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Celebrating 10 years of community leadership!
Join ACT for Alexandria for a night of fun, friendship, and festivity to celebrate 10 years of community leadership. No speeches, no auctions, no asks...just fun! Tickets are $50 before May 12 and $65 at the door.
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Come to this community dance and enjoy music by the Mount Vernon Swing Band. Admission is $4. For more information, please call: 703-765-4573, TTY: 711
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Long Range Educational Facilities Plan Update:
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This 5k and 1k fun run benefits ALIVE! Please bring a non-perishable food item. Families and strollers welcome. $25/5k before Jan. 16; $35/race day and $15/1k before Jan. 16; $20/race day. Visit: www.prracing.racebx.com or 703-998-6460.
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Fall is gearing up and there are tons of fun events happening on the weekends! Here are some of the highlights for this weekend:
Saturday, 9/14
- The DiverseCity Alexandria Multicultural Fest will be held in Four Mile Run Park in The Plaza. Celebrate the diversity of your city with food, live music, and dance!
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The Alexandria Jaycees are holding their annual series of yard sales starting Saturday, September 14 and continuing on October 19.
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The Alexandria Jaycees are holding their annual series of yard sales starting Saturday, September 14. The yard sale will run from 7 am to 1:30pm in the parking lot of Anthony Lane Elementary School. Volunteers are needed to check in vendors, organize the sale, and run a food concession.
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Join 100+ of your neighbors at the 3rd What's Next Alexandria Community Dialogue! Hundreds of community
members have been collaborating to build Alexandria's Principles of Engagement since November. We'll be discussing the Principles and a new framework for implementation and we need your feedback and ideas.
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Join 100+ of your neighbors at the 3rd What's Next Alexandria Community Dialogue! Hundreds of community members have been collaborating to build Alexandria's Principles of Engagement since November.
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Alexandrians Respond to Boston Tragedy on Spring2ACTion – Alexandria’s Giving Day
24 hours of giving to bring thousands of dollars to support Alexandria charities and the Boston community
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Arlandria Businesses and Citizen Groups Offer Support for Four Mile Run Clean-up
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Happy Second Anniversary to You!
We're celebrating our second anniversary this month and it's
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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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Enjoy a nice evening away from the house and come be a part of Friday Knits at Fibre Space. This free monthly event lets knitters and crocheters enjoy each other's company, ask the staff questions and see what projects are going on while watching films. This month its Monsters, Inc.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Courtesy of Alexandria City Public Schools.
Congratulations to Alexandria's 5th graduating class of the Parent Leadership Training Institute.
The Parent Leadership Training Institute is a 20-week program that focuses on training caretakers to best advocate for their children and the children throughout the community.
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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.
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The final numbers are in! Once again, thank you Alexandria!
Spring2ACTion Results
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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.
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As you can imagine, I think about the state of civic engagement and philanthropy in our city a lot.
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The importance of participating in the political process can never be overstated.
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If you're attending ACT for Alexandri
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