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Welcome back everyone! I hope your summer was great! I’m sorry to see it end, but fall brings its own promise of a fresh start and a new season, and that’s a fun feeling to have. I see that energy in my own family and I see it at the Giving Circle too. Please join [...]
Please join us the evening of Thursday, October 25 to hear Jane Hess Collins of Get Out and Give Back talk about the incredible impact women have in philanthropy. If you have never met Jane, you need to come! More details coming soon.
September 15, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm, Wright to Read’s Third Annual Story Festival at T.C. Williams High School. Author presentations, scavenger hunt, raffle, prizes, puppets….find out more! September 30 – Alexandria Family Fun Day and 5K: one of our members, Brooke Curran, has partnered with the Alexandria Rotary Club in organizing this [...]
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 [...]
Plan to attend our upcoming events: Fall Forum — Thursday, October 20 @ 6:30 pm at St. Paul’s Church, 228 South Pitt Street in Old Town. Circle Time — Thursday, November 03 @ 9:30 am at St. Elmo’s Cafe on Mount Vernon Avenue in Del Ray Also Our Renew-Your-Investment Drive is under way. Please renew your investment [...]
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 [...]
