Our physical address is:
701 Clay St.
Lynchburg, VA 24504
Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 1125
Lynchburg, VA 24505
Phone: 434.846.6098
Fax: 434.846.1040
Email: ioa@ntelos.net
Office Hours: Monday-Friday
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Emergency Assistance
Provide perishable food
(butter, bread) and toiletries for pantry
Teach money management
skills in a classroom setting.
Be available to provide advocacy in the form of budgeting help, etc. while the above classes are being held.
Be an advocate for a family
- this involves working with the family on an ongoing basis, providing
transportation, babysitting, filling out forms, etc.
Emergency Fuel Assistance
Program for the Elderly (EFAPE)
Help elderly with heating
fuel
Furniture and Furnishings
Need men and/or women to
pick up donated furniture and deliver to warehouse on Jefferson St.
Donate good, usable
furniture - especially beds and help advertise this need
Accompany Furniture Program
Coordinator on home visits
Accompany Coordinator to
warehouse while clients pick up furniture
Visually Impaired Program
Drive participants back and
forth to class. We currently
have requests from 3 who would like to join our class but have no
transportation.
Help sell VIP
baskets/candle holders at your church or place of employment, if allowed
Provide lunch for the VIP
group.
Progressive Release
Buy cassette tapes and an
age appropriate paperback book and donate for incarcerated parents to read
and mail to their children.
Type letters inmates have
written to the youth at Juvenile
Detention
Center
(JuV) saying why they do not want to go to jail.
These will be published in a book.
We will supply you with the format to be used.
Provide mentors to adults
leaving jail who have graduated from the 12-week class we teach.
Mentors will be trained.
Life Skills for the Street
Smart
Host a community service
project where youth at the Juvenile
Detention
Center
can work away from the center
Miscellaneous Opportunities
Promote IOA to your
congregation and community
Prepare a fundraiser within
your congregation or with other congregations in your area to benefit IOA's
programs.
Participate in IOA's annual
fundraiser
Research grant
possibilities for IOA
Prepare mass mailings in
our office - 3 or 4 times per year
Serve on a committee of IOA:
Finance, Members and Friends, Programs and Partnerships, Fund
Development, Governance
Mow grass, weed eat, trim
shrubbery at IOA office on Clay St
.
Use your creativity to
write articles for the newsletters - we will provide the information for the
article
Pray for our work and for the people we serve
Make a
difference!
If you can help
with any of these, contact us at (434) 846-6098.