About Meadowview First
Building Community. Preserving What Matters.
Meadowview First is a community-driven nonprofit dedicated to strengthening Meadowview through sustainable development, civic participation, and the preservation of the cultural, historic, and environmental resources that make this place unique.
Working together to create opportunity, strengthen connections, and protect the character of Meadowview for generations to come.
Our Mission
Building a Stronger Meadowview Together
Meadowview First works to support long-term, sustainable economic and community development while preserving the cultural, historic, and environmental resources that give Meadowview its identity.
At the heart of that mission is a commitment to bringing people together. We believe communities are strongest when residents are informed, involved, and empowered to help shape the future of the place they call home.
Our work is rooted in open communication, community participation, fairness, honesty, mutual respect, and equality.
Community Participation
Encouraging residents to share ideas, stay involved, and take an active role in the life and future of Meadowview.
Preservation
Protecting the cultural, historic, and environmental resources that make Meadowview distinctive.
Sustainable Development
Supporting responsible growth and opportunities that strengthen Meadowview for the long term.
Fairness & Respect
Keeping honesty, mutual respect, fairness, and equality at the center of our work and decision-making.
A Legacy of Service
A Community With a History of Action
Meadowview has a long tradition of neighbors working together, taking on ambitious projects, and finding ways to improve life for the entire community.
Meadowview Civic Club
The Meadowview Civic Club has served the community for generations, helping support projects that improve the town and strengthen opportunities for local residents.
Investing in Meadowview
Local organizations and residents have worked together on projects including paving Meadowview Square, planting trees, raising community funds, and creating scholarships and recognitions for students at Meadowview Elementary.
Organizations That Keep Meadowview Strong
The Meadowview Volunteer Fire Department, Meadowview Ruritan Club, alumni of the former Meadowview High School, local churches, and other civic groups have all played important roles in serving the community and bringing people together.
The Community Center Takes Shape
As plans for a comprehensive community center grew more complex, residents recognized the need for a broader, community-wide organization that could coordinate planning, bring groups together, and represent the interests of Meadowview as a whole.
That spirit of cooperation ultimately led to the formation of Meadowview First — an organization created to turn shared ideas into lasting community progress.
Why Meadowview First Was Formed
Turning Shared Ideas Into Community Action
As Meadowview’s plans for a comprehensive community center became more ambitious, residents recognized that the work would require coordination, broad representation, and a long-term community vision.
During a community-wide public meeting, citizens agreed to form the Meadowview First Steering Committee. The goal was to bring together people from across the community so planning and decision-making could reflect more than one organization or point of view.
Meadowview First grew from a simple idea: the strongest future for Meadowview would be built by the community itself.
Meadowview First, Inc.
Broad Community Representation
Members came from civic organizations, local churches, and a wide cross-section of the Meadowview community.
Community-Wide Planning
The organization was created to coordinate projects, gather ideas, and move complex community initiatives forward.
Open Public Participation
Public meetings were held to gather community ideas, with more than 100 participants attending individual meetings.
Shared Responsibility
Meadowview First was built around cooperation, accountability, fairness, and a commitment to the common good.
Community Impact
A Health Clinic Built Through Determination
When Meadowview identified the need for greater access to primary health care, residents did more than recognize the problem — they came together to solve it.
Meadowview First acquired and managed grant funding and private donations to secure property for the health clinic and prepare the site for construction. In little more than six months, citizens worked together to raise more than $800,000 in pledges, gifts, and grants to help match support from the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Community members also accepted personal responsibility for long-term financing through the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development Program, helping ensure that enough funding was available to move the project forward.
To expand access to primary health care for uninsured and medically underserved residents of the Meadowview area.
Community Leadership
The People Behind Meadowview First
Meadowview First was founded by community members representing a broad cross-section of local organizations, churches, professions, backgrounds, and generations — all united by a shared commitment to Meadowview’s future.
Leadership built around representation, cooperation, public participation, and service to the entire Meadowview community.
Support Meadowview First
Help Invest in Meadowview’s Future
Meadowview First, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to sustainable economic and community development throughout Meadowview.
Contributions help support the organization’s ongoing work to strengthen the community, preserve important local resources, and move meaningful projects forward.
Donations May Be Mailed To
Meadowview First, Inc.Post Office Box 530
Meadowview, Virginia 24361
Gifts to Meadowview First, Inc. are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Strong communities are built when people choose to invest their time, ideas, and resources in one another.