Eager to support American troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Riderwood community members and staff recently joined the efforts of Operation Welcome Home. Since March 2007, this dedicated group of volunteers has greeted 55 flights and more than 12,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines coming through the gates of the Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).  

Proving that the selfless acts of a few can help many, Riderwood Hospice Knitters have volunteered more than 1,250 hours creating shawls for hospice patients and their caregivers at the Casey House, an inpatient facility of Montgomery Hospice.

In a partnership with High Point High School, in Burtonsville, Md., gardeners at Riderwood travel  to the school twice a week to share their agricultural knowledge with the students in exchange for year-round use of the school’s greenhouse.