The Advancement Foundation

The Advancement Foundation works to lead community wide social change by improving the lives of the underprivileged. The Foundation accomplishes this work by: first, helping create sustainability for local health and human service nonprofits; and, secondly through the LEAP Program, which assists the underprivileged in developing and executing a life improvement plan.

Achieving Community Improvement

For its efforts, The Foundation was nominated for the Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year Award for 2009!

The Advancement Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization, provides two primary functions to advance the lives of underprivileged citizens in the Roanoke Valley. First, the Foundation provides strategic planning, fundraising and board development for valuable health and human service organizations so that they are able to continue their critical work in the Valley. The Foundation does this by working with directors and board members to focus on building capacity and encouraging partnerships across organizations.

These nonprofit organizations, which include Manna Ministries, West End Center, Roanoke County Prevention Council, Southwest Virginia Second Harvest Food Bank, Big Brothers, Big Sisters, Katie’s Place and Roanoke Catholic Educational Foundation, impact approximately 10,000 individuals per year.

The Foundation also works to provide long lasting social change for citizens by providing programming that allows citizen experiencing chronic poverty to create and execute a comprehensive life plan. We partner with East Mental Health to help build sustainable change in the lives of our LEAP program participants.