The 2024 Richmond Christmas Mother program has reached a total of $345,274.42. The Christmas Mother this year is Dr. Lydia Jones Johnson.
The Times-Dispatch follows its tradition of publishing the names of donors to the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund throughout the holiday season. Your generosity helps the fund support initiatives across the region to brighten the holiday season for thousands of your neighbors.
In 2023, the program raised more than $358,000.
The Times-Dispatch has sponsored the Richmond Christmas Mother program, a yearly holiday fund drive, since 1935, some of those years in partnership with the former afternoon newspaper, The Richmond News Leader.
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Donations to the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund are fully tax-deductible. The program is a qualified 501(c)(3) organization. All operational costs are borne by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Visit go.richmond.com/christmasmother to give online or send contributions by mail to Richmond Christmas Mother Fund, P.O. Box 25864, Richmond, VA 23260. Checks should be made payable to Richmond Christmas Mother Fund.
Donations are published in the Sunday and Wednesday editions of The Times-Dispatch and on Richmond.com. The Wednesday list contains donations received through noon on Tuesday; the Sunday list contains donations received through noon on Friday, except for those that included a request for publication on a future date.
Because there will be no printed paper on Jan. 1, Christmas Mother donations will be published in the Sunday and Tuesday papers for that week.
Donations will be accepted and published through the end of January.
Previously reported — $308,847.42
Today’s gifts — $36,427
Grand total — $345,274.42
In honor of all Christmas Mothers, past and present, and in loving memory of Janet Patton Lewis, 1992 Christmas Mother — $30,000
Eugenia H. Schutt, in thanksgiving for family and friends — $100
Carpenter Co. — $3,600
Gardner Phillips, in honor of Dr. Lydia Jones Johnson — $2
Henry G. Chin — $1,000
In memory of Vivian, Harriet, Dudley and Ann. I miss you, from Kathryn — $500
Mary T. Miller, in loving memory of JGM and MLT — $100
Barky’s — $25
Harriet B. “Pooh” Steele, in memory of my husband, William T. “Bill” Steele III — $300
Nancy N. Chege — $300
Amy R. Ewing, in loving memory of my parents, Alice and Milton Ewing, and my sister-in-law and dear friend, Mary Ewing — $100
Margaret Anne Fohl, in honor of Karen Moore and in memory of Fred Moore — $100
Peter-Blair Ltd., in honor of our founder, Dick Fowlkes — $200
