Partners
Beans and Rice, Inc. has been a placement for service-learning students at Radford University since 1997. Students are volunteer staff, site leaders, or interns and come from a variety of programs at the university such as sociology, recreation and leisure services, art education, music therapy, education, and early childhood development.

Beans and Rice is also a community partner with the recently federally funded PACES program out of the School of Nursing. This project is being developed and the specific programming is the early stages of development.

In fall 1999 we registered with the Service-Learning Center at Virginia Tech. Five students in their leadership program and one student with the Social Issues class have been placed in Beans and Rice programs.

We also registered with the Literacy Volunteers at Virginia Tech for a work- study student to do a reading program.

We are registered with the City of Radford Department of Social Services as placement site for welfare to work recipients. To date no referrals have been made.

We partnered with the Radford Public Library in our summer reading program.

We coordinate our work with the Office on Youth. We attend Youth Summit meetings, provide contact for the City of Radford Office on Youth, and are involved in their Youth Leadership Development Project.

Mountain Empire Services provides us with transportation for field trips on a contractual basis.