Freedom First Enterprises

To provide funding to roanoke city school system for the construction and outfitting of a permanent clinical space, private meeting and counseling space and programmatic space imbedded within fallon park elementary school located in roanoke, va. The space will be used in part to run a financial empowerment program where students' family and members of the community receive free, one-on-one professional counseling assistance which addresses money management, budgeting, reducing debt, establishing and improving credit, connecting to safe and affordable housing, building assets and savings, addressing transportation and referrals to other service providers and organizations.

To provide funding to blue ridge partnership for health sciences careers. The initiative's goal is to give students in the roanoke and new river valleys and surrounding counties the opportunity to acquire stackable credentials, starting in high school, and continuing through community college or a four-year institution. The intention is to expand the program into a standardized curriculum throughout the commonwealth of Virginia. The claude moore foundation will cultivated a statewide health sciences pipeline to effectively to meet the high demand for health sciences professionals across Virginia.

To provide funding to Freedom First credit union (ffcu) for contributions to eight non-profit organizations in ffcu's service area that promote community and household economy such as poverty reduction, affordable housing, and financial education, health and human services, and arts and culture. Funding was also provided to award college scholarships to area high school students.