#GivingTuesday Photo Challenge
Thank you for all of your UNselfies! What an amazing #GivingTuesday!
Congratulations to the Child and Family Network Centers, the winner of the 2014 #GivingTuesday Photo Challenge!
(Photo courtesy of #GivingTuesday)
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025 or #GivingTuesday, post a photo of a sign with your favorite nonprofit's name with the hashtag #GivingTuesday by clicking on Add Your Idea and then uploading a photo. After you post, make sure to give to that nonprofit as well! We're encouraging minimum donations of $20.14 for #GivingTuesday 2014, the biggest #GivingTuesday yet!
Here's how:
- Make a sign pledging your support of your favorite nonprofit serving Alexandria and #GivingTuesday. Need a template? Click here.
- Take a photo of yourself or another individual (or animal) holding the sign.
- Login to ACTion or make a new account-it's free and easy!
- Click on Add Your Idea and upload your photo.
- The nonprofits that are represented in at least three photos will be entered in a prize drawing for $100!
- Want to help promote #GivingTuesday through social media? Tweet your photo @GivingTues and @ACTionAlexVA with #unselfie. We'll be tweeting out your photos as well!
- Questions? Please contact: Kerrin Epstein at [email protected] or 703-739-7778.
And here's some inspiration from ACT's office mascot, Maggie Porter and her dad, John Porter, President and Chief Executive Officer of ACT for Alexandria (we recommend giving money instead of biscuits):
Ideas
"As was given to me, I want to pay it forward" I am a benefactor of the wonderful services and programs New Hope Housing has to offer! I give, because I want to make sure no one else has to experience the anxiety, fear, and sense of hopelessness that comes with being without a home. I give...
"Read to the children living at Carpenter's Shelter. #unselfie" Carpenter's Shelter's volunteers provide many valuable services, including investing into our families through Children's Hour!
Help us create a natural play area that encourage exploration, discovery, imagination, hands-on manipulation and the active engagement of children.
www.scanva.org
Reduce, Reuse, #Upcycle - Encourage your middle school home ec. department to do sewing crafts with recycled materials!
I support UpCycle! I also support their Fur-Vor project!
My mom started Arts on the Horizon, a theatre company with arts education programs and shows designed for children ages 0-6 when I was 4 years old. I want to help her continue to bring theatre to little kids all over VA, DC and MD!
Help us create a natural play area that encourage exploration, discovery, imagination, hands-on manipulation and the active engagement of children.
It is so fun to upcycle. It helps us to be creative and turn "trash" into something we never want to throw away.
www.scanva.org
Reduce, Reuse, #Upcycle - Encourage your middle school home ec. department to do sewing crafts with recycled materials!