The Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia, is hosting its Annual Toy Drive in partnership with OAR NOVA to support local families affected by the criminal justice system. Running through December 8, the community is encouraged to donate new, unwrapped toys at drop-off locations across the Workhouse campus. The drive aims to bring holiday joy while emphasizing the center’s commitment to creativity, compassion, and community engagement. For more information, visit the Workhouse Arts Center’s website.
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Mary Washington Hospice hosted its seventh annual Light Up a Life Illumination event on Thursday, November 14. This special event allowed community members to purchase luminaries in their loved ones’ memory. Over 320 individuals were honored, and their names were read aloud by the hospice team during an intimate program at Mary Washington Hospital.
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Heather Haney, a participant in the Leadership Prince William Signature Program Class of 2025, shared her journey with the organization, reflecting on how it began with the Emerging Leaders Program. Haney’s involvement in Leadership Prince William started in 2018 after a friend encouraged her to apply.
"I was in a tough headspace at the time, working on launching my own business," Haney said. "My friend, who was already involved with Leadership Prince William, suggested I give it a try."
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Yesterday, at the warehouse operated by Northern Virginia food pantry Food For Others, employees and associates of I-66 Express Mobility Partners (I-66 EMP), the builder and operator of the 66 Express Outside the Beltway, packed a grand total of 660 Power Packs for the area’s school-aged children.
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Virginia Credit Union (VACU) and the Fredericksburg Nationals have donated $11,710 to combat hunger and food insecurity in the Central Rappahannock River area. Through a partnership with the FredNats, the Fredericksburg-based minor league baseball team, VACU makes a $5 donation to the Fredericksburg Regional Food Bank for every strikeout recorded by the Nationals’ pitchers during the course of the season. The FredNats matched VACU’s $5,855 donation.
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On Friday, August 30, 2024, the parking lot of Winners Church at 17877 Old Triangle Road transformed into a bustling center of health and wellness. Community members gathered for a comprehensive health fair aimed at providing crucial medical screenings and education to the uninsured and underinsured.
The event, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., was a partnership between Winners Church and Sentara Healthcare, marking a new collaborative effort to enhance community health services. This year’s fair featured a vital addition—a mobile mammogram van from Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center offering free cancer screenings.
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House of Mercy, a longstanding food pantry and thrift store near Manassas, announced significant operational changes in response to a sharp increase in demand for its services. The organization will temporarily halt new client registrations and shift from offering free to discounted clothing.
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Habitat for Humanity in Prince William County, under the interim leadership of Steve Liga, is recalibrating its mission to tackle the unique challenges of expensive real estate and a community need for home repairs rather than new builds.
Liga, who stepped in as the interim director, detailed how his experience with other nonprofits led him to this role. He explained his immediate focus on stabilizing the organization's financial footing and reconnecting with the community after a slow period exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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In 2022, Liga left ACTS in Dumfries after serving as its CEO for seven years.
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Steve Liga joined Habitat for Humanity Prince William on June 12 as our part-time, Interim CEO. During his tenure, he will be updating our infrastructure, streamlining our operations, improving the profitability of our ReStore (so we can increase the number of our Critical Home Repair projects), completing the renovation of the two houses in our Home Ownership Program and moving families into their new homes, leading our 30th Anniversary Campaign, recruiting for and training our board of directors, and assisting us hire our next full-time CEO. Whew! And did we mention this was a part-time position?
Mr. Liga is the President of Liga Consulting & Training, a company that provides consultation and training based on his extensive skills and expertise in non-profit management, strategic planning, policy and advocacy work, program development, and evaluation. He has over thirty years of experience in the field of social services, twenty-five of which he spent as a CEO of various non-profit organizations. Mr. Liga’s volunteer service has included positions on many nonprofit boards of directors, such as the national Zero Abuse Project, where he is currently Vice Chair.
Mr. Liga’s mission is to help non-profit organizations improve their performance, impact, and sustainability by offering customized solutions and guidance. He specializes in non-profit governance, policy advocacy, storytelling, and board development. He has a proven track record of increasing budgets, launching new programs, and improving efficiencies for his clients and former employers. He has also been a respected resource for media outlets and a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops. He is passionate about improving the health and well-being of the communities he serves, especially the medically underserved, the hungry, and the victims of interpersonal violence.
Working with us at Habitat for Humanity Prince William County is not just another contract for Mr. Liga. His roots with Habitat for Humanity go all the way back to his college days, where he and his wife founded Villanova University’s Habitat for Humanity chapter, which at one point was the largest college-based Habitat chapter in the world!
