Join our community-based outreach initiatives to help families thrive, not just survive. Care. Commit. Connect. Cause.

• Fresh Start for Baby
The Pepsi Refresh Everything Fresh Start for Baby project provides safe cribs, bedding, clothing, a baby shower, photo book and postpartum meals to families in need.
• MOMS (Maternity Outreach Mentoring Services)
Volunteers partner one on one with expecting or new moms in need by providing encouragement, advocacy, friendship and connections to resources.
• Virginia Community-Based Doula Initiative
Because We Are Sisters is proud to partner with Jenny Simpson of Birth and Baby Kneads for the Virginia Community-Based Doula Initiative. Click on the link to visit the VACDI page and learn more about this collaborative outreach program designed to improve birth outcomes and experiences for poor and low income women throughout Virginia.
• Beverly Allen School Preservation Initiative
Because We Are Sisters is committed to helping those who attended the Beverly Allen School in West Point, VA celebrate the spirit of survival and history of making a way out of no way embodied by those who walked through the doors each day.

The website is under construction, but please visit us on facebook to learn more about the project, share stories or upload photos. You can also contact tsirles@bwas.org for additional information. Beverly Allen School Preservation Initiative | Promote Your Page Too


• Perspectives on Poverty
The Perspectives on Poverty initiative will help expand views and challenge assumptions about women and children in crisis one story at a time. We are passionate about helping families build upon and celebrate existing strengths while creating a future full of possibilities.

Women who are in, or have emerged from, tough financial situations will be given an online forum to share their own stories in various mediums including video, photographs, poetry, artwork, or the written word. Our hope is to empower and inspire by breathing the complexities of real life into faceless statistics. The website is currently under construction so check back soon to learn more.

• Community Connections
We support local organizations that provide critical resources to those experiencing hunger or homelessness and for community-based projects that enable us to do a lot with a little. Donations from our volunteers and supporters have given us the opportunity to provide support for initiatives that improve quality of life.
• Children in Crisis Care Packages: Deliver items such as diapers, clothing, toys, food, formula or baby gear to women and their children in immediate need.
• Backpacks in Monroe Park: In July, we partnered with Diamondz Are Forever Social Group to distribute backpacks and food in Monroe Park.
• Shelter Support: Provide crisis care packages to women and children living in homeless, domestic violence or transitional housing shelters including cribs, clothing, personal care items, diapers and toys.
• Central Virginia Foodbank: Thanks to everyone who supported Thanksgiving in August to support the work of CVFB
• Pecan Acres Girl Scout Troop: Sponsorship for a group of young girls from low income housing who are in need of art supplies, handbooks, sashes and uniforms as they pursue their dreams.
• Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center: Care packages to support those who have served our country
• Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure: Thanks to everyone who came out to support us in the Race for the Cure in Richmond, Virginia on Saturday, May 8th.