Interview: Mike McGrath, CEO, River City Inclusive Gym River City Inclusive Gym is based in the Richmond area and serves athletes of all ages with disabilities. They provide a safe and positive environment where children, teens, and adults with disabilities can improve social skills, motor skills...
Interview: Bob Hickling, Celebration Director for Will Grant Celebrations This week’s interview highlights the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association – including events put on by the organization, adaptation through Covid, plans for 2022 events (including local to Fredericksburg), and ways the community can get involved. [audio mp3="https://wper.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/05212022-CM-BGEA.mp3"][/audio]...
Interview: Anne Miller, President & Executive Director of HEAV This week we are speaking with Anne Miller, President & Executive Director of HEAV about homeschool opportunities, resources, and activies in Virginia. She covers a lot of ground on the various resources parents can tap into whether...
Interview 1: Taylor Beck, Manager, Partnerships, VA Ready Virginia Ready was created in 2020 as a way to help upskill the workforce by partnering with local businesses and colleges to offer certification programs to Virginia residents. Taylor discusses how it got started, how it’s grown over...
This week we are sharing some great work being done to help Ukrainian refugees, but also other causes that impact our community in big ways! First we are joined by Bob Lazaro with the Northern Virginia Regional Commission, which heads up many efforts in the...
Interview 1: Kim Southerland, PRC Metro Richmond Kim discusses the services that PRC Metro Richmond provides to the community – inclusive of resources for expecting parents, counseling, and medical services. We also talk about the upcoming Walk for Life on April 30, 2022 and how the...
Interview 1: Mary Beth Waldeck, Remington Community Garden Mary Beth Waldeck discussed the upcoming Get Healthy Fauquier health fair coming to Remington, VA on April 30, 2022. The fair brings many local vendors that will be educating the public on all aspects of health – diet/nutrition,...
This interview focuses on one regional Chamber of Commerce, yet many of the services discussed can be found with many other local chambers. The discussion focused on how the Chamber serves members through connections to each other and the community at large, events held throughout...
This week we are featuring Wings of Hope Ranch, a Christian-based ministry that rescues neglected horses and rehabilitates them to provide a horse ministry to children facing conflicts or challenges, free of charge. We are joined by Julia Clark, Executive Director and Alison Boyd, Founding...
This week we have the pleasure of talking with Valerie Bellamy and Madison Argyle about Compassion First - an organization that helps to fight trafficking. While much of the work focuses on women in Indonesia, there is a lot of work in the US that...
