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A 501c3, our mission is to actively engage & bring the community together to help the food-insecure.

10/08/2026

“Every heart tells a story”

Friends, we’re so excited to share that local favorite Viet Aroma Asian Cuisine, led by the lovely Lani, has selected Rustic Love as their October “Hearts of Vienna” community impact partner! 🧡

For every heart message added to their vibrant heart wall, Viet Aroma will donate $1 to Rustic Love, with a goal of raising $500 to support our mission. ✨

And that’s not all! Throughout October, Viet Aroma is also hosting a food drive to collect essential pantry items for Poe Middle School. 💛 Drop off any of the requested items below, and if you’re dining in, you’ll receive a complimentary order of fresh summer rolls or tofu puffs! 🥬

🔸Rice, red or black beans, cooking oil, sugar, pasta, Maseca🔸 (unopened, please)

A huge thank-you to Lani and the entire Viet Aroma team for this wonderful community partnership. We’re so grateful for businesses that show up for local students and families in such meaningful ways. Your support truly makes a difference! 🧡

10/07/2026

🍚 BRING A BAG. WE’LL BRING THE ROLLS. 🥢❤️

Vienna, help us fill Poe Middle School’s pantry this October with . 🧡

Bring a new, unopened bag of rice — or another needed pantry staple:
cooking oil • pasta • beans • sugar • Maseca

Stopping by just to donate? We’d love that too. And if you stay for a meal, we’ll treat your table to Fresh Summer Rolls OR Viet Aroma Tofu Puffs for our vegan and vegetarian friends as our little thank-you. ❤️

One bag. One heart. One pantry a little fuller.

One complimentary appetizer per table with a dine-in entrée purchase, while supplies last.

📍 Viet Aroma Asian Cuisine
165 Glyndon St SE • Vienna, VA 221
☎️ 703-865-6664 • 703-865-6665
🌐 VietAromaVienna.com
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10/01/2026

It’s October 1st! 🧡
Time to decorate pumpkins! 🎃

If you’re a patient of Ghaffari Orthodontics on Church St, you know they have the kindest staff in town! (Shoutout to Shirley for her kind heart and beautiful Irish accent! 😍) This year, their office is hosting a fun Pumpkin Designing Contest. 🧡Just bring your decorated pumpkin to their office and on October 27th, they’ll pick one winner to receive a $150 gift card of their choice! It’s that easy! Plus, for every submission, they’ll make a donation to Rustic Love. 💟 What a fun partnership! 🎃

Foam pumpkin, real pumpkin, white pumpkin, mini pumpkin – you choose your pumpkin canvas!

We can’t wait to see your boo-tiful masterpieces!
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09/30/2026

Our fourth and final donation to honor was our fifth total donation to South Lakes High School PTSA’s pantry and brings our total lifetime donations to FCPS school pantries to $230,000!

South Lakes Pantry serves over 200 families each week - including families from their entire school pyramid. They have a devoted team of volunteers, most of whom have worked at the pantry for years and their kids have graduated from the school.

The SLHS Pantry is a model pantry, as they have cultivated relationships and acquire food from Capital Area Food Bank, Trader Joe’s, Cornerstones, Whole Foods and Wegmans, thus they are able to very efficiently stock their pantry for such a large number of families each week!

We are proud to help provide financial assistance to their pantry again this school year and are so grateful to all of our supporters who support easing food-insecurity in our schools. Thank you!

09/22/2026

💙 Running a school pantry takes more than putting food on a shelf. It takes time, love, organization, fundraising, and dedicated volunteers willing to keep it going.

🍏 At a middle school, the challenge is even greater. Families move through more quickly, so the needs, volunteers and fundraising base are constantly changing. And with grocery prices rising, pantry budgets are more stretched than ever.

💙 We’re honored that Rustic Love can help lighten the load for these incredible volunteers – and, most importantly, help provide nutritious food to students during such important years of growth, both academically and physically.

🍏 Our third grantee is the Kilmer Middle School PTA. This is Rustic Love’s seventh grant to Kilmer, and we’re honored to help ease food insecurity for children and families at the school.

💙 Kilmer’s pantry provides bags of food and essentials to 45 families each month, including toiletries, period supplies and laundry detergent. Our grant helps sustain the pantry for several months of the school year – a need that has become increasingly important over the past six years as circumstances have changed significantly.

🍏 Thank you to Kilmer’s PTA and dedicated pantry team for continuing to meet these important needs for kids and families in our community.

09/16/2026

🍎 Every school pantry is unique in how it is funded, managed, and how it serves its community. Some are small, sending food home once a month in backpacks, while others serve entire school pyramids and see long car lines each week, with drivers sometimes picking up food bags for multiple families.

💛 But they all have one thing in common: they are powered by teams of volunteers with huge hearts.

🍎 Rustic Love has donated to 16 different FCPS school pantries, giving our Board of Directors a front-row seat to the many ways these pantries serve their communities.

💛 As part of our four-part grant series in honor of , our second donation this month went to one of the powerhouse pantries in our area: The Oakton Pantry at Oakton High School.

🍎 The Oakton Pantry is unique in several ways. It serves not only Oakton High School families, but also makes food distributions available to the entire Oakton community. It also has an incredible network of student volunteers through the popular Pantry Club, where students help pack, sort, and organize donations each week.

💛 And unlike many school pantries, The Oakton Pantry is completely operated by a non-school-based nonprofit, The Eddie Hurley Project. EHP carries out charitable ventures in memory of, and inspired by, the life of Eddie Hurley. Be sure to check out this amazing organization, which is supported by so many members of Eddie’s family.

🍎 Over the past six years, Rustic Love has supported The Oakton Pantry with grants totaling $40,000 – vital funds that have directly benefited children and families dealing with food insecurity throughout the Oakton community.

💛 We are so proud to have played a small part in supporting their incredible work.

As the mural at Oakton High School reminds us: ✨“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ✨

09/12/2026

September is Hunger Action Month, which is a national campaign to raise awareness and inspire action to end hunger in America. 🍎

Through your generous donations to Rustic Love, each September we provide financial grants to FOUR FCPS schools to support their amazing food pantries. 🌽

As food prices remain high and household bills continue to put pressure on family budgets, putting meals on the table is becoming increasingly difficult for families and individuals everywhere. Food is a basic human need, and every child deserves access to proper nutrition so they can thrive at school. 📚

Our first grant recipient was Cunningham Park Elementary School, right in the heart of Vienna. CPES has a 35% participation rate in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program. Due to space limitations, their pantry is currently able to serve 38 families, with biweekly distributions to families experiencing the greatest need within their school community. 🍓

Andrew Chapel United Methodist Church has been a critical partner in this effort, storing, packing and delivering pantry supplies every two weeks. Rustic Love’s grant will help the pantry purchase fresh foods, including fruits, vegetables and dairy products, to supplement the items provided to school families.🥛

We’re proud to stand alongside CPES as they care for children and families in our community. And we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who makes these grants possible through your generosity.
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08/31/2026

Your donations to Rustic Love make an incredible difference in the lives of school children and families in our community! 💙

This past spring, Sleepy Hollow Elementary School in Falls Church received a Rustic Love grant to support their efforts to provide summer food bags to families in their school community. Each bag was filled with food and essential provisions to help sustain a family for several weeks – and the pantry was able to serve more than 70 families! 💙

Thank you to our amazing community for continuing to support local families, and to the dedicated team at SHES for their unwavering commitment to the children and families they serve. 💙

08/24/2026

It’s the first day of school for FCPS! 🏫 Best of luck to everyone, including all the college students who are back on campus. 💟 Rustic Love has magnets in colors representing Vienna high schools and many Virginia universities. 🧡 Order yours today or check out the magnet selection hosted by Norm's B**r & W**e. Online order link for shipping is in the comments below.

Have a great first day! 📚

08/20/2026

Thank you to our wonderful partner Texas Donuts - Vienna for hosting our new coroplast heart signs these past few months and helping us raise more than $4,000!
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We love seeing our signs (and getting our donut fix!) at Texas Donuts, and we’re so grateful for this special collaboration. Thanks to owner Hoang Ton for welcoming our Board Treasurer, Jennifer Bernstein, at the shop this morning. 🍩💟

As always, proceeds from our sign sales directly support kids and families experiencing food insecurity in our community. Thank you for helping us make a difference! 💙

Address

167 Glyndon St SE
Vienna, VA
22180

Website

https://www.rusticlove.org/, https://rustic-love-vienna.myshopify.com/

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