{"id":5976,"date":"2018-12-02T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T01:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2018-12-02T23:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T04:43:50","slug":"sponsor-an-acps-student-through-the-holiday-giving-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/sponsor-an-acps-student-through-the-holiday-giving-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsor an ACPS Student Through the Holiday Giving Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, ACPS sponsors a Holiday Giving Tree program for students and families who are struggling financially.\u00a0Since 2014, this program ensured that many students who would otherwise not receive gifts have a wonderful holiday season.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/304057423?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the past, individual staff sponsors from Central Office and some schools would be paired with a student and give new clothing, toys or other items on the student\u2019s wish list. This year we are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=11423\">inviting all ACPS staff and the broader community to participate<\/a> in the giving and spread a little holiday magic.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in spreading a little holiday cheer\u00a0\u2014 and we really hope you are!\u00a0\u2014 please <a href=\"https:\/\/acpsweb.wufoo.com\/forms\/r1nv7zi0151ydj7\/\">register online<\/a> and you will be matched with a student\/family. Sponsors must deliver gift items to ACPS Central Office at 1340 Braddock Place by Friday, December 14 in order to ensure delivery of the gifts to students and families before schools close for the holiday break on Friday, December 21. Sponsors and students remain anonymous to each other.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not in a position to sponsor a family, consider giving the gift of your time. You can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lay wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery and other locations with Wreaths Across America on December 15.<\/li>\n<li>Help the Alexandria Department of Community and Human Services with their holiday sharing gift distribution.<\/li>\n<li>Distribute meals through the Capital Area Food Bank distribution program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more and sign up for these or other volunteer opportunities online through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volunteeralexandria.org\/holiday-activities\">Volunteer Alexandria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions?\u00a0Contact ACPS Lead Social Worker\u00a0Arnecia Moody at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:arnecia.moody@acps.k12.va.us\">arnecia.moody@acps.k12.va.us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year this program ensures that students who would otherwise not receive gifts have a wonderful holiday season. Sign up to sponsor a student and help spread holiday cheer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 20:30:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6023,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/6023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/staff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}