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Virginia Dodge named 2021 Berks Athena Award recipient
Stacy Wescoe//March 29, 2021//
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The Greater Reading Chamber Alliance has named Virginia Dodge, president of VA Productions, as its 2021 Athena Award recipient.
The award is given out each year to a woman as an honor for professional excellence, community service and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills.
VA Productions is a full-service video production company based in Shillington, which serves both local and multinational companies with video, audio/visual and event planning services. Dodge formed the company after she was laid off during the recession back in the 1990s.
She has been very active in the community having served as president of the local Rotary Club in 2017 and serving on the committee of the local YMCA, Leadership Berks, the Olivet Boys & Girls Club and the Reading Civic Theatre.
In 2015 she started “Princess with a Purpose,” a mentoring effort to help young girls living in the Bethany Children’s Home.
She engages the group in conversations about being brave, resourceful, honest and caring and each girl gets a mini tiara.
In her spare time she also makes custom jewelry, which she sells at craft fairs and events with the profits given to her “Gifts that Give Back” charitable fund, which is administered through the Berks County Community Foundation.
She has raised thousands of dollars through the effort.
