Nonprofits

Funded through patrons and donors, the project total is expected to come in at around $650,000. The century-old theater remains open for business while the balcony seats are being replaced.

A month-long trek on the Camino de Santiago in Spain helped lead Cavallo out of retirement and to the helm of the museum on Monument Avenue.

Urban Hope has started work to turn the former Tenth Street Baptist Church at 2300 Fairmount Ave. into the nonprofit’s new headquarters and four apartments that it will rent out.

The proposed 50-room facility comes as a successor to the RMHC’s previous plans for a 60-room facility in the now-abandoned plans by VCU Health to redevelop the site of the former Public Safety Building.

Local nonprofits such as Virginia Repertory Theatre and Henricus Historical Park spent 2024 dealing with money troubles, while others like VPM, Feed More and Lewis Ginter were in various phases of major expansions.

The nonprofit that runs Henricus Historical Park is embarking on the project while continuing its search for additional funding support to make up a shortfall created earlier this year.

The nonprofit distributed 100,000 diapers to families in central Virginia last month and is on track to support 10,000 children this year.

Weeks after a public plea for donations to prevent it from shutting down, Virginia Repertory Theatre is entertaining a sale of the former Scottish Rite Temple it acquired just two years ago as it continues to look for ways to cut costs. 

The Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of Virginia recently purchased the old BB&T building at 3214 Skipwith Road for $3.6 million. The nonprofit will relocate from its current home near Willow Lawn.

The nonprofit is now operating out of its new distribution warehouse at 8020 Villa Park Drive, having completed relocating its facilities from its former home on Rhoadmiller Street near The Diamond.