Posted on:
04/05/2012 - 3:03pm
One City. One Day. One Opportunity.
What if we all gave one one day?
On Wednesday, May 2nd, our community will come together for 24 hours of unprecedented giving.
Spring2ACTion is one extraordinary day to support the organizations that make Alexandria amazing. ACT and ACTion Alexandria, in partnership with our sponsors, are offering up to $30,000 in cash and prizes to help increase fundraising efforts by participating organizations and individual fundraisers. Real-time tracking will be displayed on the leader board at www.Spring2ACTion.org on May 2.
Be Generous. Be Alexandria.
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Posted on:
03/02/2012 - 4:51pm
They're finally here! Below you'll find the final report on Project Play's city-wide playground assessment by Design Concepts.But first, a little background on how we got here.
The Project Play partners and taskforce have been working to learn more about how well the playgrounds in Alexandria address the play needs of Alexandria's toddlers and preschoolers. With funding from a Kaiser Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) grant, Project Play hired Design Concepts, a group of playground experts, to gain a better understanding of the
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Posted on:
02/29/2012 - 12:01pm
How would you make Alexandria a greener, more sustainable community?
Eco-City Alexandria, Alexandria Environmental Policy Commission, and ACTion Alexandria have teamed up to launch the Alexandria Green Ideas Challenge. We asked Alexandria citizens to share their ideas for creating a greener, more sustainable community.
All the ideas have been submitted and now it's time to vote for the winners!
Prizes
The best three citizen ideas will win a total of $500 in cash prizes and a chance at $2,000 in mini grants to turn their Green Idea into a reality.
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Posted on:
02/29/2012 - 10:09am
We know you've been waiting to see the Project Play Playground assessment results for a while, so have we. The good news is that the Project Play Playground Assessment results will be posted on Childhood Obesity Action Network's webpage later today. In the meantime, watch their video about play in Alexandria.
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Posted on:
02/07/2012 - 1:45pm
It's time to celebrate. One year ago today, we launched ACTion Alexandria as a way to build a community that would connect neighbors and organizations to share ideas, take action and make an positive impact on our city. With the support of ACT for Alexandria, the Knight Foundation, the City of Alexandria, the Bruhn-Morris Foundation, and you, we've been able to make this happen.
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Posted on:
02/01/2012 - 10:33am
The Alexandria Childhood Obesity Action Network, Alexandria/Arlington Smart Beginnings, and ACTion Alexandria teamed up to launch the Project Play Spruce Up Grants Competition to help residents improve local playgrounds and ensure that every child in Alexandria has a quality place to play.
Alexandria residents nominated 17 local playgrounds on the ACTion Alexandria website to receive a Project Play Spruce Up Grant to pay for new small equipment, equipment repairs and upgrades, seating and shade trees and other innovative ideas to improve Alexandria playspaces.
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Posted on:
01/09/2012 - 3:31pm
Your votes have all been counted, the judges scores have been tabulated, and we are ready to announce the winners of the Keep It 360 Video Contest!
Online scores counted for 1/3 of the total scores and were combined with the scores for Creativity and Relevancy assigned by the esteemed members of our judging panel:
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Posted on:
12/23/2011 - 11:46am
Design Concepts rated 89 of Alexandria's playgrounds early in the Summer of 2011. Indoor, Outdoor, Public and Private playspaces were assessed. Each playground was rated based on a number of determining factors:
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Posted on:
12/17/2011 - 1:00am
Thanks for voting in the Keep it 360 Video Contest!
Almost 500 votes have been cast in the popular vote portion of the contest. Thanks for particpating and helping make the contest a huge success!
Now it's all up to the judges who will consider your votes, topic relevancy and creativity of the entries as part of the judging process.
We'll post a contest update on December 20th.
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Posted on:
12/13/2011 - 3:22pm
A total of $800 in prizes is up for grabs in ACAP's Keep it 360 Video Contest on ACTion Alexandria.
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