Caring for Kids Grant Challenge
The RunningBrooke Fund of ACT for Alexandria and ACTion Alexandria are joining forces to launch the Caring for Kids Grant Challenge. We’re awarding $20,000 in grants to programs that help Alexandria’s at-risk kids with learning, health and well-being, and preparing for a better future.
If your nonprofit has a great program and meets the criteria, apply for a grant: Apply Now!
Are you nonprofit who's already applied? Follow these instructions to add your Idea to this Challenge page: Share Your Idea!
Below are grant applications from nonprofits serving the area - support and share these ideas with your friends!
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Alexandria Childhood Obesity Action Network (A-COAN) is proposing to strengthen schools and their surrounding communities by improving Alexandria City Schoolyards. Expanding on our Project Play initiatives to improve the quality and quantity of play available, A-COAN has recently formed a...
The Alexandria Police Youth Camp (APYC) is owned and operated by the officers of the City’s Police Department. Since 1946, the camp has given more than 20,000 children the opportunity to attend a summer program in a rural setting. The children, ages 9-15, are provided a rustic camping experience...
Casa Chirilagua began when three young women moved into the Chirilagua neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia, a primarily Latino immigrant community, with the goal of listening to and learning from their neighbors. Five years later, we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit with seven staff members and over...
Arcadia Farm Camp: It’s a place where kids learn where eggs come from -- and collect them from under chickens. Why bees dance from blossom to blossom, and how they make honey. It’s where kids understand the difference between soil and dirt, and learn about the microbial world necessary to yield...
The Concerned Citizens Network of Alexandria’s (CCNA) networking concept reaches out to other non-profit organizations to provide comprehensive academic and life skill services to middle school students at risk of dropping out of school. CCNA goals are to increase student achievement levels;...
The DreamDog Foundation is seeking funding for our new city-wide literacy program called ABS -- Alexandria Book Shelf with the goal of getting books into the hands, homes and hearts of children who don’t have...
Finding age-appropriate and stimulating after school programs for middle school students is a challenge for families. UpCycle Creative Reuse Center in Del Ray offers its...
Arts on the Horizon, the first theatre company in the United States specifically focused on creating theatre for children ages 0-6, has been offering free performances to children in Northern Virginia Head Start programs since May 2011, but we want to do more! This fall, our show, The...
This past winter, Alexandria Soccer Association provided after school soccer training to over 200 youth at John Adams and Mount Vernon Recreation Centers in Alexandria. The “Alexandria Soccer Winter After-School Program” began in late January and concluded during the last week of February. Over...
The Center for Alexandria's Children's idea to strengthen and expand our partnership with the City of Alexandria and other organizations to provide developmental playgroups for at-risk children 0-5 and their parents and caregivers is based on three simple facts: 1. ...
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We'd love to receive support for the Tutor/Mentor program of Wright to Read. We'll take up to 40 referrals of new students in the coming school year. Those students will be identified by their teachers as reading at least one year below grade level. We will recruit, screen,...
Jane Franklin Dance wishes to partner with Alexandria Housing Development Corporation to begin or to enhance after school programs for youth. Residents seek more health and fitness activities, social events, and more activities for resident children. This project would encompass after...
By Your Side Ministries (BYSM) program’s objective is to help youth between the ages of 11 & 19, primarily, to be properly equipped for their future via activities that promote a healthy lifestyle using a holistic approach to include life skills development, health...
Firefighters Coats for Kids (FFCFK) is a collaboration between local firefighters and non-profit Operation Warm (OW), whose mission is to provide NEW, American-made winter coats to disadvantaged children in communities all over North America. We hope to reach 500 children in...
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW) Dunbar Alexandria-Olympic Branch has been serving at-risk underserved youth in Alexandria since 1936 for a nominal membership fee. No child is turned away for inability to pay. We provide after-school programming between 2:30pm and 8pm, during...
CFNC proposes a Sponsor-a-Child initiative in which the donations and efforts help provide preschool and family services to an at-risk child in our newest classroom to be opened in September 2013 in the West End. It’s simple: children thrive when families succeed. Inspired and guided by this...
The Reading Connection (TRC) hopes to receive funding to allow 75 families living in housing crisis in Alexandria to participate in TRC’s effective and successful Book Club program for one year. TRC’ mission is to improve the lives of at-risk children and families by helping...
Family Legends of Alexandria is a fun and informative art class for families. Adults and children work together to choose a "legend" in their family, write their story and make it into a handmade storybook to take home. This grant will enable us to reach three new locations to target...
Concerned citizens in Northern Virginia, particularly professional retirees, created the Village Resource Foundation. We provide a wide range of services promoting the stability of families, with special focus on youth in Alexandria. We pursue our objectives by reinforcing the...
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