National Night Out in Hillside!

We had a blast at National Night Out in Hillside Court last night! Lots of people showed up for food, fun, and to learn about comunity organizations. The police came out and although the kids were hesitant to talk to them at first, they soon were asking a million questions and peeking into the squad [...]

Tuesdays at Embrace

You are probably wondering what exactly goes on at our offices every day, so we would like to fill you in on just one of the many things we do! Every Tuesday for about an hour and a half or so, we go to Hillside and play games with the kids in the neighborhood, just [...]

Photos from Horseback Riding

Outside of Fox Horn Stables
On Friday, July 31, we were invited to bring a few of our friends from Hillside to Fox Horn Stables to ride horses. We were able to bring four of our youth from Hillside Court, and the daughter of one of our Americorps members along on our adventure. None of us [...]

Looking for Information About the Chair Affair?

The 2nd Annual CARITAS Furniture Bank Chair Affair will be held on November 14, 2009 at Charles Luck Studio at 7 p.m. For more information, you can visit www.caritasworks.org and also, start keeping your eyes peeled for www.CaritasChairAffair.org which should be up with all the information you need soon!

Photos from the cook out!

On Saturday the 18th, Eikon came to the 3rd Ave. house to finish up the painting and for a cook out! They did a wonderful job adding the finishing touches to the work the Impact Richmond group had done. The cookout launched our new partnership with one of Eikon’s missional communities. The community Flicker of [...]

Thank you to Impact Richmond!

And an extra special thank you to Mike Powers who coordinated all of these wonderful youth to paint the Embrace House on 3rd Avenue! They worked really hard scraping and painting  all of last week to beautify the house, in which one of our Americorps members, Charles Fitzgerald, lives. It is now a pretty light [...]

Global Youth and Missions Day

On Saturday, April 25th Embrace Richmond held a Youth project here for Americorps’ Youth and Global Missions Day. 20 youth showed to help put together head boards and foot boards for our transitioning homeless clients. The youth were split into groups and raced against one another to see which group could construct the most head [...]

Global Youth Day

Embrace Richmond Birthday Celebration Gala

Mark your calendars!!! April 19th is the date for our Birthday Celebration which is once again being hosted by Maggiano’s.  More details will following in the coming months.   At this time we are asking for donated items for our silent and live auctions. Contact Andrea Richardson, andrea@embracerichmond.org if you have items you would like to donate. We are looking forward to [...]