Arlington Nonprofits and Charities

Educators Rising has turned my passion into purpose. It has served as a clear pathway into the world of education, giving me opportunities to grow while surrounded by a community that consistently supports me. Its impact is felt from the local to national level, and I’m proud to be part of a team experiencing that reach firsthand. It offers leadership, competition, and expertise that feel unmatched. Through Educators Rising, I’ve challenged myself and found comfort along the way!

Thank you TAPS for helping me heal. Your support during a difficult period was very helpful. Meeting other survivors who understood the loss we all shared was beyond helpful. For me TAPS provided a healing balm to a very sore wound. Once again, thank you TAPS for all your help and healing.

This is the leading nonprofit for people with asthma and allergies. I am someone who has a severe food allergy - when you reach out to their advocacy staff they listen. I was a proud volunteer for five years, and I was excited when they helped lead lobbying efforts to pass Section 368 to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2025. I had a severe allergic reaction when I was 19 on an airplane and alongside this organization, I was able to get federal law updated. For the size of the organization, they have a HUGE impact.

I was looking for a way to help students with limited financial resources to have an opportunity for music education. I searched out MusicLink and loved everything I read about it. Quickly, I registered to teach and have found it very rewarding to see students and families who appreciate and benefit from the opportunity. So many good learnings come from playing instruments and the sense of accomplishment in students reinforces all that MusicLink does. Thank you MusicLink!

AAFA is wholeheartedly committed to improving outcomes for patients and families with asthma and allergies. They elevate the patients voice and support cutting-edge work in asthma and allergy management to ensure it centers these voices. It is an honor to partner with them!

The lady I spoke to was one of the most rude women Ive ever spoken to on the phone. "What you want?" "Whats your prollem"? Condescending tone and impatient. <br><br>My life has come to a stand still and there's no reason why after being combat injured myself I would be assigned a agent to review my case and next day they go on leave for over 2 weeks. That is the TOTAL OPPOSITE of EMERGENCY RELIEF. Its so sad too because the President of the entire organization was my Brigade Command Sergeant Major. Went on a mission with him in Ghormach Afghanistan but apparently me being proud of that small coincidence is somehow me trying to get favoritism. Which it isn't. I have zero people in my life. Not a single one I can text or call which is a TRUE indicator I live with and have lived with severe ptsd for over a decade. But the guys who didnt lose something physically arent worthy so dont even bother applying if you can walk or talk.<br><br>Thanks AER<br>You Da real MVP

Best children's program for miles around. In Encore, kids learn all ins and outs of theater, leadership, management, and technical theater skills. There is something to get involved for any child, whether they want to sing, act, dance, write scripts, work lights or sound, or understand how marketing and addressing community works. Encore is fantastic at fostering an entire confident child, whether they plan to continue theater beyond childhood and adolescence or not. For my son, Encore is family. This is the place for learning, for being creative, for making friendship, and for being and being accepted and appreciated for what you are. I am very thankful for all the experiences and opportunities my son has gotten at Encore over the years.

I would say no they (March Of Dimes) aren’t a good charity because of a personal experience. My son was born at 23 weeks and the only thing they did was give me flowers literally nothing else. After my son was born I wanted to do the walk so I did but didn’t raise the amount that they required so when I went to the walk I didn’t get a t-shirt with their logo because I didnt raise enough money and my son is a reason why they even exist so please please please don’t donate to them. Honestly there is nothing no one can do to stop premature birth so it’s a scam for money off the backs of the weak. Smh ????????????‍♀️

From my perspective, I can financially support many worthy causes. But, I choose RRCA because they have a long history of support for all levels of runners. In addition, RRCA has always remained focused on the many levels of competitive and non-competitive running. They have a wonderful Kid's Run the Nation program. Whenever I've needed their help, they have been there for me and my other active club members.

PFSE is a fantastic organization. I love that they offer so many hands-on resources and activities and provide food safety curricula for all ages. The MythBusters page is my favorite resource to use when educating adults, and it is extremely helpful that this resource offers the information in Spanish.

This rescue is stellar. I’d been supporting them with annual donations through my work and when our beloved cockers passed, we went to OBG and inquired about Carly. Carly was in a foster home and very well cared for. She’d had medical issues when she was found on the streets and a shelter called OBG. OBG took care of her medical issues and required adopters to continue feeding her prescription dog food. I agreed and the foster family gave us some great tips (freeze treat meatballs made from the prescription canned food!! She loves them!!). The fosters allowed us to adopt her. We didn’t have a leash so they sent her home with us with a collar, leash, her little blanket and a stuffed toy. I kept in touch with the foster family- they truly worry over every pup. Carly still has the blanket and stuffy 8 years later❤️ The whole experience was wonderful and I’d do it again in a heartbeat. These folks are so dedicated to the pups. I love them all!

World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (WCRF/AICR) appears to be a very clever scam. They produce a report every 10 years that basically just takes other people study data and then words it in a way that could make many think that they were somehow involved in the original research. They use their own slightly different criteria to then review the data, but this effort offers nothing to the original research conclusions. All it does is try to make this organisation appear to be legitimate in its analysis. People would be better served going directly to the original research and not reading this groups re-hashing of their data. WCRF/AICR, two organisations? Or maybe the one organisation trying to sound more broad and comprehensive. Alarm bells are ringing over their tactics

My wife and I have adopted three bunnies from the AWLA, have fostered several more, are volunteers at the shelter, and do wildlife transport to rehabbers! The caring work they do for so many animals, both domestic and wildlife, is truly incredible. Their staff are deeply committed to the welfare of our animal community, and it’s inspiring to spend time with them. We love the AWLA!

This organization has a unique and critical mission providing a voice on behalf of farmers and ranchers across the entire animal agriculture community with key stakeholders. Recognizing that farming and ranching is part of our nation's critical infrastructure, and recognizing less than 2% of the U.S. public is directly involved in producing our food, the Alliance helps farmers prepare for threats, trends, policies, etc. that could negatively impact their ability to do business. The organization is very intentional with every dollar spent to ensure programs and services align with its mission, and it has a long track record of ensuring more than 90% of every dollar goes toward programs and services supporting farmers and ranchers. A great organization supporting a great cause!

This is an extremely woke organization. If you dare say anything that proves their woke thinking is harmful, prepare for them to come after you.

I just want to stay warm! This winter has been horrible for me. I never could stand the cold, but it seems this year is the absolute worst!<br>This is my first encounter with NAMI and hopefully they will help me get through this horrendous grieving process.

The Arlingtones are a great community a cappella group based in Arlington, Virginia! From the moment I walked in, I felt welcomed and included. The singers are friendly and really helpful with any musical questions. During the winter, they kick into holiday mode, but performances are all year long around the DMV, including a special appearance at an upcoming Commanders game! All are welcome to join, regardless of musical knowledge. Come join a rehearsal!

I just say "ditto" to other contributors who are bothered by the extremely wasteful paper that USO throws at its donors. I don't think the paper campaigns encourage more donating. They definitely encourage hoarding of which many members are challenged. Spend the money on the soldiers! Keep our mailboxes uncluttered with useless mailings.

I was gifted one of the Annual Conference scholarships that they give to people to attend ANC. I was very excited to be given the opportunity to expand my education of the way SNA works but it also allowed me to be able to meet new people and learn new things from them as well as from the conference itself. The people that I worked with when I volunteered my time to helping the SNF booth were very friendly and easy going people to work with. I would volunteer more with this group if I were needed to any time.

This has been our experience with the Seacadets. <br> At first, my husband and I were impressed with our local Seacadet unit. My son was part of CAP, and felt like he really didn't learn much from them. Mind you, both of these organizations are ran by volunteers. <br>My son tried out CAP around six months and then heard about Seacadets. He wants to join the Navy when he's eighteen, so he decided to join and leave CAP. <br>The fees for Seacadets cost more than CAP and you also have to pay for advanced training as well. <br>My son really liked the program at the beginning. As time went on, it seemed like they weren't informing us about meetings and not telling my son what he needed to learn. They said their wasn't a book to go by to learn from. <br>He enjoyed the meetings when he was there, but then they started talking about advanced training and that he needed to have it so he could move up. <br>He is seventeen, so he want be able to go in with rank since he joined so late. We had no idea this program was even available in our area when we moved. <br>Since then, communication with the group is very poor. I have taken him to meetings before and no one is there! <br>Also, I have a feeling they will start leaving him out of certain activities because he wasn't able to go to the advanced training because he started a job. <br>I have no idea if things are going to get better. I guess we'll have to wait and see. <br>I'm not putting down the whole organization. Perhaps if we were with another unit things would have gone smoother. If it doesn't improve I'm out of my time, my son's effort, and money. One thing I'll it least get back is my sanity!

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I'm grateful for all the work SBA does that no other nonprofit can do for those living with Spina Bifida. I've had the privilege of meeting some of their staff and i've never met a group of professionals more dedicated. The relationships they have with doctors in the community are what help shape the future of care and well-being for people like my son.

This organization is a disaster. It does great work despite it's arrogant executive director, who is never on time and takes volunteers and staff for granted. Poorly managed. The Executive Director treats staff and volunteers poorly.

While this organization has a long and distinguished history of providing needed service to homeless families in Arlington and Alexandria VA, I find it a bit strange and somewhat concerning that no financial information nor 990 reports have been published by this organization since the FY 17 program year. Hopefully, the financial information concerning the soon to end FY19 program year will be published as soon as possible, thus allowing prospective donors like myself to make better informed judgements about if and how much of a contribution to make to this organization.

I joined NumbersUSA many years ago when, as a liberal, I was looking for an organization that reflected my concerns about the effect of our high rate of immigration on population increase and on low wages and high unemployment among blue collar and particularly black Americans without attacking or demeaning immigrants. I read a fine interview with Roy Beck in the New York Times and immediately joined. NumbersUSA explicitly condemns hostile views of immigrants and focuses its attention entirely on immigration policy. If you have followed Roy Beck's blogs on the NumbersUSA website you know that he has a lifelong commitment to civil rights and a particular concern for the economic well being of the most vulnerable Americans. As a former environmental journalist he is also concerned about the population increase being driven by immigration. NumbersUSA, as its website says, in concerned with the immigration rate, not who the immigrants are or where they come from. I'm an Old Left, Bernie Sanders liberal who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, and according to the New York Times, so did Roy Beck (Davis, 2014). NumbersUSA is the best source on the web for real immigration news (no, they don't print stuff about crimes by illegal immigrants, but they do report on bills introduced in Congress). NumbersUSA is a responsible and honest voice in an important national debate.<br><br>Davis, Julie Hirschfeld, 2014. Genial Force Behind Bitter Opposition to Immigration Overhaul: Roy H. Beck Leads a Grass-Roots Army. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/us/politics/roy-h-beck-quietly-leads-a-grass-roots-army.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article&_r=0