{"id":6758,"date":"2021-10-01T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T21:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T21:52:05","slug":"grocery-gift-cards-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2021\/10\/01\/grocery-gift-cards-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Grocery Gift Cards for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Assistance League of Northern Virginia again delivered another 400<b>\u00a0<\/b>grocery gift cards in September to the six elementary schools that had received our Weekend Food for Kids food bags before the pandemic.\u00a0 In\u00a0April 2020, we pivoted to delivering the grocery gift cards because covid-19 restrictions precluded providing the food bags. \u00a0Since then, we have provided 7,430 cards, with a value of nearly $126,000.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"yiv2933028028MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv2933028028MsoNormal\">Assistance League members are proud that our chapter has been able not only to provide relief to struggling families at a time when needs have grown substantially while income has declined, but that we have found new recipients for our services and also pursued new fund-raising opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0 Providing this level of support, however, has strained our budget and our chapter is seeking new supporters and encouraging long-time contributors to help us now so we can continue helping those most in need in our community.\u00a0 If\u00a0 you value our philanthropic efforts, please consider making a donation.\u00a0 \u00a0Use the \u2018Donate\u201d button on this website, or send a check to:\u00a0 Assistance League of Northern Virginia, P.O. Box 209, Herndon, Va., 20172. \u00a0\u00a0You can be sure that your generosity will help students and families throughout our community.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6760\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/10\/20210921-Lynbrook-gift-card-woman-and-child.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistance League of Northern Virginia again delivered another 400\u00a0grocery gift cards in September to the six elementary schools that had received our Weekend Food for Kids food bags before the pandemic.\u00a0 In\u00a0April 2020, we pivoted to delivering the grocery gift cards because covid-19 restrictions precluded providing the food bags. \u00a0Since then, we have provided 7,430 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30358,"featured_media":6761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6762,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions\/6762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}