{"id":8863,"date":"2024-03-15T08:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=8863"},"modified":"2024-03-15T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:50:03","slug":"spring-for-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2024\/03\/15\/spring-for-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring for Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 2024, Assistance League of Northern Virginia is proud to be celebrating our 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of providing programs to support children in need.\u00a0\u00a0Throughout the year, we are offering a series of wish lists providing opportunities for the community to share in the celebration by purchasing items to benefit the children we serve.\u00a0\u00a0As we spring forward, our March wish list features sweatpants and leggings to help elementary students move into warmer weather with clothing that fits.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the affluence in Northern Virginia, many families can\u2019t afford new clothing as the seasons change.\u00a0\u00a0Spring has long been associated with new outfits to lift spirits and mark the transition of seasons, and your gift can give children in need the joy of new clothes and enhanced confidence and self-esteem.\u00a0\u00a0Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.<\/p>\n<p>Use this link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tiny.alnv.org\/wish\/leggins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/tiny.alnv.org\/wish\/leggins&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1710593169096000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3DFcF5iPdVMw2J8mYpNebu\">https:\/\/tiny.alnv.org\/wish\/leggins<\/a>\u00a0to make your donations or scan the QR code on the flyer.\u00a0\u00a0Please select Assistance League of Northern Virginia as the shipping address to ensure prompt delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Kovacs recently produced a brief video of our clothing program highlighting the variety of items provided to the eight Title 1 schools we serve. We have delivered more than 1000 clothing items this winter, including winter jackets, hats, gloves, sweat pants, long-sleeved shirts, underwear, and socks.\u00a0\u00a0We are very grateful for the video, which summarizes the importance of our clothing program, and to Bob for his expertise and dedication.\u00a0\u00a0Please view the video and then make your clothing donations:<\/p>\n<div class=\"fw-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"video\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cph4Tu3n68Y?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" ><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We extend our heartfelt thanks for the generosity of those who have made selections from previous wish lists, which focused on socks and underwear in January and books in February.\u00a0\u00a0We are very grateful for the amazing community support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2024, Assistance League of Northern Virginia is proud to be celebrating our 20th\u00a0anniversary of providing programs to support children in need.\u00a0\u00a0Throughout the year, we are offering a series of wish lists providing opportunities for the community to share in the celebration by purchasing items to benefit the children we serve.\u00a0\u00a0As we spring forward, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":8864,"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":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","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=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}