• September 27, 2017

Hampton Roads Initiative Expands With Health and Hope for the Raleigh, N.C.-area Homeless Population

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — September 25, 2017: The concern that sparked a life-changing initiative for hundreds throughout Hampton Roads is headed across the border, where, according to the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Point-in-Time Count, respectively, Wake County, North Carolina, has the second highest rate of homelessness statewide with a reported… Read More »

• November 9, 2016

Run from Virginia Beach to D.C. to help fight homelessness

https://southsidedaily.com/2016/10/30/run-from-virginia-beach-to-d-c-to-help-fight-homelessness/

• August 4, 2016

Jess Horton on the Nora Firestone Show

Guest Jess Horton, ACE-certified personal trainer, discusses the impact of the Jim White Fitness Foundation’s LIFT program and upcoming White House 2 White House relay against homelessness.

• December 29, 2015

Giving the Community a LIFT: Jim White Community Fitness Foundation

Jim White, of Jim White Fitness and Nutrition Studios, was teaching an evening boot camp to clients at the Virginia Beach oceanfront when he was taken aback by the homeless people sleeping on benches, living in despair and inactive. It was in that moment that LIFT was born. LIFT, which stands for Lifting spirits, Improving… Read More »

• December 4, 2015

Virginia Beach program aims to “lift” people out of poverty and homelessness

Virginia Beach Fitness Studio owner Jim White started the Lift program three years ago and it’s helped 100 people go from helpless to hopeful.