Early Giving Starts April 12 - Are you Ready?
Here's a rundown of important activities and dates for you to know!

GiveGab is providing office hours for nonprofits through April 11. These sessions are being offered in 20-minute increments. Need help with your campaign? Sign up today!

Looking for yard signs, t-shirts and Spring2ACTion swag? Stop by the ACT offices (201 N. Union Street, Suite 110) for Materials Pick Up on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10am-4pm.

Planning to host an event on April 26 or leading up to the big day? Enter your event on our Spring2ACTion calendar - this site will be shared with donors, media and others! 

Be sure to check out the ad promotions in the local newspapers - Alexandria Gazette Packet and Alexandria Times, past newsletters and graphics and downloadables in the Nonprofit Toolkit.

Upcoming Spring2ACTion Dates: 
  • March 29 - April 11: GiveGab Office Hours
  • April 4 - 20 (Tuesdays and Thursdays): Materials Pick Up at ACT Office between 10am-4pm
  • April 7: Deadline to enter the Free Agent Fundaiser $500 Challenge (see below for details)
  • April 12 - 25: Early Giving (donations can be made during this time and count towards Spring2ACTion totals)
  • April 26: Spring2ACTion Day
Prize Details
Thanks to our incredibly generous sponsors, we are able to award more than $20,000 in prizes!

Leaderboard Prizes (King Street Wireless & Madigan | Schuler) - all awarded to organizations with the most donors, broken down by organization budget size
  • Small (under $100K)
  • Medium ($100K - $500K)
  • Large ($500K+)
  • Free Agent Fundraiser

Early Giving (Community Sponsors) - $500 - most dollars and most donors between April 12 - 25 and midnight - 8am on April 26

Power Hours (Seward Group) - $500 - most dollars and most donors between the following hours:
  • 11am - noon
  • 3pm - 4pm
  • 7pm - 8pm
  • 10pm - 11pm

ACTion Hero (BASH & Washington Gas) - $100 - randomly drawn throughout April 26

Free Agent Fundraiser Challenge (Community Sponsors) - $500 (see below)

Donor Prize Goals (Community Sponsors) - Prizes will be awarded to randomly drawn organizations based on operating budgets (Small - under $100K, Medium - $100K-$500K, Large - $500K+) that meet the following thresholds on April 26:
• 25 donors by 10am - $250 prize
• 50 donors by 10pm - $500 prize

Rules:
Only online donations made on the GiveGab platform during Spring2ACTion on April 26, 2023 and during early giving (April 12-25) will be considered for prizes. All prizes winners are subject to verification.

Organizations are only eligible to win one leaderboard prize, one early giving prize, one power hour prize, and one randomly drawn prize. If your organization qualified for more than one leaderboard prize, ACT for Alexandria will refer to your highest-ranking placement for final winner standings. Tie-breakers: if there is a tie for any time period for total number of unique donors, the prize will go to the organization with the highest average donation during that time period.

A unique donor is defined by their email address.

Past Winners:
Some have inquired about how many donors and dollars were raised in 2022 to prepare their prize strategy.
  • Early Giving Donors - 111, Early Giving Dollars - $25,565
  • Power Hours ranged from 36 - 165 donors and $7,068 - $11,760 dollars depending on the hour.
Anything can happen!
Free Agent Fundraiser $500 Challenge
We are hosting our 2nd Spring2ACTion Prize Challenge to encourage nonprofits to engage Free Agent Fundraisers (FAFs) in their campaigns. In our Spring2ACTion 201 session, we highlighted the impact of FAFs and the role they play in securing more dollars and donors for your organization. In 2022, 28% of participating nonprofits had at least one FAF, we want to increase that to 40%! Organizations with FAFs raise 2x more than those who don't have them (on average).

Between now and April 7, your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to recruit at least one person/group to participate as a FAF (of course you can recruit more!) Pages will appear on the Fundraisers page when they are created, but the FAF page must be complete with text by April 7 to be eligible for the $500 drawing. The winner will be announced in our April 11 email. You could win $500 and your FAF will participate on a leaderboard dedicated to FAFs, with additional prizes based on the number of donors who give.
Spring2ACTion Sponsors
ACT Annual Partners
Questions about Spring2ACTion? Contact Brandi Yee at brandi.yee@actforalexandria.org