Photo Gallery
Balint Charities in action!
- Richmond Va elementary students were the latest recipients of musical instruments made possible by our generous donors!
- Reston Va elementary students enjoying their newly donated instruments. Made possible by you!
- Getting instruments into the hands of children who need them is what we do.
- Houston Area Head Start Program
- Thanks to a local Preschool Book Drive, these children at Higher Horizons Head Start & Early Head Start not only had a story read to them during Family Literacy Night, they all got to take some home.
- Band teacher and students at Lake Anne ES happily help move instruments from the car to the classroom. All of these instruments were donated to BC for young musicians.
- Second delivery to the Houston area Head Start program. The flood waters may have subsided but the need is still great.
- Annandale Terrace ES students benefit from your donations.
- Greg Balint, right, with a representative from the Harris County Texas Department of Education. Thank you to our Texas donors who are helping us rebuild home libraries for children in the Houston area.
- Patty Maddox delivered musical instruments to Plaza Middle School in Virginia Beach.
- An elementary school in Florida was our recent recipient of books.
- Brownie volunteers place Barb’s Books stickers on over 600 books. Such great helpers!
- Thanks again to the Greater Falls Run Lions Club donation to Balint Charities, Ms. Horn’s music classes in Fredericksburg received instruments.
- Thanks to a donation from the Greater Falls Run Lions Club, Ms. Hankerson at Lafayette Upper ES received much needed musical equipment delivered by Aimee Balint Karaitis.
- A big THANK YOU to Cru and CJ Rodgers and MaryJo Lambert for stickering nearly 200 books for the Punxsutawney Head Start programs!
- Your donations at work and expanding BCI into another state. The children at Nashville Classical Charter School thank you!
- Happy young musicians at Annandale Terrace Elementary. We could not provide items like these without our donors! Thank you your giving spirit!
- Jen Witter and Gail Romanofsky of Steelton-Highspire ES in Harrisburg, Pa., received a large delivery of musical instruments and accessories. Thanks, Sue Parry, for connecting Balint Charities to this music program!
- Thanks, again, to our volunteers for delivering nearly 600 books to Higher Horizons. We appreciate your time and effort, and always with smiles! — with Cassidy Milne, Sam Balint, Higher Horizons Head Start & Early Head Start and Fairfax County Public Schools.
- Volunteers putting stickers on nearly 1500 books – and in record time! Thank you, Rebekah and Sam, for your help!
- Delivering books to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program in Pennsylvania. Thanks Debbie Eggleston for making the delivery for us.
- Sam delivers books to Graham Road ES
- Another PA delivery – this time to the Irwin Head Start program.
- A big THANK YOU to volunteer, Debbie Eggleston, for this delivery of books to the Jeanette Head Start program in Pennsylvania.
- We thank our donors for helping to put smiles on these students’ faces!
- A BIG book delivery to The Campagna Center in Alexandria. Thank you to volunteers, Sam Balint and Cassidy Milne, for visiting the Center.
- Our 10,000th book was received by Woodbridge Pediatrics. We have been providing books to this Reach Out and Read participants for over 3 years.
- Thanks to you, Falmouth ES is able to expand their music program with ukuleles!
- Woodlawn ES receives a violin, viola and cellos thanks to our wonderful donors!
- Another elementary school receives musical instruments! — with Hartwood Elementary School PTA in Hartwood, Virginia.
- Another book delivery! Thanks to volunteer Sam Balint for delivering books to Georgetown South Early Head Start program.
- Jonathan McCormick, Weems ES, receives instruments for his music program.
- Thank you to Prince Of Peace Lutheran School for another successful book drive!
- Richmond Public Schools received 85 much needed instruments. 100 books also went to one of their preschools.
- Kathleen meets Christie-Jo Adams, K-12 Instructional Specialist for Richmond Public Schools.
- In addition to 290 recorders, Hartwood Elementary School in Fredericksburg, VA. received several percussion instruments.
- Cynthia Peshek , MA RD, Interim Outreach Program Manager for Ampla Health received books for their Reach Out and Read patients.
- Kathleen delivered keyboards to Falmouth Elementary School in Falmouth Virginia as part of our Fran’s Bands program.
- A donated guitar makes its way into a Richmond elementary school.
- In lieu of personal gifts for his birthday, this awesome young man collected musical items to donate to Balint Charities.
- Mitch Axman accepts a donation of musical equipment from Balint Charities. Mitch goes above and beyond for his students at Independent Hill School, PACE East Program in Prince William County Virginia.
- Kathleen delivered musical instruments and music method books to Music Teacher Lisette Armstrong at Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology.
- Higher Horizons Head Start receives a large donation of books for their program.
- Kathleen collecting books that were donated to the BCI Book Drive sponsored by the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield, VA.
- Fran and Barbara Balint delivered musical instruments to the children at the Fredericksburg Regional Head Start program.
- Our book donations to Reach Out and Read help children like this at the Martin Luther King-Children’s Health Center and the Good Hope Road-Children’s Health Center in Washington D.C.
- BCI is supporting the Indiana Pennsylvania Head Start program by supplying books for their children.
- Kathleen delivered band instruments to the music teachers at Hybla Valley Elementary school in Alexandria, VA.
- BCI donated nearly 1000 books to Comfort Cases, an organization that provides the essentials to children on their journey to find a home through the foster care program.
- A student in Virginia Beach, Va. receives a huge musical surprise that will bring him hours of joy. Patti Balint Maddox presented the guitar and amplifier.
- The Langley High School Spanish Club in McLean, VA collected books for Balint Charities. Their sponsor, Jen Stocks, presented the books.
- Our first delivery to Rising Hope Mission Church in Alexandria Virginia.
- Thank you to Brownie Troop 4902 for their service project to support Balint Charities. We spent a fun evening with the girls as they cleaned and placed Barb’s Books stickers on the books they collected.
- We’ve delivered books to the Fredericksburg, VA. Head Start program!
- Kathleen and Barb delivering books to the Overby-Sheppard Elementary School Head Start program in Richmond, VA .
- The kids at Miss Prather’s class in Richmond, VA. gave us a BIG hug to thank us for the djembes.
- Kathleen visited Georgetown University in August 2013 to pick-up books from the Student Affairs department.
- Our first donation of books to The Campagna Center in Alexandria Virginia.
- The staff at Woodbridge Pediatrics receiving it’s first book donation from Balint Charities President Kathleen Christesen.
- Fran and Barbara Balint putting Barb’s Books stickers on books to be donated.