VOA, long known as Volunteers of America, has officially rebranded to VOA to better reflect our mission of serving more than 2 million a year, powered by a team of 15,000 paid professionals. The nonprofit is keeping its recognizable name while updating its identity, preserving 130 years of history and its mission to help people live healthy, safe and productive lives.
VOA is celebrating its first-ever Operation Backpack® Week in 2026, spotlighting backpack distribution events across the country. Building on more than two decades of back-to-school support, the nationwide campaign will provide upwards of 50,000 backpacks filled with essential school supplies to low-income students.
Volunteers of America (VOA), one of the nation’s oldest and largest human services providers, welcomes Ericka Fusilier as Executive Vice President of External Affairs beginning June 1, 2026. She will be based at VOA’s national headquarters in Alexandria, Va.
As America’s senior population grows and social isolation becomes an increasing concern, new research shows that technology can play a powerful role in helping older adults stay healthy, connected and independent when solutions are designed in partnership with residents rather than for them.
Volunteers of America receives $1.46M grant from the Humana Foundation to pilot a new program in affordable housing housing to address depression and substance abuse.
Ayesha Khan, Chief Development Officer at Volunteers of America-Greater New York, joined panelists at Concordia Annual Summit to speak about how public-private partnerships can be solutions to America’s housing crisis.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awards 18 grants totaling $101M to help veterans and their families find safe, supportive housing.
With the support of Humana Healthy Horizons, Volunteers of America is poised to help women and children receive behavioral health services.
VOA presented its first-ever Transformative Philanthropy Award to Denver philanthropist Sharon Magness Blake, in recognition of her decades-long partnership with VOA.
Family-focused recovery: A new model of healing that keeps families together is having wild success in Kentucky.
