2025 Chain of Checks Campaign Grant Recipients
- Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging (Seniors First):
The Seniors First Home Delivered Meals program is a lifeline for homebound older adults, empowering
them to live independently with dignity. Dedicated volunteers and drivers deliver hot, nutritious
lunches four days a week, and a frozen meal for the fifth day. The drivers provide more than meals, as
they conduct brief but vital safety checks and social interaction for isolated seniors. With the grant, the
agency can expand their reach, ensuring that no senior in the region goes hungry or feels forgotten.
- Love to NIC, LLC: Each month, Love to NIC provides 50 high quality, well rounded meals and supplies to local individuals
experiencing homelessness. Guests are invited to choose their preferred meals, honoring their dignity
and respect. In addition to the meal, the organization provides items like new shoes and socks, t-shirts,
sweat shirts, rain gear and other basic necessities. With the Chain of Checks funds, Love to NIC aims to
restore strength and a sense of self-worth to the homeless.
- Sinclair Health Clinic: The Sinclair Health Clinic in Winchester provides comprehensive medical care to 2,800 uninsured and
underinsured individuals annually in the Northern Shenandoah Valley. To fulfill their mission, it is
essential that the clinic maintains modern, reliable tools to ensure accurate diagnoses, effective
treatment, and a safe clinical environment. The grant funds received will support the replacement and
enhancement of outdated equipment in multiple areas of the clinic, including diagnostic tools, pharmacy
equipment and point-of-care testing devices, ensuring that every patient receives the high-quality care
they deserve.
- Concern Hotline, Inc.: Concern Hotline has been providing 24-hour suicide prevention and compassionate listening to the
Northern Shenandoah Valley since 1968 with over 3,000 calls in 2024. Chain of Checks funding will help
Concern Hotline to continue to comfort, calm and assist those in need with empathetic support via
trained volunteers.
About Chain of Checks
The Chain of Checks campaign to support local non-profits was founded by Barry Lee in 1986. In 2013 the Community Foundation of Northern Shenandoah Valley became the campaign’s fiscal agent and helped create an endowment that will serve community charities forever.
*Community Foundation of Northern Shenandoah Valley: 540-869-6776, Nancy Croft Baker, Executive Director
*Chain of Checks: Barry Lee, 540-409-6929 (email-BreakfastWithBarryLee@gmail.com)
Donations may be made safely online at www.chainofchecks.com or by mail with checks made out to ‘Chain of Checks’ and mailed to Community Foundation NSV, P.O. Box 2391, Winchester, VA 22604
This donation link will take you to the Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley
website who will process your donation.
Your donation is tax deductible
2025 Chain of Checks Events
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
Attend opening night, Friday, November 28th , 5:30-9:00pm, as Chain of Checks will receive HALF of the gate proceeds.
Bring the family and your out-of-town guests to walk off some turkey-day calories! For the complete Wonderland schedule and to purchase tickets, log on to www.fcprd.net.
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Join us for two holiday film screenings benefitting Chain of Checks. On Saturday, December 6, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will host screenings of the holiday family movies Arthur Christmas at 11:00 am and White Christmas at 4:30 pm. A portion of ticket sales will be donated to Chain of Checks.
In between the movies from 1-4pm in the Alamo Lobby, it’s a Facebook Live “Face-A-Thon” broadcast, hosted by your former Chain of Checks radio family.
Stop by and say HI – leave a donation in the collection box – or donate online and leave a message at www.chainofchecks.com. Every half hour the radio team will go LIVE on Facebook for “shout-outs” to donors, interviews with community leaders, and comments from guests who stop by.
Clarke County Community Band Christmas Concerts
- Saturday, December 6, 3:00 pm, Clarke County High School, Berryville Virginia
- Sunday, December 20, 7:00 pm, Armstrong Concert Hall, Shenandoah University
Enjoy the sounds of the season at no charge. Chain of Checks collection boxes will be displayed at the entrance to the auditorium for those who wish to make a donation.
“Change Boxes to Change Lives”
While you’re out and about shopping or running errands, drop your spare change (or bills or checks) into the Chain of Checks Collection Boxes at these locations:
- Handy Mart / Dunkin’ Donuts
- Solenberger’s Hardware
- Rotz Pharmacy
- Gore’s Meats & Deli (Stephens City)
- Bank of Clarke (Stephens City)
- Bell’s Clothes
- Nibblins
- Daily Buzz (Middletown/Stephens City)
- First Bank
- Wilkins Shoe Center
- Creekside Gifts
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