Bridges is seeing more Arlington families on the brink – housing costs are high, wages aren’t keeping up, and families exiting homelessness still lack a stable income. Their project aims to strengthen their already-operating wraparound model by adding a more robust workforce-development component, including career coaching, financial literacy, and supportive services (such as childcare), so parents can attend trainings.

Casa walks with immigrant families in the Chirilagua neighborhood through long-term, relational ministry, offering after-school programs, mentoring, family engagement, and leadership development. Their dream is to expand those programs so that kids and their parents can participate, especially families new to the area or facing economic stress. It intentionally strengthens the “whole family” model – not just tutoring the children, but helping parents get connected, resourced, and in community.

RILA provides free, reliable immigration legal services to people who cannot afford representation – asylum seekers, survivors, and folks fleeing violence in their home country. To help them keep that high-quality, trauma-informed legal support going as demand rises, their dream is for Grace to fund their attorney’s hours to prepare 10 asylum briefs in the next year. It allows them to handle more complex cases, train more volunteers, keep vulnerable immigrants from falling through the cracks, and ensure no one faces immigration court alone.

ABB runs a free after-school program for high-risk, mostly English-learning students. It provides them tutoring, care, and a stable relationship with adults who love Jesus and love kids. They’ve seen the program work and bear fruit in the neighborhood, so now the hope is to expand it to reach more students/families in South Arlington. It’s very much a “church + school + neighborhood” partnership!

JMI Moldova is serving over 850 orphans and vulnerable kids with its programs, but their vehicles are old and unreliable. Their big hope for next year is to get safe, dependable vans so staff and volunteers can reach kids, deliver supplies, and transport young people to programs. Without vehicles, their ministry slows down; but with them, it can expand and bear fruit.

JMI trains pastors in remote Amazon River communities in Brazil. Pastors who are faithful but are extremely under-resourced and do not have formal training. This project aims to furnish a new training room in their office, where jungle pastors and community leaders will come to receive biblical training, leadership development, and materials to sustain their local churches in hard-to-reach places. Strengthening the pastor and community leaders = strengthening the whole river community!

These are the actual boat trips into the Amazon to reach communities that can’t be reached by road. Local teams bring food, care, the gospel, and follow-up to people who would otherwise be isolated. It’s practical (supplies, medicine) and spiritual (discipleship, encouragement). This project aims for the local team to lead more of those trips in a year - deepening relationships with local churches and continuing to serve the most remote villages consistently, not just once.

Comunidad is doing long-haul, hyperlocal discipleship/community work (tutoring, leadership, parent engagement) in Falls Church – at Seven Corners, and now building out their second location at Kingsley Commons. For them to continue to serve our neighbors with high-impact educational and relational programming, their wish is to fully set up their new location and expand the workforce development and classes in efforts to engage more parents, so the community transformation is family-wide, not just child-wide.

Doorways serves survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Arlington County, giving them safety, housing, counseling, and a path to stability. One of their programs is operating a Safehouse that needs a generator suitable for the size of the property. This practical need strengthens their trauma-informed services so adults and kids can actually heal, not just survive.

ABB also runs a food pantry in South Arlington to serve families who are food insecure in an otherwise wealthy county. Their wish is for Grace to fully fund one month’s expenses of the food pantry, so that they can keep that pantry stocked and operating well as they serve over 1,000 families weekly in their location.

As Rock Recovery continues to bridge gaps in the treatment and understanding of eating disorders and mental health challenges in our community, their dream is to offer scholarships to clients so they can actually stay in treatment long enough to find freedom. They reference national stats on how underdiagnosed/undertreated eating disorders are, and they want to make treatment sustainable for lower-income clients. This is a dream, to provide a way for people to have the resources they need!

Little Lights has been serving kids and families in SE DC for 30 years through tutoring, mentoring, family support, food, and discipleship. This wish is for Grace to come alongside Little Lights for the “Space to Shine” Campaign – dedicated to renovating their new location in the District, equipping the center, and supporting year-round programs to serve more kids and parents. With our support, they can continue to create a welcoming, Christ-centered space FOR the neighborhood.

Arlington’s homelessness crisis is getting more complex – more folks with chronic health issues, mental health needs, and no stable place to receive care. PathForward’s Medical Mobile Program takes health care to people living outside or in shelters. Their dream is to keep the Medical Mobile Program outreach going and growing – by hiring more medical staff, purchasing much-needed supplies, and improving the overall outreach infrastructure. It fills a gap in Arlington’s health care system, and it shows our neighbors that they are not facing homelessness alone.

The Sentencing Project hopes to expand its Research Fellowship Program in the next year, welcoming more emerging researchers into the vital work of advancing justice. As a trusted voice in the space of sentencing reform and youth justice, The Sentencing Project feels a deep responsibility to ensure its fellows are equipped to research and respond to the “rapidly evolving criminal legal system” with good data and good advocacy. This support strengthens the next generation of justice-focused researchers while advancing more equitable and effective outcomes in the criminal legal system.

The Sentencing Project’s second dream project is more communications-oriented: pushing back on harmful narratives and elevating compassionate, human-centered policy. They hope to produce a short research brief exploring how the increasing criminalization of immigration is harming the country and the justice system. The report will provide tools to policymakers, advocates, and faith leaders to tell a better story about Compassion & Justice, deeply rooted in mercy and the dignity of all people.

Project Belong supports foster/adoptive families and the kids in their care throughout Northern Virginia, but more than that, they also equip local churches to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the lives of vulnerable children in our communities. Their dream for the next year is to expand their successful “Don’t Go Alone” Program, which matches a youth aging out of the foster system with caring adults to walk alongside them into adulthood. The expansion requires a new part-time staff member to share the workload with other staff members and fully focus on the relationships built in this program!

Pink Door Berlin continues to serve women who’ve survived sexual exploitation and/or sexual trafficking in Europe. Many of them, after getting into a safe position, still struggle with social situations, confidence, and reconnecting with “normal life.” One of their projects for next year is to fund their community-building program, where Pink Door clients are matched with trained volunteers (“p.inkies”) who help them practice social skills in safe, trauma-informed environments. They piloted this idea this year, and it worked so well that the hope is to turn it into an official program in 2026!

One of the biggest obstacles for women leaving sexual exploitation is finding ways to get back into the workforce in safe environments. Last year, “Do Good” funded Pink Door’s workforce development program – teaching women necessary job skills on a “mini job basis.” (A mini job in Germany can be 2-12 hours per week.) And next year, they want to hire their own clients as a first step into a German “mini-job.” This project allows survivors to re-enter the workforce gently, with support from a social worker and counselor, in a place that understands trauma.