Yes! (Sorry, kids.) We are already preparing for the upcoming school year, and we need your help!

Each summer, amazing Back-to-School Sponsors ensure that every child at Doorways has the essentials for school: a backpack, lunch box, water bottle, umbrella, and a $100 Target or VISA gift card* for school supplies. Sign up to sponsor a child today!

We are so grateful for your support! For those who register before July 7th, you will receive your introductory email between July 10th - July 12th. 

If you have any questions about Doorways' back-to-school drive, please reach out! You can contact Ashley via email [email protected] or by phone at 703-504-9271.

POV: Back-to-school gift cards in action!

*Why gift cards? Kids love to pick out their own stuff. Favorite colors and characters, types of pencils and pens, folders, cases, and more. Gift cards give kids the gift of choice. What's more fun and empowering than that?

A federal gun law has protected domestic violence survivors for 30 years; now SCOTUS will decide its fate

"It's a sensible policy reflecting a set of stark statistics: Women whose abusers have access to guns are 5 times more likely to be killed than those whose partners don't have guns available."

SCOTUS says victims in decades-old sex abuse scandal can sue

"On Monday, the Supreme Court denied OSU's petition to appeal a lower court's decision to allow students to sue the school for failure to properly respond to and protect them from allegations of rampant sexual assault by a professor and athletics physician."

Formerly incarcerated Virginians 10x more likely to face homelessness

"In Virginia, where the incarceration rate exceeds the national average (which is already the highest in the world), 749 out of every 100,000 people are currently locked up in a jail, prison, immigrant detention or juvenile justice center. That translates to over 64,000 Virginians who will be susceptible to housing insecurity when they are released, not to mention the tens of thousands of others who have already served their time."

Clients graduating from Doorways' shelters into our housing program need your support

Currently, we have several families transitioning out of shelter into their own homes and new families joining our programs. Please help them feel at home in their new space by providing some household essentials: