Our Impact
Discover the inspiring success stories of Touching Heart kids making a difference in their communities and around the world! From leading fundraising events like movie nights and basketball tournaments to making meals for hundreds in homeless shelters, these young changemakers are turning their compassion into action. Their impact reaches from local schools and neighborhoods to orphanages across the globe, demonstrating the powerful difference that comes from creativity, dedication, and hearts ready to serve.
Sing Your Heart Out
Our 3rd Annual Sing Your Heart Out Singing Competition was full of talented kids singing their hearts out for a great cause! This fun event, held at Chefscape in Leesburg, showcased 13 gifted singers who wowed the crowd. Our celebrity judges were on hand to judge the competition and the big winner will have the…
Foster Care Fun Fair
This year was Touching Heart’s 9th year participating in the Fairfax County Foster Care and Adoption Fun Fair. This special event provides an important opportunity for children of adoptive and foster families to spend quality time with their siblings and other family members while being treated to delicious food, games, and prizes. At our popular…
Lion King Movie Night
At Lion King Movie Night, fans gathered excitedly at the Worldgate Theater in Herndon for the release of the new live version of the hit movie. Touching Heart’s Junior Board expertly led this fun sold-out event, which raised funds for Touching Heart programs. Redskins legend, Ken Harvey, was even on hand to speak and inspire…
Summer Service Camp – Fairfax and Ashburn
Touching Heart’s Summer Service Camp expanded this year and was held in both Fairfax and Loudoun Counties, providing many new kids with the opportunity for summer fun and service! Our camp mission was to introduce our campers to the needs of children in our community and around the world and show them how they can…
Virginia Basketball Tournament
With the goal of helping a Philippines’ orphanage, Gentle Hands, our Touching Heart Kids on a Mission team organized and ran a Charity Basketball. Over 50 kids attended and spent the evening playing games, drills, and having fun! Check out pics from this event here!
Graffiti for Good
Creating art with heart was the focus of Graffiti for Good, a sip-and-paint style event that allowed the 100+ attendees to paint and socialize while making a difference! This family-friendly evening included painting your own individual masterpiece with tips from real artists, as well as fun graffiti style artwork, ice cream floats, food, raffles, and a…
Bake Sale
Rachel Carson Middle School also hosted a bake sale at their school, selling delicious goodies to raise funds for children with Albanism in Tanzania.
Monster Golf
Rachel Carson Middle School hosted Monster Golf Putt-putt, one of their many service activities for the year. This event raised funds for a free clinic in one of the most impoverished areas of Uganda. Check out images here!
Northern Virginia Ethical Society
Touching Heart had a great time sharing our mission and making blankets for foster care at this Art of Giving Workshop. We were able to donate 26 cozy homemade blankets to children in need as a result. Click here for more pictures from this workshop.
NYC Basketball Tournament
For returning Touching Heart leaders, Maya Magnus and Marissa Hennigan, this was their second Kids on a Mission Basketball Clinic. Boys and girls, from Pre-K to 8th grade, filled the auditorium at St. Stephen of Hungary School with sounds of laughter, cheers, and sneaker squeaks. Fun games and well-designed drills, along with the enthusiasm of Maya…
Clarksburg HS Big Hero 6 Movie Night
Clarksburg High School in Maryland gathered family members and friends to view Big Hero 6 and raise funds to help support a very special project they have been working on for 2 years, building gardens and planting hundreds of plants to help feed and provide income for children in need at a school in Haiti.
Foster Care Winter Party
Touching Heart was thrilled to once again help support Fairfax County’s Christmas Party for children in foster care! Making crafts with the children and helping them shop for their family members brought smiles to their faces and ours as well! Check out pictures from this event here!
RCMS Ice Skating
Over 130 kids came out to Skatequest to ice skate and to support the RCMS Touching Heart Club as they raised money to help children in need with Albanism in Tanzania. So proud of their hearts to help others!! Check out pictures from this fun event here!
Santa’s Workshop – NYC
On Sunday, December 2nd – kids and their families gathered to start the holiday season with the spirit of giving in New York City. There was delicious food, holiday themed crafts / activities, and dance performances! Kids made cold-care packages for the homeless and everyone brought a present to be wrapped and donated to kids…
Santa’s Workshop – DC
One of our favorite days of the year… Santa’s Workshop! What a heartwarming time it was wrapping gifts for local children in foster care and making cold-weather care packages for homeless members of our community. Crafts, yummy treats, music, and a visit from Santa made the scene perfect! Special thanks to: Crossroads United Methodist Church…