Alexandria Raises More Than $1.3 Million in One Day for Non-Profits

PHOTO: Spring2ACTion raised more than $1.3 million Wednesday for nonprofits in the City. Photo courtesy of Spring2ACTion

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ALEXANDRIA, VA — Alexandria’s annual online giving day, Spring2ACTion, generated $1,337,493 for 153 Alexandria nonprofits on Wednesday, according to a news release from the group. The popular giving day continues to grow each year in record fashion with thousands of donors and nonprofits participating.

In 2015, Spring2ACTion raised $1.276 million dollars from 9,431 individual donors. This year, 8,316 individuals joined forces with local businesses to participate in the crowd-funding event. Hosted by ACT for Alexandria, Spring2ACTion is the only citywide giving day in the region designed to strengthen the impact of local nonprofits.

Participating nonprofits represent a wide variety of causes, including health and wellness, animal rescue, food and shelter, arts and music, schools and PTAs and early care and education. From providing scholarships to summer camp to building playgrounds and serving meals to low-income families, the money raised during Spring2ACTion will continue to have a tremendous impact on the community in the “Spring2ACTion is about more than raising critical dollars for local nonprofits,” says John Porter, president and CEO of ACT for Alexandria.

“It’s about bringing the entire community together to support nonprofits that give back to our city every day. We hope that by focusing our goals on engaging more individuals and businesses in giving, we’ll further strengthen the connections between nonprofits and the greater community.”

As part of this citywide giving day, nonprofits had the opportunity to benefit from the proceeds of sales contributed by businesses throughout Alexandria as well as from local restaurants including Holy Cow, Pork Barrel BBQ and Sweet Fire Donna’s. All donors who contributed also had the chance to stop by Sugar Shack for a free donut.

Top Prize Winners included:

Alexandria Soccer Association, Homeward Trails Animal Rescue, RunningBrooke, King Street Cats, Casa Chirilagua, Arts on the Horizon, UpCycle Creative Reuse Center, Alexandria Harmonizers and the T.C. Williams Stadium Initiative.

Prizes were also awarded for a competition dedicated to the arts called Spring4ART through which twenty-five members of the Alexandria Arts Forum had the opportunity to compete for additional prizes.

As online giving and peer-to-peer fundraising continues its upward trend in popularity, Spring2ACTion continues to expand, with 38 nonprofits taking part for the first time.

Thanks to the incredible generosity from donors, participating nonprofits raised an average of $8,742 to support their programs.

Spring2ACTion was sponsored by the Maury Lane Fund, The Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation, the Mason Hirst Foundation, Maria and Harry Hopper, Speck-Caudron Investment Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, Neuhaus-Speck Family Foundation Fund, Diann and David Frantz, Grant Thornton, Six Half Dozen Design Studio and Give Back Alexandria.

Community partners include the Alexandria Arts Forum, the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership, Alexandria Gazette Packet, AlexandriaNews.org, Alexandria Restaurant Partners, Alexandria Times, Causetown, the City of Alexandria, the Del Ray Business Association, DulceStudios, Extraordinary Alexandria, Holy Cow Burger, MOM’s Organic Market, The Old Town Boutique District, Pork Barrel BBQ, Sweet Fire Donna’s, Sugar Shack Donuts, The Zebra Press. Spring2ACTion was administered on the Razoo platform.