My ReACTion: Responding to COVID’s Impact on Students of Color
By Heather Peeler It’s back-to-school season. Summer is ending and students from pre-K to college are returning to school. It's a time for fresh...
Read moreMajor ImpACT: Alexandria’s Youth Support Network
by Caitlin Brown, Youth Support Network Manager The past year has been rife with heartbreaking stories of the widespread, devastating impacts of...
Read moreLeading ACTor: Frank and Betty Wright Foundation
In the fall of 2020, the Frank and Betty Wright Foundation and ACT for Alexandria (ACT) partnered together to assemble a network of youth program p...
Read moreMajor Impact: Alexandria’s Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot
by Rabaaeladawia Hassan, City of Alexandria Resident As a single mother of three our budget is always tight. Keeping up with bills, groceries an...
Read moreLeading ACTor: Reingold
As ACT for Alexandria has worked to improve the lives of all Alexandrians, we have been fortunate that generous and community-minded businesses hav...
Read moreMy ReACTion: Moving Forward Together
by Heather Peeler If you’re like me, you’ve often wondered what we can do to successfully address poverty in our community. We have so many great ...
Read moreLeading ACTor: Washington Street United Methodist Church
ACT for Alexandria envisions a community where all residents can achieve their full potential and where the color of one’s skin, ethnicity, or citi...
Read moreMy ReACTion: A Guaranteed Basic Income for Alexandria
Is the American dream out of reach? At ACT’s recent IMPACT Racial Equity Forum, our keynote speaker, Nisha Patel a national expert on mobility fro...
Read moreMajor ImpACT: OAR
OAR is one of the first organizations to receive a racial equity capacity building grant from ACT. OAR seeks to promote equity in the legal system...
Read moreMajor ImpACT
The COVID-19 Outreach & Engagement Mini Grants Thanks to the Alexandria Resilience Fund, Alexandria nonprofits are creatively helping Al...
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