Join Fairfax County staff and your neighbors at a community meeting scheduled for Monday, October 7, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. There you will lean more about the Notional Register of Historic Places nomination for the Randall Estates subdivision, an historic community which was built by pioneering real estate developer Jube B. Shiver, Sr. in the […]
Author: Board Members
Lemuel Dowdy 1946 – 2022
Attorney and MJFI board member, Lemuel Dowdy, passed away on July 31, 2022. The Board wishes to express its deepest condolences to Lemuel’s family. Lemuel served as Board secretary and was instrumental in helping the MJFI set up scholarships at Virginia Union University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University as well as plan its […]
MJFI Helps Higher Education
This spring, the Mildred and Jube Foundation Inc. announced its largest donnations yet to support higher education at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia and North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, North Carolina. In Greensboro, Board Secretary Lemuel Dowdy was on hand to deliver support to a school his father led nearly a half century […]
Back to School
The Mildred and Jube Foundation Inc. gave away more than 300 Back-to-School backpacks over two days in early September 2020 to parents and their children at the Gum Springs Community Center in Fairfax County, Virginia. Social distancing contributed to the long lines outside the in the Community Center parking lot. Nevertheless, there were lots of […]
Founders’ Video
We would like to personally thank you for your support of the Mildred and Jube Foundation Inc. and its inaugural event on November 3, 2019. Many of those who attended the event remarked that they had a wonderful time and were deeply moved. We have posted pictures of the event on both our website, www.mjfi.org, […]
An Inagural Afternoon!
The Mildred and Jube Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization devoted to investing in education, healthcare and the arts, held its inaugural charity event from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on November 3, 2019 at Burgundy Farm Country Day School in Alexandria. The event was hosted by Brittany Johnson, former Social Media Producer for WRC-TV in […]