Archive For The “Gifts” Category
The Center for Alexandria’s Children (CAC) needs clothes to give to children in crisis who cannot return home. Clothes must be new or nearly new, free from stains and tears etc. The CAC needs sizes infant through adult, especially sizes for teen-aged boys. – Drop off your box or bag of clothing to Tracy Nickelsburg [...]
Last year we invested in the start-up phase of the Alexandria City Playgroup Initiative (ACPI), and part of our gift was used to conduct a formative assessment of the existing playgroup efforts as well as develop ideas for collaboration across the City. We presented results at our spring event (here’s a recap) and in June, [...]
In case you missed our email, Facebook and Twitter posts… Our Goal: $7000 and 100 donors in 24 hours! $1500 is already pledged from Giving Circle friends plus $250 in matching funds from CrossFit Old Town. Please give! Give on May 2 (between 12:00 am and 11:59 pm!) to support playgroups in Alexandria. Whether you [...]
The Giving Circle of Alexandria is pleased to present the following gifts: $4,000 to New Hope Housing, Inc. to provide emergency childcare to families living in the Alexandria Community Shelter (ACS), a city-owned shelter. This childcare is short-term, emergency basis to bridge the period before City of Alexandria support is available, or for other short [...]
On June 1, we announced our priority gifts for 2011/2012…$20,000 to the Center for Alexandria’s Children for another year of playgroups and $20,000 for a Collaborative Playgroup Study conducted by GWU professor Dr. Travis Wright so playgroups can expand throughout Alexandria. This study will help quantify the benefits of playgroups and ensure that playgroups use [...]
Part of last year’s Priority Gift to our community was a contribution of up to $20,000 to evaluate the effectiveness of Playgroups in our City and explore possibilities for improving and expanding the playgroup model.Giving Circle Founding Member Karen Devlin, together with September Jones of the Alexandria/Arlington Smart Beginnings Program have set this initiative in [...]
