Britepaths' Holiday Program is seeking donations of funds and gift cards to help us provide gift cards to families with identified need so they can purchase holiday meals and gifts for their children in December.

Thank You to Our Sponsors! American Legion Post 177 in Fairfax, the Peterson Family Foundation, Walmart Fairfax, Walmart Fair Lakes and our Wine & Wonderment Supporters!

In the News! Thank you to our local media for helping us get out the word. Read stories in the Fairfax Connection, Fairfax County Times, Sun-Gazette and Fairfax City Patch.

Thank You to everyone who joined us and supported our Wine & Wonderment event on November 9 at 2941 Restaurant! We raised $20,000 to help families in our Holiday Program enjoy holiday meals and gifts for their children.

During the evening, we presented long-time supporters Kim and Pete Scudera with the Beacon Award. Financial Empowerment volunteer Robbie Mosley, who has volunteered more than 300 hours since 2019, was presented with the Brite Star Award for his exemplary service.

Attendees also participated in a silent auction and donated during our live appeal. Thank you to our guests and our silent auction donors: Alya Salon & Spa, Diamonds Direct Tysons and Viktoria Art Photography. And thank you to our photographer, Hernan Vargas, for the wonderful photos from the evening!

On November 1, Britepaths was honored to be recognized along with 20 of our fellow local nonprofits by the Fairfax County Government Board of Supervisors for our work to assist County residents during the pandemic. When everything shut down in March of 2020, we were really worried about what would happen to our neighbors who were already facing challenges. It's incredible how we were all able to pull together so quickly to help so many. We are so grateful to our staff and community partners, who worked so hard in challenging times, and to Fairfax County leaders and staff for their mighty efforts and support. So many organizations and individual supporters contributed generously as well. We feel fortunate to live and work in such a caring community.

As the Fairfax County Farmers Market season comes to a close, we'd like to thank everyone who has been supporting our efforts to help our families enjoy fresh, healthy food from the markets this year.

The Annandale Farmers Market celebrated its last day for 2022 on November 3. We thank our wonderful volunteers, the Fairfax County Park Authority and our partners FRESHFARM and LEAP for supporting our work to help SNAP recipients double their benefits to shop at the Market this year. We had many new customers!

We're also grateful to our Our Daily Veggies partners for accepting our vouchers at the local markets so our families could supplement their food budgets with fresh fruits, veggies and protein.

Click Here to learn more about our Farmers Market Initiatives

Financial Planning Day

We're grateful to the Financial Planning Association-National Capital Area (FPA-NCA) for inviting us to be part of their 2022 Financial Planning Day, held at the University of the District of Columbia on October 29. We had an information table at the event, and some of our volunteers provided free in-person financial planning sessions. We were excited to partner with FPA-NCA our grantor Foundation for Financial Planning and many great organizations to provide this service to community members.

Donations and Grants

Thank you to the following organizations for their generous donations in October and November:

• Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation
• Neel Foundation
• Bob's Discount Furniture Foundation
• Nativity Catholic Church in Burke
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
• Ourisman Fairfax Toyota
• Matthew Korn and Cynthia Miller Family Foundation

Food Support

Donate to Our Pantry

Pantry Donations:

• JC Penney District 8291 employees
• Woman's Club of Fairfax
• Flint Hill School

Food4Thought Packs

• Iota Epsilon Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority
• Junior League of Northern Virginia