Please support Assistance League of Northern Virginia\u2019s Giving Tuesday campaign on November 28, 2023, to help children in need.\u00a0\u00a0This special day is designated to help people focus during the busy holiday season on providing resources for unmet needs in the community.\u00a0\u00a0Giving Tuesday is purposely scheduled to follow the post-Thanksgiving shopping events of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n
Assistance League\u2019s programs operate throughout the year to help meet the needs of underserved children by providing food, clothing, toiletries, books, reading support, comfort pillows, and baby items for newborns.\u00a0\u00a0Our Weekend Food for Kids program provides 1,720 bags of food per month to students in six elementary schools in Fairfax and Prince William Counties and a seventh school in the City of Alexandria receives grocery gift cards.\u00a0\u00a0We also provide gift cards over the summer when schools are closed and \u2018emergency\u2019 grocery gift cards during the school year to those eight schools.\u00a0\u00a0Our New Clothing for Kids program provides clothing throughout the school year, including shirts, sweatshirts, pants, underwear, socks, sneakers, winter coats, gloves scarves, and hats.\u00a0\u00a0These efforts are a small part of what our all-volunteer organization does to help children and families in need.<\/p>\n
We have continued to expand the assistance we provide, but to sustain those efforts and grow these programs we need your help.\u00a0\u00a0Our theme for Giving Tuesday this year is\u00a0Help Kids in Need So They Can Succeed<\/b>.\u00a0\u00a0Visit our website\u00a0www.alnv.org<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about what we do and see how a contribution on Giving Tuesday can help kids in need.\u00a0\u00a0Giving Tuesday donations can be made any time starting November 14, 2023, by visiting:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/givingtuesday.mightycause.com\/organization\/Assistance-League-Of-Northern-Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Please support Assistance League of Northern Virginia\u2019s Giving Tuesday campaign on November 28, 2023, to help children in need.\u00a0\u00a0This special day is designated to help people focus during the busy holiday season on providing resources for unmet needs in the community.\u00a0\u00a0Giving Tuesday is purposely scheduled to follow the post-Thanksgiving shopping events of Black Friday, Small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":8658,"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":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657","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\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8657\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}