Archive For The “Volunteering” Category
A Chance to Hang Out with Some Smart and Fun Women — and Do Good! Work Groups to Guide the Giving Circle’s Current Priority Gifts 1) Collaboration among Agencies — Work Group to Prepare a Road Map for the Future for Community Gifts: We are seeking members to serve on a work group to explore [...]
Tutoring Opportunities Join the Alexandria Tutoring Consortium and help local school kids improve their reading performance. Last year, of the 120 first-graders involved with the Book Buddies program, 78% passed (met or exceeded the benchmark) in their Phonics Awareness and Literacy Screening (PALS) test! Run or Walk for a Cause — Gifts in Kind [...]
Work Groups to Guide the Giving Circle’s Current Priority Gifts 1) Collaboration among Agencies — Work Group to Prepare a Road Map for the Future for Community Gifts: We are seeking members to serve on a work group to explore and facilitate collaboration among local agencies that provide services to struggling families. The focus of this work group [...]
Public Relations – The Giving Circle needs someone dedicated to external communications. This person would need to write press releases from content provided by members of the Board (approximately every 4-6 weeks), maintain a press list and spend some time developing those relationships so our press is published. There are not a lot of meetings [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
