Each year, thousands of individuals and businesses donate to the annual United Way campaign held between late August and December. Funds generated from the campaign are used to support programs that address the area’s highest priorities in the areas of education and youth development, basic needs, and economic opportunity.
Each supported organization or program listed below produces and reports on outcomes that make a measurable difference in people’s lives. This year’s supported agencies are expected to create positive impacts for nearly 15,000 people in Danville and Pittsylvania County.
Read Dan River
Students will read at grade level by the 3rd grade.
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After-School Tutoring
For more than 20 years, the Danville Church and Community Tutorial program has helped over 5,000 youth to strengthen their subject comprehension, boost their confidence and build important learning skills. Located at 37 different church sites in Danville and Pittsylvania County, each year more than 450 youth are provided tutorial services free of charge from volunteer tutors. The program serves any kindergartner through 12th grade student in Danville-Pittsylvania County who is struggling with grade-level requirements in reading, writing, math or science; or needs assistance with homework assignments.
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Read Your Future
A Community Invested in Education and Danville Public Schools. We raise awareness, financial, and in-kind support for public education across all sectors of our community. We direct that support to learning and teaching activities not fully supported by tax dollars or expected to be delivered directly by DPS.
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Communication/Speech Services
Danville Speech & Hearing Center provides the highest quality speech-language pathology services at the lowest possible cost to citizens in need in the Dan River Region, enabling each to attain his/her optimal communication skills.
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Elementary Reading Mentoring
The Early Literacy Book Buddies program helps elementary students who met the PALS (Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening) benchmark, but are still struggling readers, improve their reading skills.
Educate Dan River
All youth receive the support needed for on-time graduation
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One-to-One Mentoring
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Scouting
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After-school Character Development
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Danville Area provides one-on-one mentoring relationships for hundreds of local school children. The children are positively impacted each year in the areas of character development, academic performance, attitude about school, classroom behavior, relationships with peers, homework preparedness and ability to avoid substance abuse.
The Academic Success programs of Boys & Girls Club of the Danville Area (BGCDA) promotes life-long learning by supporting academic success today, setting higher education/training and career goals for tomorrow and providing access to tools and technology that prepare youth for the future.
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Individualized Cost Reduction Program
An early childhood education program located in Southside Virginia and has served the Danville- Pittsylvania area since 1992. Just Kids is an early childhood education program with a focus on the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of children birth through 4 years of age.
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Drug Prevention Services
The Regional Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention (RASAP) Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is a program of the RASAP Coalition and serves as a voice for the youth residing in Danville and Pittsylvania County. YAC youth (9th through 12th graders) serve in an advisory capacity, providing valuable insight and guidance to strategies developed by RASAP in the prevention of youth substance abuse. Divided into two groups, urban and rural, the groups meet once a month to review local youth substance abuse data and develop, implement and evaluate prevention strategies that target youth. Often these strategies are carried out in the schools and have included a social norms campaign on Underage Drinking, an “Arrive Alive, Don’t Drink and DrIvE” campaign during school prom week, a “Marijuana I Don’t Wanna…why would you?” campaign, and “What’s in Your Vape?” messages.
Get Healthy Dan River
All individuals have their basic needs met and maintain health/wellness across their life span
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Disaster Relief Services
Following a disaster, American Red Cross of Blue Ridge Virginia assistance helps families become financially stable.
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Elementary Reading Mentoring
To be the leader in providing prehospital care to the sick and injured. It is also our goal to provide superior training to our members and members of other agencies throughout the community, while providing opportunity for personal growth, career development and advancement for those who work in the EMS field.
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Affordable Home Ownership
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit organization that helps families build and improve places to call home. We believe affordable housing plays a critical role in strong and stable communities.
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Healthy Families Programs
The DPCS Healthy Families program connects new partners with a variety of services, including a home visitor who supports the family before the child is born up until the child enters school. The home visiting model is designed to work with families who may have a history of trauma, intimate partner violence, mental health and/or substance abuse issues. Healthy Families has been proven to reduce child abuse and neglect and increase children's access to routine health care and immunizations. This program aligns with our goal for Get Healthy Dan River.
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Homeless Shelter
We are a faith-based, temporary homeless shelter serving Danville, Virginia and Pittsylvania County. For the past 10 years, the House of Hope has provided a safe refuge for those who don’t have a place to stay and who are in need of transitional assistance. We are conveniently located in downtown Danville.
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Utility and Rent Assistance
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Services for Aging Americans
Area Agencies on Aging provide services established and funded through the federal Older Americans Act. Some services are designed for the care of frail or disabled elders. Others are intended to keep relatively healthy people strong and active.
As we age, new challenges appear. The time comes when we have to think about not driving, and we'll need a social network so we don't become isolated. We might begin to need some help with everyday activities like bathing, shopping, vacuuming, or cooking.
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Crisis and Income Legal Services
The Crisis and Income Protection (CIP) program assists families and individuals in cases that increase or preserve income, or provide crisis relief related to housing. It offers critical services to residents at a time they need it most and when there is nowhere else to turn.
Financially Stable Dan River
Individuals and families are financially stable,
self-sufficient, and no one lives in poverty
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Residential Care
The Arc of Southside's Residential program provides everyday-life, support services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD), ensuring that they are healthy, safe and free from exploitation, institutionalization or homelessness, with the primary goal of empowering them to be independent, contributing members of their community.
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Mission 180 – Homeowner Repair and Landlord Tenant Education Program
To improve the quality of life of Danville residents by empowering neighbors and community associations, encouraging local investment, and building neighborhoods of opportunity and choice.
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Workforce Adjustment Training
Goodwill's Work Adjustment Training program (WAT) seeks to build work skills and experience for individuals with barriers to employment, including returning citizens (former felons), limited English speakers, dislocated workers and individuals with disabilities. WAT contributes to the income of participants not only during training through paid work time but also through the increased potential for improved employment outcomes after completion.