35 Acts of Kindness

UPDATE: WE’VE REACHED OUR GOAL!!!!

Schroeder Design/Build, Inc. celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 2021. To honor the spirit of the anniversary and give back to the community who supported us throughout the years, we launched a campaign we called our 35 Acts of Kindness.

All throughout 2021, we’ve been performing Acts of Kindness through several large donation campaigns, fun and interactive smaller events, and just plain old kindnesses to others. See what we’ve been up to in our list below.

But even though we reached our goal of 35 Acts of Kindness, we’re not stopping here. We’ll continue to perform kind acts throughout 2021…and perhaps beyond!

Sponsor Us

We’re still accepting sponsorships for 35 Acts of Kindness. With your help, we can do so much more. Won’t you join us?

For more information on how to sponsor, or to donate to the 35 Acts of Kindness campaign, contact us at Marketing@SchroederDesignBuild.com.

Or send your donation check to Schroeder Design/Build, 3917 Prosperity Ave., Suite 100, Fairfax, VA 22031. Please flag it for our 35 Acts campaign and let us know if you’d like your name included in our list of awesome sponsors! Any amount is welcome.

Donate Directly

You can also donate directly to one of our nonprofit charities on our behalf. See below for the groups we support and click on their donation links.

Hero Dogs

Hero Dogs is Schroeder Design/Build’s cornerstone project as part of our 35 Acts of Kindness throughout 2021.

Hero Dogs, Inc. is a 401(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the quality of life for our nation’s heroes by raising, training and placing service dogs with veterans of the U.S. military and first-responders with disabilities. Disabilities do not need to be service-related.

Hero Dogs also places skilled home companion dogs with veteran and first-responder families, and facility dogs with qualified clinicians. Hero Dogs volunteers who have adopted released dogs also volunteer with those dogs as therapy dogs, serving thousands of area residents each month.

Read about Hero Dogs in this September 2021 feature article in Tysons Premier Magazine.

You can help support Hero Dogs by donating directly to the organization through our dedicated link:

Donate Here to Hero Dogs

Food for Others

Food for Others is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and an important part of Northern Virginia’s resources for providing food to our region’s hungry. It obtains much of its food through food drives, local merchants, the USDA and crop harvests, and staff and volunteers provide the labor.

Charitable contributions and fundraising events provide the funds to run this organization and are a major part of the Food for Others budget.

You can support Food for Others by donating directly to the organization through our dedicated link:

Donate Here to Food for Others

Good Shepherd Housing

The mission of Good Shepherd Housing is to reduce homelessness, increase community support and promote self-sufficiency. For more than 40 years it has been serving the housing needs of Northern Virginia families and individuals by providing stable and affordable housing as well as the guidance and support to help them succeed. For other client families, GSH provides emergency financial assistance to pay back rent in order to keep them in stable housing.

Donate Here to Good Shepherd Housing

35 Acts of Kindness

Here are some of the organizations and people we’ve already helped:

Hero Dogs – Being a puppy sponsor
Setting up a Hero Dogs donation link/requests for donations
Food for Others – Donating food
Setting up a Food for Others donation link/requests for donations
Sponsoring a family for Thanksgiving
Good Shepherd Housing – raising just under 5,000 books and 118 backpacks for the community’s kids
Gracing Spaces – toy donation
Buying lunch for our local first responders
Complimenting an employee’s daughter on her Quincineara
Buying coffee for a co-worker
Finding a credit card in a store and returning it to its owner
Mowing an elderly neighbor’s yard
Receiving unordered milk in an Instacart order and donating it to a neighbor
Picking up trash outside the building and throwing it away
Helping a woman fix her bike chain while out on a walk
Sending current and past clients a rewards package
Buying coffee for a Vietnam veteran
Watching a friend’s dog for the weekend
Paying for a meal for a firefighter and his son
Complimenting someone’s outfit
Returning grocery carts to the store
Holding the door for someone
Donating books to the library
Donating blood
Paying for groceries for a young family at the register when they didn’t have enough cash
Helping a neighbor fix a headlight
Decorating to surprise a co-worker on becoming a US citizen
Secretly paying for the person behind in the Starbucks line
Taking mom out to lunch
Saving a man from losing his money at the ATM
Rushing in with paper towels when a co-worker spilled lunch all over herself
Washing a co-workers dishes
Letting several cars merge in during rush hour
Finding a lockbox key and mailing it back to the Realtor who lost it
Stopping traffic on I-66 when the woman in front’s tire blew out in the middle lane.
Donating clothing to The Treasure Hound to raise money for pet rescue
Publishing an article about Hero Dogs in Tysons Premier magazine
Giving $25 to a mom in need
Helping a friend with their business
Buying fries for a pregnant co-worker–twice!
Helping another business owner work through employee issues
Listening when a friend was lonely and afraid after a spouse’s death
Giving a hungry family a big bag of apples
Holding a 50/50 raffle to raise money for Hero Dogs
Driving a co-worker to work

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