Archive, Making Change
Caring for our community
Animal Welfare League of Alexandria
Raven Fleisher loves animals. She adopted her cat, Zelda, from the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria in 2023. And when she got the opportunity to make a $1,000 donation through...
Arts for All Loudoun
Tamma Payne has seen every Arts for All Loudoun show since 1992, when her former brother-in-law, William Muncaster, first performed in a production of Peter Pan at the age of...
Boxes of Basics
When Sarah Tyndall first started collecting children’s clothes for a local family in need, she had no idea it would end up helping thousands of local kids. But just a...
C.W. Shipley Elementary School
It’s been five years since Shawn Barnhouse has had any children enrolled at C.W. Shipley Elementary School in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. But the school’s impact on her family sticks...
Candido S.
Candido S., 38, had an unexpected stroke in January 2023. He was in the hospital for about two weeks and has been working on recovery ever since. Lina Rios,...
Centreville Elementary School
Trish Smith, MainStreet Bank’s chief human resources officer, has had kids at Centreville Elementary School for 11 years now. When she was thinking about where she could put a Making...
Cornerstones
There’s nothing quite like preparing a meal with your loved ones. For MainStreet Bank’s Krishna Challa, Vice President of Engineering at Avenu, that feeling of closeness and fulfillment only grows...
English Empowerment Center
The English Empowerment Center—formerly known as the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia—is near and dear to Betty Gillen, a business banking portfolio manager who was once a volunteer tutor for...
Fairfax CASA
Talk about a happy coincidence! Four MainStreet Bank employees in two locations separately came up with the idea of giving their Making Change dollars to the same organization. They teamed...
Fairfax Villa
It’s 9 a.m. at Fairfax Villa Elementary school, and the last school buses are pulling in. Staff waiting inside the entrance greet students with a smile as they come through....