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Arlandria Businesses and Citizen Groups Offer Support for Four Mile Run Clean-up

Happy Second Anniversary to You!

We're celebrating our second anniversary this month and it's

Families came together on Sunday to try out the new STARS playground we helped build with KaBOOM!, So Kids Can, The Washinton Capitals and ARHA. 

In just 6 hours on September 13, a new playground will be built in Old Town.

More than 200 volunteers from Alexandria and surrounding communities will arrive at the site you see on the left and work together to build an amazing new playspace for Alexandria families and their children.

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.

The purpose of this group is to promote health and wellness, community, creativity, and fun through music. If you are looking to have a great time and meet great people this meetup is for you.

While recognizing major changes in demographic characteristics of the American family over the past several decades, the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is initiating an ongoing, system-wide approach to strengthening Virginia’s families.  This initiative focuses on reducing non-marital births, connecting and reconnecting fathers with their children, and encouraging the format

Donate $10 Target gift cards to The Child and Family Network Centers to help with children's school & emergency needs

When Jeremy, a bilingual 4-year old from Alexandria’s Arlandria neighborhood, enrolled at The Child and Family Network Centers (CFNC) he knew few, if any, letters of the alphabet; but by the end of the school year he knew them all and used them to write his name along with a dated plan for what he wanted to do each day.

Jane Hess Collins of Get Out and Give Back has started a new program.  She is going out and engaging in at least one community service project a week. After she completes her project, she posts about it on Facebook, Twitter and her own website. By doing this, she is giving the nonprofit publicity and she shows the great work they are doing in the community.

ACTion Alexandria invites you to participate in Spring2ACTion, an innovative online community-wide fundraising event designed to inspire unprecedented levels of charitable giving in our City. Every donation you make gives your favorite organization the chance to win even more money through matching donations and prizes.

As you can imagine, I think about the state of civic engagement and philanthropy in our city a lot.

If you're attending ACT for Alexandri