go to camp… so
often people forget that kids need structure
in their lives. If they don’t get it at home,
organizations geared to the needs of low
income kids need to be able to assist. That
helps to save young lives,” said Ms. Monger.
“This is a great story about collaboration,
and hope and opportunity for young people
– which is our product,” said BGCHR
executive director, Todd Bale.
“Barbara and her husband, Roger,
parents of our very own board member and
Club parent, Dixie Garber, expend tireless
effort to help enrich our community and
improve the lives of its people. We are truly
thankful for the work they spearhead for the
Clubs.”
Boys from La Casita prepare for a camping trip
in the mountains. The Elks Lodge kindly provided
funds to make this trip possible.
Club
1996- 1998
Don Kohlenstein
1998-2000
Todd Rhea
2000
Larry Rogers
2001-2004
Vicki Westlake
2005-2007
Karl Waizecker
2008-2010
Andy Huggins
2010-Present
Derrick Whetzel

Our Donors: Extending Generosity to Our Future
Mr. Charles Ahrend
Anonymous
Jeff Arbogast
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew & Andrea Armstrong
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Armstrong
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Bailey
Mrs. Ruth Bak
Ms. Carolyn Baker
Mr. & Mrs. Todd Bale
Mr. & Mrs. Elmer Banks
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Barber
Mr. Brad & Barnett
Mr. Thomas Barr
Mr. Joey Baugher
Mrs. Sandra Baugher
Ms. Sharon Bear
Mr. & Mrs. Howard Beierle
Mr. & Mrs. Greg Bellamy
Mr. Jerry Bennett
Mr. Michael Bergan
Ms. Gail Berrall
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bilbrey
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Bird
Mr. & Mrs. Randall & Brenda Black
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Blakey
Ms. Elaine Blakey
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Boffo
Ms. Suzanne Bothamley
Mrs. Robin Breeden
Ms. Mary Brenneman
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Brenneman
Mr. & Mrs. Craig Brimhall
Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Brinkman
Mr. John Brock
Dr. Ellen Brodersen
Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Brubaker
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Brubaker
Mr. & Mrs. J. Brunk
Ms. Betty Bryant
Mr. Jesse Buchanan
Mr. & Mrs. Earl Budd
Mr. Edwin Bumbaugh
Ms Sandra Burks
Mr. & Mrs. Gary & Lesa Calleo
Mrs. Jane Campbell
Mr. Charles Campbell
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Caran
Mr. Homer Carhart
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Carpenter
Ms. Teresa Carpenter
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Carr Jr.
Dr. Ronald Carrier
Mr. & Mrs. Barry Carroll
Mr. Michael Catuccio Jr.
Ms. Melissa Cave
Mr. Scot Chancy
Mr. & Mrs. John Childress
Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clague
Mr. Henry Clark
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Cline
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Cline
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Cline
Ms. Karyn Collins
Mrs. Vickie Comer
Mr. & Mrs. Richard & Pamela Connellee
Ms. Shaquela Corbin
Mr. James Crawford
Ms. Darien Crews
Ms. Deborah Crider
Mr. Wayne Cripe
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Dawson
Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dean
Mrs. Jackie Dean
Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Amy Dean
Mr. & Mrs. Mensel Dean
R. Scott Denton
Mrs. Amber Depoy
Mr. & Mrs. Jeff & Charity Derrow
Ms. Hunter Derrow
Mr. John Dod
Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Dolan
Ms. Isabelle Dotson
Mr. Kevin Dovel
Mr. Chris Driver
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Driver
Mr. Thomas Duval
Mr. Daniel Early
Mr. John Early
Mr. & Mrs. James Eby
Mr. & Mrs. Garlin Estep
Mr. & Mrs. Terry Eye
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Farnbach
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Finks
Mr. Mike Fiore
Mr. Clinton Fitzgerald
Mr. Steve Flora
Mr. & Mrs. Dee Floyd
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Forbes
Ms. Karen Ford
Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Fox
Mr. James Fries
Ms. Melissa Fulk
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Gabb
Ms. Leiston Gaddis
Mr. Thomas Galvin
Mr. & Mrs. Mike Garber
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Gardner
Dr. Steven Gardner
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Gehring Jr.
Joseph Glick
Mrs. Sharon Glick
Mr. Michael Gochenour
Mr. Benton Gochenour
Mrs. Michelle Gough
Mr. & Mrs. Alan Gould
Milton Gravely
Mr. Stanley Gray
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Greene
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Grist
Ms. Donna Grist
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Grove Jr.
Mr. Doug Gurth
Mr. & Mrs. Clark Hamilton
Linda Hamrick
Mr. L. Wayne Harper
Mr. David Harvey
Ms. Lisa Hawkins
Mr. Edward Hayes
Mr. & Mrs. Kelly Hebdon
Mr. Carl Heins
Mrs. Vera Heitz
Ms. Sylvia Helmuth
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher & Kristin Helsley
Wendell (Sonny) Henkel
Mrs. Jackie Hensley
Mr. Thaddeus Herron
Mr. Kenneth Hess
Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Gail Hess
Mr. & Mrs. Leland & Robin Hicks
Mrs. Anne Hill
Ms. Sarah Kristen Hinkle
Mr. & Mrs. Weldon & Donna Hinkle
Mrs. Wanda Hinkle
Ms. Betty Hitchcock
Mr. James Hiter Jr.
Mrs. Linda Hodge
Dale, Shirley & Shannon Hollen
Mr. John Holloran
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Hoover Jr.
Mrs. Rachel Hottel
Ms. Stephanie Howard
Mr. Andrew Huggins
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas & Bertie Hughes
Mrs. Mary Humphrey
Mr. Kevin Humphries

Mrs. Cindy Hunter
Mr. Carl Jackson
Ms. Jessica James
Mrs. Marilynn Jarrells
Ms. Janet Jefferson
Mr. Jeremiah Jenkins
Mr. Andrew Jenner
Mr. Hadley Jenner
Mr. & Mrs. Deric Johnson
Mrs. Ruth Jones
Ms. Tracey Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Martin &Courtney Judd
Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Judd
Ms. Alice Julias
Ms. Alice Julius
Mr. & Mrs. Hahns Kanode
Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Katz
Mr. & Mrs. Glen & Sandra Kauffman
Mrs. Marie Kauffman
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Kaylor
Mr. Christopher Kearnes
Mr. William Keating
Mr. & Mrs. John Keim
Ms. Maureen Kelly
Mr. Robert Kenney
Vickie Kipps
Mr. David Kistler
Mrs. Camala Kite
Mr. & Mrs. William Kyger Jr.
Mr. Jerry Lam
Mr. & Mrs. Verlin & Jo Lam
Mr. & Mrs. Turner Lantz
Ms. Cara Lawhorne
Mr. Jamie Lawhorne
Mr. Michael Layman
Mr. James Lee
Mr. Deron Lee
Dr. & Mrs. William Lee
Mr. Joel Lehman
Mr. & Mrs. James Levengood
Mr. Merritt Lincoln
Mr. James Liskey
Ms. Hope Lloyd-Stewart
Mrs. Donna Lohr Donna
Ms. Mary Long
Mrs. Daisy Lucas
Mr. & Mrs. Christian & Kathleen Ludica
Ms. Terri Luginbyhl
Mr. Roberto Luna
Mr. & Mrs. Donald & Joyce Macdanel
Ms. Maxine Magri
Ms. Laura Mapp
Mr. David Marino
Ms. Elsie Martin
Mr. & Mrs. James & Bonnie Martin
Mr. & Mrs. Marion Mason
Mr. Kenneth May
Mrs. Angela Mccoy
Ms. Sue McDaniel
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McGloon
Dr.& Mrs. Robert McKearney
Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Georgia Meadows
Mr. & Mrs. Don & Patti Meadows
Mrs. Diane Metzler
Ms. Linda Meyers
Mr. & Mrs. Vern Michael
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Michielli
Ms. Virginia Miller
Mr. & Mrs. Mervyl Miller
Ms. Aimee Miller
Ms. Sandra Miller
Mr. Jim Miller
Ms. Trisha Miller
Mrs. Jan Miller
Ms. Phyllis Miller
Ms. Julie Miller
Mrs. Melisa Miller-Piselli
Mrs. Kathryn Mitchell
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Moats
Mr. & Mrs. R. Monger
Jeremy Mongold
Mr. Donald Moomaw
Ms. Christina Moore
Ms. Katherine Moran
Mr. & Mrs. Albert & Linda Morris
Mr. Anthony Morris
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Morris
Ms. Margaret Morris
Mr. L. Morrison
Mrs. Dawn Muellersman
Mr. & Mrs. David Mullins
Mr. Jim Mumaw
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Myers
Mrs. Heather Myers
Mr. & Mrs. John Neff
Ms. Sue Nelson
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Nemoytin
Ms. Anne Nicholas
Mr. Garry Nichols
Mr. Eric Nickel
Mr. & Mrs. Raul & Marian Oviedo
Mr. Greg Owen
Mr. George Pace
Mrs. Mary Pandolfi
Mrs. Deborah Parkins
Mr. & Mrs. Phil Patterson
Ms. Bonnie Paul
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Payne
Mr. & Mrs. Jathan Payne
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Pence
Mr. Milton Perlman
Mr. Durmont Perry
Mr. & Mrs. David Peters
Ms. Phyllis Peterson
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pippert
Mr. Lanny Plogger
Ms. Rebecca Powell
Mr. & Mrs. Edward Powell
Mr. Shane Powers
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Powers
Mrs. Blaire Price
Mr. & Mrs. W. Price
Mrs. Kitty Purcell
Nikoo Rafat
Ms. Bev Randolph
Mr. David Rao
Ms. Catherine Ray
Mr. & Mrs. David & Beth Raynes
Mrs. Wendy Reardon
Mr. Winston Rhodes Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John Robertson
Mr. & Mrs. Billy Robinson Jr.
Mr. James Robinson
Ms. Kathleen Roderick
Mr. Justin Rohrer
Ms. Carla Rollandini
Dr. & Mrs. Linwood Rose
Ms. Shirley Rossi
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Ruck
Mr. & Mrs. James & Lisa Ruhlman
Ms. Jennifer Sampson
Mrs. Lisa Sanders
Ms. Patricia Sayre
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Schikman
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Scott
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Scott
Mr. & Mrs. Jared Scripture
Dr. James Sease
Ms. Judith Sedtal
Ms. Marcia See
Mr. Donald Shank
Mr. Ben Shearer
Mrs. Tammy Shearer
Mr. Jerry Sheets
Mrs. Elizabeth Shenk
Mr. William Shepard
Ms. Sheila Shields
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas and Kathy Shifflett
Mr. William Shifflett
Mr. Stacy Shiflet
Ms. Mary Shiflet
William Shilling
Ms. Ellen Shomo
Ms. Annabelle Shortell
Mrs. Jennifer Showalter
Mrs. Sarah Showalter
Mr. & Mrs. Fred & Carol Showker
Ms. Charlotte Showker

Mr. Bradley Shy
Mrs. Kyla Silver
Dr. Beverly Silver
Mr. A.J. Simmons
Ms. Polly Simmons
Mr. Howard Sink
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth & Deborah Sions
Mr. James Sipe Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony & Susan Sites
Mrs. Donna Skelly
Mr. Anthony Slater
Mr. & Mrs. Joel Slocum
Dick & Diane Smith
Victor Smith II
Ms. Tamara Smith
Mrs. Christina Smith
Mr. & Mrs. William Smith
Mrs. Audrey Smith
Ms. Phyllis Sonner
Mr. & Mrs. John Sowers
Ms. Judy Spahr
Ms. Brenda Spencer
Mrs. Catherine Steger
Mr. Mark Sterling
Mr. & Mrs. Edward & Virginia Sterling
The Arts Council of the Valley
Belmont Community Ruritan Club Zone 2
Blue Ridge Community College,
Student Gov. Assoc.
Broadway Timberville Ruritan Club
Cedar Grove United Methodist
Dayton United Methodist Church
Exchange Club of Harrisonburg
Fairview Church of the Brethren
Faith Alive Fellowship
Garbers Church of the Brethren Witness
Commission
Golden Girls LLC
Harrisonburg City Public Schools
Harrisonburg Mennonite Church
Ms. Florence Stevens
Mr. & Mrs. Karl Stoltzfus
Mr. & Mrs. Giles Stone
Mr. Butch Strawderman
Mr. James Strawderman
Mr. Mark Streiff
Mr. Anthony Streiff
Mr. Kenneth Surber
Mrs. Sherri Swecker
Ms. Melinda Swisher
Mr. Hobert Texiere
Ms. Amy Thompson
Mrs. Rhonda Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Towers
Terry Townsend
Mrs. Gregory Troxell
Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy & Tonya Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Turner
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas & Donna Tutwiler
Mr. & Mrs. William Tyler
Dr. and Mrs. T. Keith Vest
Mr. John Vincie III
Mr. Steven Walk
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wampler Jr.
Mr. &Mrs. Steven Watts
Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist Social
Justice Committee
JMU Breakdancing Club
JMU College of Business Diversity Council
Least of These Ministries
Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran
Church
McGaheysville Ruritan Club
Mt. Horeb Presbyterian Church Joy Circle
Northfield Estates Homeowners
Association
Plains Elementary School Jeans Day
Pleasant Valley Elementary
Port Republic Ruritan Club
QUOTA International
Mr. & Mrs. Jerrel Weaver
Ms. Jennifer Welsh
Mr. & Mrs. John Wenger
Mrs. Helen Wetsel
Mr. Brad Wheeler
Mr. & Mrs. Derrick Whetzel
Ms. Marlene Wilbarger
Mrs. Judy Williams
Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Wilson
Ms. Cynthia Wishon
Mr. Dennis Witt II
Mr. & Mrs. William Wood
Mr. Charles Wright
Mr. Richard Yancey
Ms. Erma Yeakel
Ms. Carol Yetzer
Mrs. Shannon Yoder
Mr. Edward Young
Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Zimmerman
Ms. Susie Zirkle
Mr. Robert Zirkle Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Zullo
Dr. Robert Zullo
Organizations That Give: Impact Beyond Their Walls
Rockingham Rotary Club Inc.
Rotary Club of Harrisonburg
Sanctuary United Church of Christ
Shenandoah Valley Ladies Auxiliary
Shenandoah Valley United Inc
Singers Glen Ruritan Club
South River Elementary PTA
St. James United Methodist Women
United Way of Harrisonburg &
Rockingham Co.
United Way, National
Valley Greeters Newcomers Club
Virginia Association of Retired Educators
Wayland Womans Club
Wayne Harper Local Charities