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Nonprofit Spotlight: LGBT Life Center Responds to Pandemic with Community Foundation Support
Born more than three decades ago out of the HIV crisis, LGBT Life Center found itself adapting this year to help people through another pandemic, COVID-19. I had the privilege of interviewing the folks who do such outstanding work for LGBT Life Center and writing a story for the fall/winter 2020 issue of the Hampton Roads Community Foundation’s Good Tidings newsletter.
Nonprofit Spotlight: Foundations Team to Enhance Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration
Like many drivers, Jackie Shannon knows the frustration of being stuck in traffic at the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. Her precious cargo? Baby oysters. A new floating oyster restoration facility will streamline the process and lead to more oysters and cleaner rivers that flow to the Chesapeake Bay. The Hampton Roads Community Foundation gave Chesapeake Bay Foundation a grant for the project.


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