Listed below are ways you can support the Interfaith Outreach Association. Please let us know if you would like to donate an item on the list, or if you would like to volunteer your time to help with one of our programs. Thank you!
Donate Money
Financial Donations by Credit Card or PayPal account on secure PayPal page.
DONATE TIME
- Assist with the organization, maintenance, and operation of the furniture warehouse
- Accompany Outreach Director on home visits
- Be a mentor to adults leaving jail who have graduated from our Progressive Release program; training will be provided
- Volunteer to assist with life skills classes in the jail or assist with writing letters of hope to those who are incarcerated
- Volunteer to drive individuals who are blind to medical appointments and the grocery store
- Help prepare mass mailings in our office — 3 or 4 times per year
- Organize a work crew to build a ramp or do simple home repairs for our Rebuilds program
- Work IOA information booths at festivals and/or other special occasions
DONATE ITEMS
- Good, usable furniture — especially mattresses, box springs, dressers, and kitchen tables
- Household cleaning supplies (i.e. sponges, disinfectant cleaners, buckets, brooms, dustpans, mops etc. — to be given to clients when they receive furniture)
- Individual (local) bus passes for clients released from jail
- Stamps and #10 envelopes to help with monthly mailings
- Toiletries for our client hygiene bags
- Copy paper, post it notes, pens, tape, staples, paper clips, 3 tab file folders, white-out, binder clips, garbage bags, Clorox wipes
If you can help with any of these, call 434-846-6098 or
Become a Corporate Sponsor
We are so grateful to the many foundation and businesses that support our programs with in kind services and financial gifts! Contact us at 434.846.6098 if you would like to become a part of our great corporate support team.
Corporate Sponsers
Automated Conveyor Systems
Bank of the James
BB&T Scott and Stringfellow
BWXT
Candler Oil Company
CapTrust
Carrington Family Foundation
Change for Change
City of Lynchburg CARES
Community Development Block Grant
Dodson Pest Control
The Easley Foundation
Emergency Food and Shelter Program
Estates and Consignments
Framatome
Genworth Foundation
The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation
Joyner Engineer Trainers
KVA Foundation
LSC Communications
Lynchburg Ready Mix Company
NB Handy
Old Dominion Box Company Foundation
Pacific Life Foundation
PIP Printing and Marketing
The Plymale Foundation
Presbytery of the Peaks
Schewel Home
Thrivent Foundation
United Way of Central Virginia
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
