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Overview The image is an outdoor group selfie featuring nine individuals of varying ages and appearances. They are posed closely together on and in front of the steps of a rustic, historic-looking building. Setting and Architecture Building Exterior: The structure has a foundation made of light grey stone blocks and upper walls featuring white wooden siding with heavily peeling and weathered paint. Entrance & Stairs: In the center, a set of wide, aged concrete steps covered in dark moss and grime leads up to a set of closed double doors. The doors are painted white with green rectangular trim panels. An old, dark-colored pipe handrail runs alongside the steps. Signage: On the stone foundation wall to the far left, beneath a window, there is a small white rectangular sign with red lettering that reads: NO TRESPASSING People in the Group Foreground (Selfie-Taker): A man in the lower left foreground is holding the camera. He has dark hair, a neatly trimmed beard and mustache, and is wearing a black baseball cap with a white logo and a grey henley shirt. Front Row: * Next to the selfie-taker is a woman with short, textured blonde hair wearing a vibrant, bright orange hooded windbreaker zipped to the collar. To her right stands a woman with grey-streaked hair and black-framed glasses, wearing dark denim overalls (with a visible Carhartt logo patch on the front pocket) over a white-and-black patterned lace blouse. Middle Row: On the far left, a woman with long dark hair and glasses smiles while wearing a bright blue jacket. She holds a tote bag with a colorful, abstract vertical stripe pattern. Behind the selfie-taker is a woman with straight brown hair wearing a dark, floral-patterned blouse. In the center background stands an older woman with short, cropped white hair wearing a light grey sweatshirt. To her right is a young woman with long dark hair tied back, wearing a green crossbody strap bag and a wide smile. On the far right stands a man with a thick, long red beard and mustache, wearing an olive green t-shirt. Back Row: On the far left, standing on the elevated ground near the stone wall, is an older man with long white hair, a white beard, and glasses, wearing a red and white plaid button-down shirt.

A group of nine people smiling for a selfie in front of the mossy concrete steps of the former Amonate VA Methodist Church.

Since our inception in 1988 through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, CDAC has assisted approximately 200 communities and employed more than 250 students on more than 370 jobs. We have come a long way in 25 years from our first landscape architecture projects to the variety of landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and interior design projects and outreach work we currently do. Our work has helped leverage over $5,000,000 in support for the communities we serve. This includes over 1,000,000 people in 200 towns, cities, counties, and small unincorporated communities across the Commonwealth.

Donations help make it possible to continue our great work in communities even in an environment of declining government funding of state agencies. To help ensure that the communities which rely on our support can continue to receive that support, we are working to build an endowment to augment our yearly operating budget.

Please help us continue to assist the communities of Virginia with your generous donation.


Thank you for your support!