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Loudoun Now: Loudoun Impact Fund Awards $112K to Nonprofits
Dec 14, 2022 This year, more than $633,000 was requested from 59 organizations, highlighting the scale of community need that continue to increase in the wake of the pandemic and rising inflation. Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties Vice President of Grants and Nonprofit Programs Nicole Acosta noted the long-term impact of the…
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National Endowment for the Arts: NEA Announces American Rescue Plan Grants to Arts Organizations
Jan 27, 2022 Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) today announced it has recommended American Rescue Plan (ARP) awards totaling $57,750,000 to 567 arts organizations to help the arts and cultural sector recover from the pandemic. The organizations may use this funding to save jobs, and to fund operations and facilities, health and…
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Loudoun Now: Loudoun County Supervisors to Vote on $1.8M for Nonprofit Grants
Apr 19, 2021 The Board of Supervisors will vote Tuesday, April 20 on distributing $1.8 million to Loudoun nonprofits with missions ranging from preventing teen suicide, to feeding the hungry, to spreading English literacy. Loudoun County’s annual nonprofit grants have grown in the last several years, as efforts to make funding decisions more based more…
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Loudoun Now: Claude Moore Foundation Completes 2020 Grant Distributions
Mar 3, 2020 The trustees of The Claude Moore Charitable Foundation have concluded their grant cycle for 2020. The Foundation, which was created by Loudoun resident Dr. Claude Moore, pledged or made grants since its conception totaling more than $79 million to various charities. Loudoun-based charities and organizations received more than $22.5 million, including $2,422,000 for…
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AARP: Bridging Sound and Science: Music’s Role in Healing
February 28, 2020 Survivors who sing Standing over a keyboard at the front of a beige conference room on a satellite college campus in Loudon, Virginia, Sweitzer, a music therapist, addressed the dozen or so adults seated in front of him. Some were joined by caregivers; others came solo. Everyone held sheet music. “Let’s start…
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Loudoun Times Mirror: The healing power of music: A Place to Be offers support, community through stroke survivor choir
Dec 31, 2019 One of the greatest challenges for recovering stroke survivors is regaining a sense of self, and the Different Strokes for Different Folks choir gives new meaning to the idea of finding one’s voice. Tom Sweitzer, co-founder of Middleburg-based music therapy organization A Place to Be, began the choir five years ago to help…
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WUSA 9: Fairfax County singer-songwriter uses music to bring awareness to bullying
November 3, 2019 Daniel Derrico, an artist and long time member of our A Place To Be community, spoke to WUSA 9 about his new video, which shares a message of inclusion and working to stop bullying Watch the interview
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Loudoun Times Mirror: One-man show to benefit local arts therapy nonprofit
Sep 6, 2019 Local music therapist Tom Sweitzer will present his one-man show, “Meatballs & Music,” in three performances later this month. All ticket proceeds will benefit his nonprofit organization, A Place to Be, which specializes in music and expressive arts therapy for people facing medical and life challenges. Sweitzer’s two-hour production “takes you on…
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DC News Now: “Different Strokes for Different Folks” program
Jun 4, 2019 A stroke or traumatic brain injury can have devastating effects on someone’s speech, but Inova Loudoun Hospital is teaching survivors how to talk, and sing, once again. Tom Sweitzer, director of the “Different Strokes for Different Folks” program, explains how music can play a crucial role for those who are recovering from strokes and…
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DC News Now: Different Strokes for Different Folks: “Stroke choir” teaches survivors how to talk and smile again
Apr 11, 2019 “I was asleep and I woke up and I said, ‘Oh no.’” Tom Bradfield and his wife, Marina, were headed back from vacation when Tom suffered his second stroke in two years. The first was minor — after a week’s worth of recovery, Tom was back at work. The second, however, had devastating…