ABCD Institute
Wendy McCaig, Embrace Executive Director, serves as a member of the ABCD Institute training team in her capacity as a Faculty/Steward of the Institute. These trainings are offered periodically…
Acewall Scholars
Acewall Scholars has been investing in the leaders of tomorrow through individual tutoring, mentoring and community building activities since 2006. Acewall is partnering with Embrace to grow its…
April Doner
April is a community-builder, storyteller, artist and connector who blends ground-level practices of asset-based community-driven development with writing, photography/video, teaching, and network-…
ARC
The Association for Regenerative Culture and Embrace Communities are partnering to develop a collaborative curriculum that brings together Asset-based Community Development principles and practices…
Baptist General Association of Virginia
Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) is a 2015 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. The BGAV is a missionary movement unleashing the power of the resurrected Christ through…
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) is a 2015 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. For nearly three decades, BTSR trained women and men for ministry in the 21st century church…
Beautiful RVA
Beautiful RVA is a 2017 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. They are a regional coalition of public and private agencies and organizations invested in improving the quality of life in…
Belmont Community Resource Services
Belmont Community Resource Services has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since 2018 and is a founding member of the Empowered Communities Network. They started a food…
Better Days Farmville
Better Days Farmville participated in our Fall 2022 learning cohort and joined the Empowered Communities Network in January of 2023. You can learn more about their great work here.
Beulah United Methodist Church
Beulah United Methodist Church is a 2017 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. To learn more about this sponsor, visit their website here.
Brandermill Church
The Brandermill Church is a 2015 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. They are a unique union of the Presbyterian Church USA and The United Methodist Church, and their …
Building Hope in the City
Building Hope in the City (BHITC) is a 2016 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. BHITC is focused on the renewal of urban Cleveland. It uniquely links local congregations and volunteers…
Callie Walker
Callie Walker is an United Methodist pastor, community organizer, and founding member of Central Virginia Agrarian Commons. Her and her husband donated 85 acres of Amelia County farm land in support…
Caterpillar Ministries
Caterpillar Ministries completed Power Shift Part 1 in the fall of 2023. Through this training, they discerned that a community wide listening project would be their next faithful step in…
Centenary United Methodist Church
Centenary UMC has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since January 2022. CUMC is one of six downtown churches, partnering in the Downtown Community Ministry, providing a…
Chester United Methodist Church
Chester United Methodist Church is a 2015 training sponsor with Embrace Communities. They are a community in Christ who joins with other United Methodists in the mission to make disciples for…
Chesterfield County, Virginia
Chesterfield County, Virginia has been a Training Sponsor and Coaching Client with Embrace Communities since 2015. To learn more about this sponsor, please visit their website here.…
Church in the Wild
We are excited to be partnering with Church in the Wild pastor Corey Turnpenny to launch a Regenerative Culture listening project. Corey is a 2024 Great Neighbor Award recipient and we are thankful…
Church of the Reconciliation - San Antonio
Church of the Reconciliation is a 2017 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. Part of their mission is to serve one another and their neighbors, respecting all of Creation. To learn more…
CHW Strength
The Executive Director of CHW Strength completed ABCD Training in the fall of 2022 and joined the Empowered Communities Network in January of 2023. Learn more here.
City of Richmond, VA
The City of Richmond, Virginia is a 2016 Consulting Client for Embrace Communities. To learn more about this client, please visit their website here. Initiatives ABCD and…
Coastal Bend Neighborhood Empowerment
Coastal Bend Neighborhood Empowerment (CBNE) has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since 2017 and is a founding member of the Empowered Communities Network. They are…
Common Grace Ministries - Noble New Way
Like many faith-rooted non-profits, Common Grace Ministries has a long history of mercy based activities including providing a financial safety net for families experiencing financial challenges, a…
Communities in Schools – Chesterfield County
Communities In Schools Chesterfield has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since 2019 and is a founding member of the Empowered Communities Network. Communities In Schools' (…
Concerned Citizens of Ettrick
Concerned Citizens of Ettrick is a 2016 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. They promote the cultural, spiritual, economic, educational, physical and social well-being of the Ettrick community…
Cornerstone Revitalization Center
Cornerstone Revitalization Center (CRC) is a 2014 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. CRC is a non-profit organization in Central Virginia whose mission is to: Share Christ, Empower…
Crosswinds International
Crosswinds International has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since July 2022 and joined the Empowered Communities Network in September of 2022. Crosswinds serves an…
Embrace Centers for Community
Embrace Centers for Community is seeking to establish health-focused community hubs in under utilized United Methodist Churches in the western part of Virginia. The first such hub is up and running…
Episcopal Church Foundation
Embrace conducted an ABCD Overview session in the summer of 2022 for the ECF Pivot Program.
Family Connections
Family Connection sites are supported by the West Central Health District across more than a dozen counties is west central Georgia. The community based health and wellness organizations seek to…
Farmville United Methodist Church
The Senior Pastor of Farmville UMC participated in our Fall 2022 learning cohort and the church joined the Empowered Communities Network in January 2023 as a champion for ABCD efforts in the region.…
Gayton Baptist Church
Gayton Baptist Church is a 2018 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. Gayton has a rich history of engaging with the community around them. And as they move forward as a church family,…
Heart of Virginia ABCD Network
The Heart of Virginia ABCD Network grew out of our 2021 learning cohort and 2022 community of practice. This group hosted an ABCD Overview workshop and Learning Cohort in the fall of 2023 with the…
Hillside Court Partnership
The Hillside Court community is a 446-unit public housing complex operated by Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA). Hillside Court is 99% African American and 1% Caucasian, 90% single…
Kaleidoscope Collaborative
Kaleidoscope Collaborative RVA LLC is a founding member of the Empower Communities Network, and Embrace Communities has been partnering with Cheryl Groce-Wright, the founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope,…
Natural pHuel
Allison Crews is a cultivator of community networks through wellness, food & education. Her home base of natural pHuel, located in Farmville, is an extension of her mission, a space dedicated to…
OC3 Hopewell
OC3 is a 2016 training sponsor with Embrace Communities. They are a grassroots organization of churches and concerned citizens, uniting for the restoration of hope, healing and well-being of the city…
Pace Center
The Pace Center has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since 2017 and is a founding member of the Empowered Communities Network. Their mission is to equip and…
Partnership for Families Northside
Partnership for Families Northside is a 2016 training sponsor and coaching client with Embrace Communities. They are system of coordinated services for Families with the purpose of preparing north…
Richmond City Health Department
To learn more about this partner, visit their website here. Initiatives The Southwood Collaborative, Richmond VirginiaThis collaborative effort is a joint venture between…
SAFE: Southern Alamance Family Empowerment
SAFE: Southern Alamance Family Empowerment completed Power Shift Part 1 in the fall of 2023. Through this training, they discerned that the small step that would be most helpful to them in their…
Snapshots of Past Initiatives
The video's below capture the stories of community members who have used their gifts to strengthen their communities from the inside. They are the heroes we have all been waiting for. We…
St. Francis Episcopal Church
The vision of St. Francis Episcopal Church is to "invite the surrounding communities into the family of God." To learn more, visit their website here. Initiatives St. Francis Episcopal…
Staunton District of the United Methodist Church
The Staunton District of the United Methodist Church is a 2017 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. The 77 United Methodist Churches of the Staunton District tend mission fields of…
Tamarack Institute
Embrace is thankful to be a part of Tamarack Institute's 2024 ABCD workshop series. Our co-designed half-day highly interactive introduction to ABCD was a huge success with over 150…
The Historic Brookland Park Collective
As an Asset-Based Community Development Organization,we train, coach and financially support youth and adult leaders working to bring about positive changes in their…
The James River District
The James River District -- here to empower their 83 United Methodist Churches to make Disciples of Jesus Christ. To learn more, please visit their website here. Initiatives…
The Unitarian Universalist Community Church
The Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Glen Allen, Virginia is a 2017 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. They believe that by using love, wonder, and connection, they can…
The United Methodist of Upper New York
The United Methodist of Upper New York cohort brought together eight of the most innovative leaders in the Upper New York Conference. The pastoral leaders were from a variety of contexts including.…
Together We Rise
Was integration in Richmond, Virginia a failed social experiment or is it a dream yet realized? Are we at end of that story or is this just the beginning? Answering these questions is the…
Town of Crewe Virginia - Community Development Department
The Town of Crewe's community development department chair completed our Fall 2022 learning cohort and joined the Empowered Communities Network in January of 2023.
Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
Union Presbyterian Seminary is a 2016 Training Sponsor with Embrace Communities. Union Presbyterian Seminary equips Christian leaders for ministry in the world — a sacred vocation that requires…
Unsung Heroes
The Brookland Park StoryOur asset-mapping often reveals two of the most overlooked assets in community transformation – the young people, who have passion and energy – and the senior adults, who have…
Virginia Community Health Workers Association
The Virginia Community Health Workers Association (VACHWA) has been a training and coaching client of Embrace Communities since 2019 and is a founding member of the Empowered Communities Network…
Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church
The Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church hosted one Power Shift Learning Cohorts in 2024 with additional learning cohorts and an implementation focused Community of Practice launching…
Virginia State Parks Association
Virginia State Parks Association is an active training client and a key partner in community building efforts across the South Central Virginia region. Learn more here.
We Understand Youth
We Understand Youth (WUY) became a coaching & training client of Embrace in June of 2022. WUY is seeking to strengthen the Farmville Community by investing in our future community leaders…