Archive For The “Gifts” Category
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 [...]
The Giving Circle of Alexandria is pleased to announce that we are now accepting and reviewing applications from Alexandria’s non-profit organizations for Developmental Gifts up to $5000. These grants are intended to support non-profits and initiatives that contribute to the success of Alexandria’s children. On behalf of the Giving Circle, I invite your organization to [...]
The Priority Gift Process is underway with new information about needs in our community
By Cathleen | January 31, 2010
In November, the Gift Committee sent Requests For Information (RFI) to numerous nonprofits in the City of Alexandria. The idea was to look for opportunities for future partnerships with local human service agencies and who better to ask than the people in the thick of it all? The RFIs asked nonprofits to tell us about [...]
On December 8, the Giving Circle Board approved the Developmental Gift Recommendation issued by the Gift Committee. $10,000 in developmental gifts will be awarded as follows: ALIVE Child Development Center – $5,000 for implementation of Creative Curriculum in its preschool and daycare center for low-income families. Alexandria Tutoring Consortium – $2,200 to continue its successful [...]
