Community Learning Centers
At the Community Learning Centers Willow Woods and Fairfax Village in Radford and MeadowView in Pulaski, Beans and Rice provides some combination of the following programs:

• After School Program (ASP) Monday-Thursday from 4:00 to 6:00 PM for K-4th grade focuses on homework time, educational play and games, recreational activities, and cultural and educational enrichment . These children receive a snack and a meal.
• Youth Leadership Program for teens and pre-teens Monday-Thursday 3:30-6:00 PM stresses self discipline, self-esteem, raised aspirations, and high achievement. The program includes academics, service, leadership, and academic enrichment projects. These Youth receive a snack and a meal.
• Mealtime is a hot meal for program participants and the community two to four evenings a week, depending on availability of funding
• Drug Prevention Program for both children and adults . This project is integrated into the existing programming.
• Neighborhood Network Computer Learning Centers are open four days per week and integrated into all other programs.
• Adult Education including a computer literacy class, adult literacy, GED, parenting skills, job readiness, and economic education meet on a regular class schedule.
• Summer Program a ten week program which provides swimming instruction, sports activities, trips to Crow's Nest Farm for environmental and educational activities, a weekly reading program with Radford Public Library, and a weekly sports tournament and pizza party to which the parents are invited.
• Youth Community Garden is a garden plot 20 by 20 at Fairfax Village. Gardening is combined with curriculum around the environment and horticulture.
• Service-Learning Program provides placement for 75 Radford University and Virginia Tech students per semester averaging 30 hours per student. In addition we have developed four in service trainings including 1) Orientation and Teambuilding, 2) Discipline through Conflict Resolution, 3) a White Privilege Workshop and 4) a simulation Life in the State of Poverty.
• Alternative Break participants work in the community learning centers and attend workshops leading to a community development certificate. Beans and Rice is registered with Break Away.
• Scholarship Fund has been established to aid participants in the program in receiving post secondary education.