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The Giving Circle of Alexandria


Giving Circle of Alexandria logoThe Giving Circle is a diverse group of women who are invested and engaged in their community. They believe that confronting the City’s high priority issues collectively and strategically is the best means to inspire social change. With an annual matching grant of $25,000, ACT has helped The Giving Circle increase their membership and impact around early childhood education. In 2009, ACT and The Giving Circle co-invested in a city-wide playgroup initiative to expand a collaborative playgroup model around the City.

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Alexandria Community Calendar

Lotsa Helping Hands

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ACT for Alexandria has partnered with Lotsa Helping Hands to provide a simple, free way to organize and encourage acts of support from friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, and volunteers. It’s all part of ACT’s role in bringing Alexandrians together to help people in need. With this new service, within minutes, you can create a private, personalized website – a virtual, caring community – that makes it easy to …
  • Post needed tasks such as meals, visits or rides
  • Schedule and coordinate help on an automatically updated group e-calendar
  • Keep members updated and involved with a photo gallery and message board
Everyone knows what to do and when to do it. Energy is spent helping, not scheduling.
 
Easily organize assistance for:
Health crisis                                End-of-life care             New parents
Family emergencies                  Caregiver fatigue         Nonprofit Organizations
Fundraising projects                  Playgroups                   Classrooms/Schools/Parents
 
To get started…click here .  To read more about this service, please click here. 
 
Here’s how it works:
 
1. Choose a coordinator. Typically a family member, close friend, or project chair, this is the person who registers with the service.
 
2. Register with Lotsa Helping Hands. By doing this, the coordinator creates the private website, which is ready for use immediately.
 
3. Add members. The coordinator adds the names and e-mail addresses of each person who is interested in helping (including other coordinators, if desired). Only these individuals can sign in to the Web site.  
 
4. List what’s needed. Using easy, built-in forms, the coordinator lists needs such as meals, rides, shopping, and other tasks that keep life running smoothly, or tasks needed for a project. Members are notified by e-mail when new needs are posted.
 
The system takes over from there. Members automatically receive a “welcome” e-mail about the site with sign-in information. They can see the group calendar and pitch in whenever they can, and be reminded of upcoming tasks.