Community Involvement

REACH - Big Free Bookstore
What We’re About
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
– The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
Founded in 1998 by a Virginia Beach educator, REACH began with volunteers reading, crafting, and providing books to children in homeless and domestic violence shelters. Nearly 26 years later, we continue this mission by ensuring all children have access and ownership to books that are developmentally appropriate, culturally diverse, and spark imagination. As the area’s “food bank of books,” we partner with 180+ teachers, programs, and agencies to support their literacy initiatives. Our program, The Big Free Bookstore, is the only one in the U.S. that distributes new books, school supplies, and hosts activities at no cost, serving thousands of families annually. In the last four years, we’ve increased our distribution from 34,460 books ($297,440 value) to 151,617 books ($1,689,212 value)!
Our Mission & Vision
REACH’s mission is to promote literacy for children who are at-risk and homeless throughout Coastal Virginia.
Our vision is to invest, build, and support literacy by:
– Promoting reading comprehension and writing skills in collaboration with community partners.
– Providing the largest number of new and gently loved books to our community.
-Providing progressive literacy resources through continued access to books and programs.

Fostering Acadia
We recently provided laundry services for this wonderful organization. Organizations like this are very important to creating stable families and communities.
Like many good stories, ours starts with two people, connected by a mission: to improve lives for young adults with lived experience in foster care. As young adults themselves, Jason and Rebekah were involved with serving teens in foster care, which kindled a passion in them both for this population. From there they served as foster parents, worked in group homes, and supported foster families through in-home services. As they watched their foster children enter independent living, it was clear that better services should be available for all kids exiting the foster care system in Virginia.
Thanks to their unique perspective, they identified several key factors for success for these young adults: building strong relationships with supportive adults, a welcoming home they could take pride in, celebrating progress, meeting tangible physical needs previously out of reach, access to recreational activities to spur personal growth, connection to resources and networks to better their situation, and finally – a roadmap of specific goals to keep them on a positive trajectory into adulthood.
Changing outcomes on a large scale requires every Fostering Acadia staff member to embody the values behind our services. Our FA professionals are passionate about enacting positive change for every individual we serve. And while equipping young adults to exceed their current expectations demands a dedicated team, it is best accomplished when the whole community takes an interest and gets involved.

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Coastal Virginia Laundry – Community
Coastal Virginia – Chesapeake, VA
Phone: 757-317-2732
*Open Everyday: 6:00am-10:00pm
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Testimonials
I have been using the big machines for 25 plus years. The facility is almost always clean because they are constantly cleaning, nothing new.
All machines were operational, and in good keeping. We used it after a weekend of camping at first landing, perfect for cleaning clothes while we cleaned up our campsite. great location for wrapping up a weekend!!
This location is a quick walk from my apartment. The machines are well-maintained, and the laundromat itself is very clean. They have an array of different detergents to use, and using the app to pay is super simple. I have run into the owners a couple of times, and they are extremely nice.


