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Worthdays is a 501(c)(3) organization in Virginia whose mission is to mobilize the community to ensure that those impacted by the foster care system know they are important, worthy and celebrated.

10/16/2026

It's always a JOY to look back at prior years' Worthdays Holiday Program drop-off event and a great reminder that the holidays are right around the corner!

Every year, our community comes together to make sure children and youth in our local foster care system who would otherwise go uncelebrated have gifts chosen just for them. Sponsors receive an individual child’s wish list, including both things they’d love and essential items they need.

Our program is about creating moments of joy, responding to needs that may have gone unmet throughout the year, and reminding each young person that they are seen, known, and worthy of being celebrated. Child welfare social workers throughout our area are currently making their lists, with the help of children and families, and checking them twice!

The list of children needing a holiday sponsor goes live October 27! The good news - you don’t have to do it alone! Team up with friends, coworkers, your book club, or faith community to sponsor a child together during the month of November. You'll feel good about moving into the busy month of December having already made the holiday possible for kids in our community!

We will never take for granted those in our village who make this program possible every single year! We have lots of ways to get involved. Check the comments to get all the information about how to get involved!

Yesterday was such a special day celebrating 10 years of Worthdays! 💛When I started Worthdays 10 years ago, I had an ide...
10/13/2026

Yesterday was such a special day celebrating 10 years of Worthdays! 💛

When I started Worthdays 10 years ago, I had an idea and a hope that I could help children impacted by foster care feel seen, remembered, and celebrated. What I didn’t fully understand then was that I was never meant to do it alone. Yesterday was a beautiful reminder of just how many people have become part of this story. From our donors and volunteers to our sponsors, agency partners, and everyone who has found a way to help along the way, Worthdays is what it is today because of this incredible community.

Thank you to everyone who has been part of these last 10 years. Thank you for showing up, for saying yes, for helping us meet needs both big and small, and for believing that joy matters. I’m so grateful for every person who has helped us keep this promise to children.

I don’t know exactly what the next 10 years will look like, but I hope we keep showing up, keep finding ways to help, and keep reminding children and families that they matter.

And if yesterday was any indication, I know we won’t be doing it alone. Thank you to everyone who has ever shared a post, sponsored a child, purchased from a wishlist, donated your hard earned money or shared your time 💛

It’s a great day to celebrate a birthday! It is officially November birthday time and we would love for you to join us i...
10/07/2026

It’s a great day to celebrate a birthday! It is officially November birthday time and we would love for you to join us in ensuring a young person in foster care is celebrated! No need to do it alone - sponsoring as a group or creating a wishlist and sharing it on your socials usually results in a great group effort!

We have birthdays in RVA (Richmond, Chesterfield, Henrico, Hanover, Goochland), TriCities (Hopewell, Petersburg and Dinwiddie), NOVA (Alexandria) and James City Co that need to be celebrated this month! Our organization ensures kids in our local foster care system are celebrated on their birthdays. We’d love for you to join us this month by creating a birthday box for one of our November birthdays.

Here’s how it works - in the comments you will find a document with all of the birthdays we need help celebrating along with all the information about our birthday box program! Check it out and then come back here and let us know which birthday you’d like to help celebrate (ex. I’d like to celebrate RVA, C) by commenting on this post. All birthdays crossed out have already been assigned to someone (and this post is cross-posted)! Please ensure you are selecting a birthday in your area and are able to drop off at the corresponding drop off location.

Once you’ve selected a birthday and commented, we will confirm with you that you’ve been assigned the birthday and will send additional information within the next 24 hours!

Have questions? Please us know below! By simply loving this post or sharing it with someone who might be interested in ensuring kids in our community know they are so incredibly worthy, you are helping us to spread the word! 🎉

[A huge thanks to our October sponsors, some of which are pictured, who went above and beyond to ensure our October birthdays were celebrated!]

Five years of lights, joy, community, and, most importantly, making an impact on the young people we serve.What we’ve le...
10/05/2026

Five years of lights, joy, community, and, most importantly, making an impact on the young people we serve.

What we’ve learned over the years is that it’s not necessarily about the brightest or biggest display. It’s about the people who are willing to make the biggest impact.

Your display doesn’t have to be perfect. It doesn’t have to be on the Tacky Light Tour. It just needs to bring some joy, create a little magic, and help us spread holiday cheer.

And every dollar raised makes a difference. The funds from this campaign allow us to support young people in foster care during the holidays and throughout the year, helping meet needs that might otherwise go unmet and reminding these young people that they are seen, valued, and remembered.

Sign up and we’ll provide the sign. You share it with your friends, family, and neighbors, and together we can light up our community while making the holidays a little brighter for young people in foster care.

Let’s make this our brightest year yet! ❤️ learn more by visiting the link below in our comments!

This morning, Midlothian Kroger Store #523 celebrated recent renovations and enhancements with a ribbon cutting and inc...
10/02/2026

This morning, Midlothian Kroger Store #523 celebrated recent renovations and enhancements with a ribbon cutting and included Worthdays in that celebration with a generous $1,500 donation to support the children and families we serve.

We’re especially grateful for the personal connection behind this gift. The store’s manager and his family have volunteered with Worthdays, personally helping us celebrate children in our community and social workers working alongside these children. Our volunteers and supporters are often the ones recommending Worthdays in rooms where it matters and those conversations open doors to meaningful partnerships and support such as this!

And a fun full-circle detail: the newly renovated Midlothian store includes an expanded and dedicated Ukrop's Homestyle Foods section (hello, rainbow cookies!), which made the morning especially meaningful for our founder, whose first job was at Ukrop’s Carytown! The store is located in Chesterfield County, where she previously worked in child welfare and was our very first pilot agency for the Worthdays’ Birthday Box program 10 years ago.

Thank you, Kroger Store #523, for investing in our community and helping Worthdays celebrate and meet the needs of even more kids in our local foster care system! A special thank you to Wes and Kacy for your support 🎉

Birthday box delivery looked a little brighter and bigger than usual this month! It’s another reminder that EVERYONE can...
10/01/2026

Birthday box delivery looked a little brighter and bigger than usual this month! It’s another reminder that EVERYONE can do SOMETHING to make an impact on foster care! A balloon company hears about the work we do and donated balloons for each of our birthday kids this month - another small way of sending you message ‘you are so, so worthy’!

Thank you so much GoGo Glam Co. 💕

One of the biggest honors we have is supporting the child welfare staff who do this work day in and day out.They are the...
09/24/2026

One of the biggest honors we have is supporting the child welfare staff who do this work day in and day out.

They are the ones who are many times tasked with the impossible. The ones who carry the stories of people navigating some of their hardest days. The ones who answer the calls, stay late, and go to great lengths most people don’t have any idea about. The ones navigating the unpredictability of the system — and the needs of the children and families it serves — every single day. Worthdays and For Richmond partnered to create a morning that was simply for them and thanks to Hill City Church we had a perfect spot to do so!

About 30 community organizations came together for a Child Welfare Resource Fair for child welfare staff from across Metro Richmond + the TriCities — sharing resources, making connections and supporting the people who are supporting children and families.

There was breakfast (thanks Chick-fil-A Willow Lawn, lots of raffle prizes (thanks to those who donated) and giveaways, along with time to step away from the work for a little while. A mindfulness, meditation and yoga session (by Erin Provencher ) gave attendees a chance to pause, followed by The Power of Pause with Amanda Lynch of Rethinking Resiliency & The Safety Lab (The Safety Lab ), who shared practical tools for self-care in the realities of child welfare work.

We are grateful for mornings like this that bring together so many in our community doing such important work! ❤️

Today we received this message from a local social worker - “I have a question. I am working a 12-year-old who just came...
09/02/2026

Today we received this message from a local social worker -

“I have a question. I am working a 12-year-old who just came into foster care and really hasn't been living anywhere stable for a long time.

When I was talking with the foster parent, they asked if there was a way to get a used gaming system. I asked around the office to see if there was a service or resource, but no one had any ideas. His birthday isn’t for some time so I was hoping to find something before that.

I thought it wouldn't hurt to reach out and see if you know of anything or anyone who offers that for foster kiddos”

Anyone happen to have a gaming system that’s collecting dust but in good working order that you’d like to donate to this young man? We’d love to be able to give this kid a little piece of normalcy🥳

What a JOY it was to be with our friends at Truist earlier this week! We were so impressed with their Pop-Up Service Day...
08/28/2026

What a JOY it was to be with our friends at Truist earlier this week! We were so impressed with their Pop-Up Service Day where they worked on a special project for us. We won’t spoil the surprise of what they worked on quite yet but we can assure you it was amazing! We left with such gratitude for what this group did to serve our local foster care community. An extra special thanks to Marlee, Deborah and Roshell who may us feel like part of the team and went above and beyond!

Fear not, we will be sure to share more about this service project soon! Any guesses of what all those boxes are for? Who has a guess on how many boxes?

Many thanks to our friends at Caring Closet for your help transporting the overflow of boxes back to Shineforth when one car wasn’t enough!

We have the unique honor of seeing the good in humanity all the time. This month it comes in so many forms to include: -...
08/28/2026

We have the unique honor of seeing the good in humanity all the time. This month it comes in so many forms to include:

- a sponsor learning the young man they were celebrating was interested in welding and going to J Sargent Reynolds Community College to gather information on their welding program to include in the birthday box.

- a sponsor checking back in with us about a young man she celebrated last year to offer to send him something special for the start of the school year.

- a sponsor going to great lengths to find the perfect shoe a youth wanted.

- a family including their favorite cake recipe in the birthday box for the young woman who loves baking

- a sponsor creating a young man experiencing homelessness one of the viral ‘junk drawers’ for him to have as he works towards transitioning into a new placement complete with all the things a mom might think about (Tylenol, batteries, scissors and so much more)

- a sponsor getting all the things the child wanted and then thanking US for the joy they experienced as part of this process.

- a sponsor who chose all the kids favorite books, and the one who picked all the light purple things because that’s the youth’s favorite color and the one who embroidered the child’s name on the bag.

And yet in each of the stories of the youth we celebrate in September, there’s so much tough stuff. The kid who has had multiple placement disruptions in the past month; the one who is currently experiencing homelessness; the one who is currently missing because she ran away when her mom didn’t show up for a visit and the young person starting over in another state because they just want a fresh start.

We hope each one feels for even just a moment that someone cared. They they are seen for so much more than the terrible things in their chart. That all of their favorite things were noticed and matter. That even though the world has been cruel, it can also be kind.

We celebrated a record number of kids who have upcoming September birthdays and we are so incredibly grateful to each and every person who made if possible ❤️ we promise your giving makes a difference!

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Richmond, VA
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