Lorton Community Action Center (LCAC) is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization. Our goal is to break the
LCAC has provided food, clothing, emergency financial assistance and outreach programs to southeastern Fairfax County for over 40 years. Found in 1975 as an all-volunteer organization, LCAC has grown to a staff of 10 (full and part-time) relying on more than 800 volunteers to serve over 300 families each week through our programs. LCAC serves residents that live in the following areas of southeast
LCAC has provided food, clothing, emergency financial assistance and outreach programs to southeastern Fairfax County for over 40 years. Found in 1975 as an all-volunteer organization, LCAC has grown to a staff of 10 (full and part-time) relying on more than 800 volunteers to serve over 300 families each week through our programs. LCAC serves residents that live in the following areas of southeast
Operating as usual
DONATE GROCERIES TOMORROW FOR LCAC:
Donate to LCAC’s Stuff the Bus at this location tomorrow Saturday, January 14th (9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.): at the Lorton Giant, 8941 Ox Road, Lorton, VA 22079.
A collaborative program in partnership between Fairfax County Government and local nonprofits, Stuff the Bus since inception has collected hundreds of tons of food to feed people experiencing food insecurity in Fairfax County.
Yesterday a group of Elders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered with LCAC. They helped us prepare hundreds of pounds of carrots, apples, butternut squash, and potatoes for last night’s food distribution.
All of the proceeds from our Lorton's Attic Thrift Store go to supporting LCAC's mission. Currently large inventory at unusually low prices. Come on by and find something unique to brighten your day.
From all of us at Lorton Community Action Center, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
De parte de todos nosotros en El Centro de Acción de la Comunidad de Lorton, FELICES FIESTAS!!!
Thank you to Dan Storck, Mount Vernon District Supervisor, and all of his staff for volunteering at Lorton Community Action Center (LCAC) yesterday.
REMINDER: DROP OFF the gifts you signed up for this Saturday, December 17th from 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (The next day, we will distribute them to the children and seniors who requested them.) WE STILL NEED A FEW MORE GIFTS—visit the updated Signupgenius link here https://lortonaction.org/lcacevents/ to fulfill holiday wishes!
Another way to help bring joy and health this holiday: purchase Food Lion Gift Cards in $25 increments and deliver them to Lorton Community Action Center this Saturday, Dec. 17th from 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
It’s not too late to help spread joy and good health for the holidays. Please purchase Food Lion Gift Cards in $25 increments and deliver them to Lorton Community Action Center this Saturday, Dec. 17th from 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. We will distribute these grocery cards to supplement our holiday gift distribution.
More Holiday Needs Added in LCAC Holidays Drive: Make Someone's Holiday Wish Come True--Updated Sign-Up list at this link: https://lortonaction.org/lcacevents/ Children have requested specific holiday gifts and you may make it happen. We are also collecting gift cards for our seniors and neighbors with disabilities, to remind them that our community cares for them.
State Delegate and Temple B’Nai Shalom member Kathy Tran delivered 996 boxes of mac & cheese from Temple B’Nai Shalom to LCAC's food pantry, enthusiastically received by LCAC's Executive Director Rob Rutland Brown. Each year, the temple creates a mac & cheese menorah through generous donations from their congregation, then donates the collected mac & cheese to LCAC’s food pantry. Shown here is part of the mac & cheese stacked high into a menorah creatively designed by Scott Kanowitz. Thank you all!
New Needs in LCAC Holidays Drive: Make Someone's Holiday Wish Come True--Updated Sign-Up list at this link: https://lortonaction.org/lcacevents/ Children have requested specific holiday gifts and you may make it happen. We are also collecting gift cards for our senior and disabled neighbors, to remind them that our community cares for them.
Happy holidays! LCAC's December Holidays Event is fast approaching! Please help us support families in need with special gifts for the children and a family grocery gift card. By registering to help with a specific gift and drop off on Saturday, December 17th, you will help us serve all those promised--the next day, on Sunday, December 18th, when they are distributed.
Children have requested specific holiday gifts, and it is a delight to make their wishes come true. We are also collecting gift cards for our senior and disabled neighbors, to remind them that our community cares for them, too. Please visit this signupgenius link on our Holiday Drive event page for details, https://lortonaction.org/lcacevents/.
Because of donors like you, Lorton Community Action Center (LCAC) provides a safety net for many. Please click here to donate today to continue providing resources to our neighbors and to remind them of caring people like you: https://lortonaction.networkforgood.com/projects/170278-support-lcac-work-and-mission
In the face of rapidly rising electric bills and skyrocketing rents in southeastern Fairfax County, our clients emotionally express gratitude for what LCAC means to them and others. “LCAC motivates people to continue the struggle to better themselves, and not be afraid to ask for help.”
LCAC is a place where dreams and good health are realized, and we need your help to continue providing basic needs including food, emergency rent and utility assistance, and other programs.
This Sunday, December 4th is LCAC’s Warm Coat Drive! Can you help? We are collecting new and clean gently used coats; and new hats and gloves for all ages. This Sunday from 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. please bring coats/hats/gloves donations to the Lorton Community Center (9520 Richmond Hwy). LCAC families and others in need will come to choose coats for their families later that day.
• We especially need coats for size 10 youth through adult size medium, fitting older elementary through high school.
Please print a donation form to complete and bring with your donation, at this link: https://lortonaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/WarmCoatDriveTaxReceiptForm.pdf. Before that Sunday, if you would like to donate coats and are unable to drop them off on December 4th, please contact Rob Rutland-Brown ([email protected]) for a separate delivery. Thanks!
We have so much to be thankful for, and you are one of them!
From all of us at Lorton Community Action Center, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! 🍁🍽🦃
¡Tenemos mucho por lo que estar agradecidos y usted es uno de ellos/as
De parte de todos nosotros en El Centro de Acción de Lorton, FELIZ DÍA DE ACCIÓN DE GRACIAS!!! 🍁🍽🦃
Reminder: Please drop off Thanksgiving baskets and grocery gift cards this Sunday, November 20th, from 10:00 a.m. - noon, at LCAC’s food pantry, 9520 Richmond Highway (Lorton Community Center). For more details about what we need, please click here to visit our website: https://lortonaction.org/thanksgiving-outreach/
We will distribute the baskets and grocery gift cards to our registered clients later that day.
We are Hiring—Food Pantry Assistant Wanted for LCAC
The Food Pantry Assistant will work alongside the Director of Nutrition to oversee the operations of the LCAC food pantry. This is a part-time, 25-hour-per-week position that pays $19/hour. Vacation and partial health insurance are included. To view the job description, visit our website page link here: https://lortonaction.org/careers/ To apply, please email your resume to [email protected] by December 4th.
And…
Thrift Store Volunteer Help Needed
We are in urgent need of help on the following days at our thrift store Lorton’s Attic:
Wed., November 30th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Fri., December 2nd, 10:00-1:00 p.m. and 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Tues. and Wed., December 6th and 7th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
If you can help, please email [email protected]
We are Hiring - Food Pantry Assistant Wanted for LCAC The Food Pantry Assistant works alongside the Director of Nutrition to oversee the operations of the LCAC food pantry. This is a part-time,25 hr/week position that pays $19/hr. Vacation and partial health insurance are included. To appl ...
This morning LCAC’s client services team and volunteers provided 39 households food to feed the whole family for a week, including fresh fruit and vegetables, vegan chocolate chip cookies, fish, and meat. Thanks to all the generous LCAC donors who make this possible!
Today LCAC, along with 20 other nonprofits, was recognized at the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors meeting for our work of providing critical services to the community during the pandemic. The LCAC staff are grateful for this honor and for the countless volunteers and supporters who stepped up throughout the height of the pandemic so we could expand our food and rent assistance when it was needed most. Pictured here, Rob Rutland-Brown of LCAC and Keisha Dotson of Fairfax County Neighborhood and Community Services shared a moment to celebrate their joint successes in serving the community.
LCAC held two town halls this past week to learn from clients what types of programming they’d like to see from us in the future. We asked how LCAC could improve, and heard much about the great impact of LCAC on many lives. One food-related message that was repeated: folks don’t want canned goods (too much sodium) and they love their vegetables. We’re on it! Stay tuned as we continue the conversation and share what our clients are saying. Their voices will help shape our work in the months ahead.
LCAC’s Director of Nutrition Joshua Henry is very happy we had the funds to buy milk and fresh produce for our clients this week. Many of our clients love to get milk and the produce is beautiful.
LCAC client services team members Díana and Yareli, and Josh of our food pantry, along with our Executive Director Rob and several board members, enjoyed giving tours and mingling with people at the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, where hundreds of community members celebrated the opening of the new Lorton Community Center. The LCAC office and food pantry are now officially housed in the new Center at 9520 Richmond Highway, adjacent to our old "house".
🚨ATTN ALL LCAC CLIENTS 🚨
Join us on October 20th from 11am to 12pm and October 27th from 7pm to 8pm! We will be having a Town Hall Meeting for all LCAC families. To discuss how we can better serve you and the community.
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Únase con nosotros el 20 de Octubre de 11am a 12pm y el 27 de Octubre de 7pm a 8pm. Tendremos una reunión para todas las familias de LCAC. Para discutir cómo servirle mejor a usted y a la comunidad.
Are you up for the Workhouse Arts Center’s very original and scary Halloween spook event? Get ready to bring a food donation for LCAC if you go.
NBC News at the link below gives the Workhouse event 4 BOOS (Stars) and mentions LCAC! Get spooked this weekend. The event is open every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through Nov 5th; refreshments are available for purchase and some dates also feature live music. Tickets available at the Workhouse website are required and expected to sell out on some dates.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/entertainment/the-scene/the-halloween-scene-inside-the-haunted-house-at-lortons-notorious-former-prison/3181085/
Learn more and buy tickets at workhousearts.org/haunt
The Workhouse Haunt brings a nightmare carnival to life at Lorton’s notorious former prison, which has its own violent history. News4’s Tommy McFly went inside.
Bring food to donate to LCAC and head to a scary haunted house event at the Workhouse Arts Center, now through Saturday, November 5th on Fridays and Saturdays 7-11 pm and
Sundays 7-10 pm.
In the Rizer Pavilion, 9518 Workhouse Way, Lorton VA 22079.
Food and beverages will be available each night; live music is scheduled on specific dates. Tickets for this event are limited and are being sold for specific time slots. Advanced purchase is highly recommended--many dates are expected to sell out completely.
This year’s Workhouse Haunt immerses guests through a highly-themed walk-through experience, as creepy characters deliver contactless scares in multiple scenes. Guests will travel in small groups for a frightening experience that brings them next to the site’s abandoned, historic buildings where they will encounter terrifying characters and sights that are not for the faint of heart.
Please remember to bring a food donation when you go!
Learn More and Buy Tickets: https://www.workhousearts.org/haunt
Temple B'Nai Shalom runs an annual drive benefitting LCAC that collected 2400 pounds of food and diapers donated this month for our clients!
Our Director of Client Services got called last weekend by Fairfax County because a client of LCAC had just had her electric power shut off. She had an urgent need for help to get her power reconnected, with two young children at home, especially since it was cold that weekend. LCAC made an emergency pledge and got her electricity fully restored. We followed up with her the next weekday and are now working with her to become more self-sufficient.
We were able to help her because of your generous support. LCAC's flexibility means we can act swiftly to help our clients in emergency times like this. LCAC's Fall Appeal is underway, and if you can help, we can do even more. Donate now to support LCAC's Fall Appeal and help us make a difference, at our website or here: https://lortonaction.networkforgood.com/projects/170278-support-lcac-work-and-mission
Thank you!
Today is Pumpkin Day at LCAC! Every client will receive a pumpkin along with their groceries at today’s food distribution. Still doing drive-throughs as the building is not yet permitted for public entry, but we are able to use our new food pantry and the construction/permits are allowing our new office space to become increasingly operational, too.
Yareli and Díana of the LCAC Client Services team at one of our drive-through distributions last week. Scroll down to see in their hands the beautiful Iranian dessert made by one of LCAC's clients.
BULK FOOD DELIVERIES AND FOOD RESCUE OPERATIONS TODAY AT LCAC - Food going to homeless shelters, fire stations and local neighborhoods from LCAC today. Weekly volunteer Eric, and friends Jeremiah and Kirah (shown here), facilitate extending the range of food distribution of LCAC. They deliver valuable bulk produce packages like huge bags of kale and carrots to local homeless shelters. Eric, Jeremiah and Kirah prevent waste as they rescue food donations that come to us with a short remaining shelf-life, by making same-day pickups and distributions. Jeremiah and Kirah also preserve food through canning and dehydration for neighbors.
Freezer working, check. Perfectly cold! And we're "chill" working hard on the move. We are so pleased to be gaining more and more access to our soon-to-be new LCAC home, in the new Lorton Community Center.
This photo provides a visual testament to the long history of LCAC working in the community. At the same time, it highlights the organizing efforts and rejuvenation involved in the move to the new Lorton Community Center. While we are following an established and careful policy and process of document retention, we are ready to purge many papers in preparation for our move. This pile will leave the LCAC office and go to shredding today.
Rebecca Geller and daughter whose Girl Scout troop made 550 snack packs for LCAC’s clients also inspired friends and neighbors to help collect hundreds of diapers and formula. Our client families really appreciate all this! The delivery to LCAC last week, pictured here, comes at a landmark time. Although we have not yet moved in, this was the first delivery we were able to load directly into the new Lorton Community Center building!
The move is finally happening, starting this coming Monday! Come be a part of LCAC history. We’ve waited a long time for this and it’s finally here.
We need people who can lift 45 pounds and can be available during the day for one or more of these times to help us move the short distance shown in this photo from the LCAC House Office and Pantry to the new Lorton Community Center. Maybe you know someone else who you can refer to help us one of these days? They can please contact Christen directly, [email protected].
We need for the pantry move 3 people for each of the time slots listed below. For the house/office move days listed below we need 5 people for each time slot.
Food Pantry move days:
Monday 12th : 9:00-11:00, 11:00-1:00, 1:00-3:00
Tuesday 13th 11:00-1:00
Wednesday 14th 9:00-11:00, 11:00-1:00
Friday 16th 9:00-11:00, 11:00-1:00
Office move days:
Wednesday 14th 10:30-12:00
Thursday 22nd 1:00-5:00
Friday 23rd 1:00-3:00
Please reach out to Christen, Director of Volunteers, if you can help. [email protected]
Keshia Ross, Junior League of Northern Virginia, led a highly successful and much-needed drive collecting 9,117 items of women’s hygiene products including pads and tampons, and natural deodorant, some pictured here before delivery to LCAC. Ms. Ross and approximately 300 Junior League members were joined in the drive by Ms. Chanda Plair and her "Federally Employed Women Veterans Affairs Monumental Women Chapter", family and friends. The items were delivered to us this week and we'll be getting them out to women at our distributions starting today.
9520 Richmond Highway
Lorton, VA
22079
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Stop by Lorton's Attic Thrift Store for 50% OFF a variety of coats in all colors and sizes! Open Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. & Saturdays 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lorton’s Attic is in need of volunteers! In accordance with CDC guidelines, we have put new safety measures in place to protect volunteers, guests and staff. If you are interested in volunteering, please register here: https://lortonaction.org/volunteer/ If you have any questions in regard to the reopening or our continued COVID-19 response, please contact Linda Patterson via e-mail ([email protected]) or call (703) 339-5161, Ext. 140.
Some of our clients posted heart warming signs on the pantry for all of us to see when we came into work today. What a beautiful way to start off our week. Below is a video they made beforehand. Thank you, neighbors. ❤️😍 #MotivationalMonday
A message from our Executive Director, Linda Patterson, on LCAC's COVID-19 response efforts.
Thank you to Rebecca Geller and Brad Cheney for coming through for us once again! ...This time with 394.4 pounds of food and 1450 snack bags, a total value of $7,928.36. WOW!
Come visit Linda & the LCAC table at the Pentagon (2nd Floor Apex 1 & 2) from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. today! She will be there with plenty of information on upcoming events & volunteer opportunities. #CFC #ShowSomeLove
Such a fun event last night with Abt Associates The River View at Occoquan. Team building + mini-golf holes + food for LCAC's pantry = a wonderful night #helpingourneighbors Thanks for the almost 700 pounds of food! #impact
Our GEM students in the after school program testing their sailboats! Thank you Lindsay Cars and Vulcan Materials for support of our after school program!
It's #WonderfulWednesday at LCAC. YOU helped to make so many things happen for LCAC families! A HUGE thank you to so many who donated, volunteered and spread the word for the Holiday outreach this past weekend. Enjoy some photos celebrating YOUR generosity! #holidayhelp #donatinglove Thank you to John Glover for the photos (he's in the picture with Santa!), to Cranford United Methodist Church and Woodbridge Moose Lodge 583 for hosting the holiday program! Books for our kids courtesy of Books Are Food For Your Brain.
Thank you to the 70+ individuals, businesses, schools and faith communities who helped to ensure families in our community are warm this winter through our Warm Coat Outreach. More than 60 volunteers helped throughout the day to pass out 700+ coats to 108 families.
We will miss our summer lunch/program friends. It has been quite the time with lots of food, laughs, learning and good times! Here a few photos of our final week with an epic water balloon battle, a BBQ with staff, parents, volunteers and our friends Fairfax County Police Department and a celebration for time well spent!
A special shout out to Bobby Kolterman, Eagle Scout candidate from Boy Scout Troop 1100. Bobby wanted to collect, prepare and donate teen hygiene kits for youth coming to LCAC each Friday for our weekend packs! 250 kits are ready to be given out to children and teens in our neighborhood! Thanks Bobby and scouts in Troop 1100 for helping youth in our area!
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