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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 [...]
A great big THANK YOU to those of you who were part of Spring2Action over the last few days! 937 people gave over $76,000 to Alexandria nonprofits (over $100,000 if you count all the matching grants) and 51 of you gave $4195 to the Giving Circle. The generosity of people in our City is just [...]
Our many, many thanks to all of our wonderful Giving Circle investors, friends, neighbors, local businesses and schools for helping Wright to Read achieve its goal of filling 1,200 backpacks with three age-appropriate books for summer reading, including one brand-new book for each child. Special appreciation goes to Christine Labrecque and Maura Powell who spearheaded the Book [...]
