Alexandria residents who get free meals from ALIVE!’s West End Food Hub will have to seek other accommodations.
Last week, ALIVE! announced that the food hub at 510 S. Van Dorn Street will be “closed until further notice” due to an ongoing HVAC replacement. Still, there are plenty of ways to get free food this month in Alexandria.
Volunteer Alexandria has set a goal of collecting 40,000 pounds of canned food in July.
The organization’s third Food4ALX collection drive will donate the canned items to Hunger Free Alexandria’s food pantries and ALIVE!.
A longtime former employee of the Campagna Center has been tapped to lead the nonprofit as its president and CEO.
Edith Hawkins, who was Campagna Center’s first-ever chief program officer from 2014 to 2022, will succeed outgoing CEO Tammy Mann.
After leaving the Alexandria Detention Center, Mahogany Jones wants to be a nurse aide.
On Tuesday, the 20-year-old mother of two joined her fellow inmates for the annual resource fair in the jail gymnasium. Jones is set to be released at the end of July for a felony shoplifting charge, and says she never wants to come back.
There’s nothing like a new pair of shoes. This afternoon, all James K. Polk Elementary School students in Alexandria’s West End received free sneakers.
That’s 770 pairs of shoes, all donated to the students by Pennsylvania-based nonprofit Operation Warm and Georgia-based builder Beazer Homes. The event was just one in a handful today across the country that the companies are offering to school systems.
Some Alexandria families are bracing for potential immigration enforcement following a wave of executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in his first days back in office.
While there have been no confirmed reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Alexandria, local advocacy groups say immigrant families are preparing for the worst.
If you’re an Alexandrian making less than $67,000, you can skip TurboTax this year and get help directly from the City of Alexandria.
Qualifying residents can receive support from Community Tax Aid, Inc., a non-profit based out of DC that helps to ensure taxpayers apply for all applicable credits and reductions, like the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
Alexandria nonprofits can breathe a sigh of relief after the White House today rescinded a controversial order by President Trump’s administration to withhold all federal grants and loans.
The Trump administration ordered a halt to all federal and grant programs on Monday (Jan. 27), and it was soon after temporarily blocked from going into effect until Monday, Feb. 3. The block was issued by U.S. District Court Judge Loren L. AliKhan and the White House rescinded the order on Wednesday (Jan. 29).
Cornerstone Craftsman, a local non-profit that provides local teens with instruction, tools and mentoring to work in skilled trades, is hosting a grand opening for a new facility on Eisenhower Avenue next month.
The new location is at 2111 Eisenhower Avenue. The grand opening is scheduled for noon on Feb. 28.
A nonprofit serving Arlandria’s Latino community is trying to raise some big bucks before the end of the year.
After a disappointing Spring2ACTion fundraiser earlier this year, Casa Chirilagua is trying to raise $120,000 to fund their programming to serve 400+ people, and also keep the lights on. The deadline for giving is Dec. 31.
Carpenter’s Shelter recently expanded operations with the opening of the renovated 64-bed Alexandria Community Shelter on Wednesday (Dec. 11).
Carpenter’s Shelter took over the former Department of Community and Human Services space at at 2355-B Mill Road a year ago. The made over space is operating as a winter shelter.
