Author Archives: Tricia

Thank You For Your Hard Work on the Book Drive!

By Tricia | April 12, 2010

Thank you! Thank you! The Giving Circle and Wright to Read produced nearly 800 book packs for the needy children of Alexandria.   Thanks so much to those who donated books or money to purchase books.  To reach our goal of 1,200 packs, we still need your help. We are looking for 450 new or [...]

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The Book Drive is in the Home Stretch! But we still need your help to meet our goal…

By Tricia | March 4, 2010

Thank you for all your donations and support for Basket for Books! We are still short of our of 1200 Book Packs.  There are THREE easy ways to help: 1) DONATE BOOKS. Here’s the list of books we need and there are several ways to help gather the books: Donate new and gift quality used [...]

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The Book Drive Continues

By Tricia | March 2, 2010

Only a couple more weeks left in our annual book drive with Wright to Read and we still have a lot of work to do!  The goal is 1200 summer reading packs for Alexandria children. There are several ways to help: GATHER BOOKS FOR THE BOOK DRIVE Donate new or used gift-quality books appropriate for [...]

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The Giving Circle and Wright to Read Book Drive is underway now…it’s not too late for you to be part of it.

By Tricia | February 23, 2010

Support the Giving Circle and Wright to Read Book Drive.  Three easy ways to participate this week! 1) Basket for Books is this SUNDAY, February 28 at Burgundy Farm Country Day School from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Join Giving Circle Members and their families for an afternoon of shooting hoops and other basketball games [...]

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Our annual book drive with Wright to Read starts today!

By Tricia | January 30, 2010

Give the gift of literacy by supporting the Giving Circle of Alexandria’s annual book drive with Wright to Read.  The book drive runs from February 1 through March 14.  The goal is to collect books for 1200 summer reading packs to be distributed to City of Alexandria students.  What can you do to help? GATHER [...]

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