Each quarter, Schmidt Public Affairs provides donations to four nonprofit organizations of the staff’s choosing. Our staff nominates nonprofit organizations in each of the following categories:

  • Local (An organization serving the Alexandria, VA community)
  • State/Regional (An organization serving the DC-Maryland-Virginia area)
  • National (An organization operating anywhere in the United States)
  • International (An organization operating anywhere around the world)

Below is a list of organizations we have made donations to in since beginning this program:

  • Act for Alexandria
  • Animal Welfare League of Alexandria
  • Bethany House of Northern Virginia
  • Black Women’s Health Imperative
  • Carpenter’s Shelter
  • Casa Chirilagua
  • CASA For Children of DC
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
  • Children International
  • Color of Change
  • Direct Relief
  • Doctors Without Borders
  • For Love of Children
  • Girls Who Code
  • Joey Pizzano Memorial Fund
  • La Clínica del Pueblo
  • Love in ALX – Community Ukraine Refugee Relief Fund
  • Martha’s Table
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Cycle for Survival
  • Mercy Corps
  • N Street Village
  • Native American Rights Fund
  • Reading Partners
  • Shatterproof
  • SMAYL
  • So Others Might Eat (SOME)
  • SOUL Programs
  • Tenants and Workers United
  • Tenants and Workers United Direct Relief Fund
  • The ALS Foundation
  • The American Association of Kidney Patients
  • The Ayenda Foundation
  • The Broad Institute
  • The Child & Family Network Centers
  • The Fund for Black Journalism (via the Local Media Association)
  • The George Lopez Foundation
  • The Greater DC Diaper Bank
  • The Institute for Responsible Citizenship
  • The International Rescue Committee
  • The Jennifer-Bush Lawson Foundation
  • The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington’s Ukraine Emergency Fund
  • The Local Media Foundation
  • The Mourning Family Foundation
  • The National Hospice and Palliative Care Foundation
  • The Pacific Research Institute
  • The Patient Advocate Foundation
  • The Renal Support Network
  • The Trevor Project
  • The University of North Carolina School of African American Studies
  • The University of North Carolina School of Media & Journalism
  • The Women’s Refugee Commission
  • UNICEF
  • US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
  • Wake Forest University Bleyer Studies in Inherited Kidney Diseases
  • Whole Woman’s Health of Alexandria
  • World Central Kitchen