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Strengthening the Safety Net: How VB Home Now is Ending Homelessness

For over three decades, Virginia Beach has relied on a dedicated "tapestry" of faith-based groups, city agencies, and nonprofits to address the challenges of homelessness. Standing at the center of this collaborative effort is VB Home Now, a nonprofit powerhouse designed to support and enhance the city’s service system.

VB Home Now was established to ensure that no person in our community falls through the cracks. By mobilizing resources and raising critical funds, they fill the essential gaps—such as health clinics and housing units—that are often beyond the reach of traditional government funding alone.

Targeted Impact: Where the Funding Goes

VB Home Now focuses its resources on high-impact solutions that make homelessness rare, brief, and nonrecurring. Their funding directly supports:

• Stable Housing: Assistance with initial rent to help families with children move into permanent homes, along with dedicated housing search support.

• Health & Wellness: Providing essential dental and health services, as well as food services, at the Housing Resource Center.

• Empowerment & Education: Funding GED courses and specialized training programs to help residents gain the skills necessary for long-term employment.

• Critical Logistics: Providing transportation to and from key service centers and supporting both single and family shelter services.

A Community Mobilized

The goal of VB Home Now is simple but profound: to reinvigorate the community's collective effort to help our neediest neighbors. Through their work at the Housing Resource Center and beyond, they are transforming lives by providing the tools for permanent stability.

Get Involved: By supporting VB Home Now, you are contributing to a proven system of services that restores dignity and provides a path home for individuals and families in Virginia Beach.

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In February of 2002, after 7 years of prayer, Hope for Life Rescue Inc. became a reality. The founder had been rescuing animals independently for several years prior and on many occasions went to other local rescue meetings to see how they operated.

At Hope for Life, we are a PRO-LIFE organization committed to the rescue and placement of abandoned, abused, and neglected animals typically coming from high-kill facilities. We often see animals in horrible condition as we try to take those that need our help the most.

Both of our facilities are cage free. We are a private organization and we get no city or state funding and no grants. We operate solely on donations from people and businesses in our community. We cannot continue the mission without your support.