These local celebrity waiters are set to entertain guests as waiters at the fun-spirited Celebrity Waiter Luncheon on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Park Lane Tavern at 1 Towne Centre Boulevard in Fredericksburg.

Funding to local community programs for the 2017-18 funding year can be allocated through donor directed designations, Community Impact, and Capacity Building grants.

The grant will go toward materials and tools to make home repairs needed by area families.

Prizes are given to volunteers who have shown creativity, initiative, leadership and dependability while helping individuals with behavioral health concerns or developmental disability

Youth in Philanthropy (YIP), established by The Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region in 2003, empowers local students to make changes in their community and respond to the issues they feel most passionately about.

Groups give diapers, supplies, toys

The foundation’s review committee selected Germanna’s project, Paving the Way to Completion: Using Meta-Majors to Streamline the Path to Student Success.

“Our summer cooking camps are designed to help give kids a great foundation in meal preparation and in eating healthy,” says Dr. Nimali Fernando, a Fredericksburg, Virginia-based pediatrician who founded The Doctor Yum Project. “The kids have a great time, learn about nutrition, and they gain some valuable skills along the way.”

IRS-certified Rappahannock United Way staff and volunteers filed 2,012 tax returns, saving local residents $397,000 in tax preparation fees this year.

The Fairy Godmother Project is having a day of giving today. (We’ve been running around and didn’t see it until now!)

From Thurman Brisben Center Employees from Intuit worked hard on May 5, to organize and file older Brisben records, helping increase the efficiency of the Center's record-keeping. Afterward, the volunteers made a delicious taco lunch for our residents and staff!