Support DVL Cleaning Group

Fifteen years ago, when I started DVL Cleaning Group, my dream was simple. Create dignified work for immigrant women, and help families and businesses across Northern Virginia have homes and workplaces they could be proud of. Along the way, something unexpected happened. We became part of your lives.

Some of you have been with us for a decade or more. You know our cleaners by name. They know your children’s names. You have shared cookies at Christmas. You have written us handwritten letters when someone in our team went through a hard time. You are not just clients. You are family.

If you have felt that from us, and you want to help us keep doing this work, this page is for you.

Simple Ways to Help Us

None of these cost you money. Every one of them helps us reach the next family or business that needs our help.

Why Word-of-Mouth Matters More Than You Think

We have never spent a dollar on paid advertising in fifteen years. Every single client has come through a Google search, a review, or a friend who told them about us. This is not a business decision. It is a business philosophy.

Paid advertising would grow us faster. But paid advertising would also change who we are. It would shift us toward chasing customers instead of serving clients. Word-of-mouth keeps us honest. Every referral from you is a signal that we deserve to grow.

The Cleanings You Do Not See on Our Website

I want to tell you something we do not talk about much publicly. Every year, our team takes on cleaning jobs at a financial loss. Not because we are naive about running a business. Because we see people who need help and we cannot walk away.

A REAL STORY (NAMES CHANGED)

The Alexandria Hoarding Call

A woman called us on a Tuesday morning in October, her voice trembling. Her elderly mother had been living alone. When she went to visit for the first time in eight months, she found the apartment overwhelmed. Belongings from decades stacked to the ceiling. Rot. Rodents. She was ashamed to ask for help.

She could not afford our full hoarding cleaning rate. She was already stretched thin caring for her mother. She said she understood if we could not help.

We took the job at cost. Three of our team members spent two full days there. We did not tell her we were losing money. We just did the work. Her mother came home to a clean, safe apartment. She hugged our team lead and cried.

That story is not unusual for us. It happens several times a year.

Fifteen years of this work has shown us patterns. Widows who cannot keep up with a home their spouse used to help maintain. Elderly parents whose adult children live too far away to help. Cancer patients recovering from treatment. Single parents whose landlord threatened eviction over apartment condition. Foster families taking in unexpected children.

These are people who need real professional cleaning help but cannot pay full rates. And they matter. So we help when we can.

The Honest Economics

I have to be honest with you. As much as we would love to say yes every time someone needs help, we cannot. Every job we take at a loss costs us real money. Our team still gets paid the same rate. Our supplies still cost the same. Our overhead still applies.

When we take a $2,000 job for $500 because that is what the family can afford, we absorb $1,500 in real cost. Multiply that by six or eight community cleanings per year and it adds up. We can only sustain a certain amount before it affects our ability to keep operating.

This is why word-of-mouth referrals matter so much. Every paying client you send us helps us stay financially healthy enough to keep taking on community cleanings. Every review helps someone find us who might otherwise struggle. Every share on social media potentially connects us with someone who genuinely needs our services.

If You Want to Directly Support This Work

Some clients have asked over the years if they can directly contribute toward our community cleanings. The answer is yes. Any amount helps us take on one more household who needs us.

Community Partner Programs

Beyond individual donations, we participate in structured community programs that provide organized support:

• Cleaning For A Reason — Free cleanings for women fighting cancer. Nominate someone through their platform and we accept the referrals.
• Alexandria Community Foundation — We accept referrals for families in crisis through their network.
• Local faith community partnerships — Several DMV churches and synagogues coordinate emergency cleaning for their members. We work with these networks.
• Domestic violence shelter partnerships — We provide clean-up services for families transitioning out of shelter housing.

If you are aware of someone in genuine need, or you are affiliated with a community organization coordinating such referrals, reach out to us directly.

A Final Word

You may have found this page because someone told you about us. Or because you have been a client for years and wanted to know how to help beyond the invoices you already pay. Either way, thank you for reading this far.

The dream I had fifteen years ago is bigger now because of you. Immigrant women on our team are supporting families, buying homes, sending kids to college. Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, and neighborhoods across the DMV have cleaner homes and businesses because of the trust you have placed in us. Community cleanings happen because paying clients like you make it possible.

Anything you can do to help us keep going matters. Follow us. Share us. Review us. Refer us. Buy a gift card. Contribute. Whatever fits your ability and your circumstances.

From our team to yours, thank you for being part of what makes this business possible.