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Awareness Month 2019, Events, Photo Gallery

Alex’s Army Bowl 2019

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September 7th, 2019, marked our 4th Annual Alex’s Army Bowl Games at Grizzly Sports Complex and this year proved to be another awesome year. Four honorary local families joined us this year to help participate in the coin toss before the game which is always special not only for the families but for the team captains and referees who get to hear a little bit about our friends’ fight and to help raise awareness that childhood cancer is not rare.

This day is always special because it brings cheerleaders and football players from various leagues together for a much greater cause. It helps to increase compassion and understanding amongst our youth for their peers who are enduring incredibly tough battles everyday.

We love seeing the gold ribbons along the Football fields at Grizzly each year and know how much seeing GOLD means to the kids and families fighting.

Thank you to those who stopped by our tent to learn a little bit more about our mission and why we do what we do.

Thank you to our friends at Amusement of Bouncers for donating the Quarterback Football Toss and for providing the super cool football themed moon bounce.

Thank you to American Pride Youth Football, Gainesville Grizzlies, and to all the teams for GOING GOLD with us to help raise awareness during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and in honor of families whose lives are forever changed by a childhood cancer diagnosis.

***Join us in the fight against childhood cancers by making a tax-deductible donation today***

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Awareness Month 2019, Other Events

September Events

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Alex’s Army has several upcoming events that we would love for you and your family to be a part of! Read about each upcoming event below:

September 7th – Alex’s Army Bowl Games @ Grizzly Sports Complex
10600 Determination Road, Nokesville, VA | 9 AM – 6 PM

Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation is honored to partner once again with the Gainesville Grizzlies and American Pride Youth Football Leagues for the 4th Annual Alex’s Army Bowl Games! The goal of this event is to help kickoff Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, to raise awareness for childhood cancers, and to honor local families who have fought or are fighting various forms of childhood cancers.

Football players from both leagues, referees, and coaches wear gold ribbons, local children from the childhood cancer community are invited to participate in the coin toss, be honored by the teams before the game, and are showered with gifts from Alex’s Army and both youth football leagues.

We will have a moon bounce and Alex’s Army table set up with merchandise sales, information on upcoming events and how you can join our mission, and more! This year we also will be selling raffle tickets for drawings throughout the day so if you’re at Grizzly for scrimmages – be sure to stop by our table and see us!

Let us know you’re coming on our FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/609532322783910/?active_tab=about

September 9th – Haymarket Town Council Meeting & Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Proclamation @ Town Hall
15000 Washington Street #100, Haymarket, VA | 7 PM

Attention Town of Haymarket Residents & Western Prince William County families – We invite you to join Alex’s Army and the Town of Haymarket as the Town of Haymarket continues to Go Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness and issues a special Proclamation for the Month of September! We encourage families to wear a Childhood Cancer Awareness shirt to this event. Alex’s Army will be handing out Gold Ribbons to all families who attend.

September 13th – Battlefield High School Childhood Cancer Awareness GOLD OUT football game vs. Potomac Falls
15000 Graduation Drive, Haymarket, VA | 7 PM

Join Alex’s Army at the Battlefield vs Potomac Falls Varsity Football Game for their first home game and GOLD OUT for Childhood Cancer Awareness! Alex’s Army is providing Gold Ribbons for Freshman, JV, and Varsity football players helmets to be worn at the game. We also will have a table on site so be sure to stop by and say hi!

September 20-22nd – CureFest Weekend Washington DC

Join Alex’s Army and over a hundred other Childhood Cancer foundations and advocacy groups for a weekend of awareness, togetherness, and love for families impacted by childhood cancers. This years’ event will feature a live performance by Daughtry Accoustic Trio Sunday, September 22nd! For more information visit www.curefestusa.org

Driving for a Cure, Photo Gallery

2019 Driving for a Cure

A huge thank you to everyone who helped make our 5th Annual Driving for a Cure another great success! While the weather may have been hot~hot~hot that didn’t deter our awesome golfers and volunteers from having a great day on the course!
Thank you to this year’s Tournament Sponsor (and awesome grilling team) Dulles Group – Thrivent Financial Martin Cox & David Stach.
Thank you to our friends at Chick-Fil-A Haymarket for providing breakfast and boxed lunches before and during play for our golfers!

A huge thank you to all of our Greens, Tee Box, and Beverage Cart sponsors for your generous support, to all of our donors who contributed items for our silent auction and raffle prize drawings, to our amazing volunteers, planning team, and to our rockstar Tournament Director Franz Ferstl!

We LOVE our golfers who year after year make this such a FUN and successful fundraiser event ~ Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

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Battle of the Bands, Photo Gallery

2019 Battle of the Bands Winners and Photos

Thank you to all of the amazing bands that participated

2019 Teen Winners: Stone Cold
2019 Adult Winners: Wandering Lies
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Battle of the Bands

Save the Date BOTB 2019: March 2nd, 2019

Don’t forget to SAVE THE DATE and follow the below event page so you don’t miss a thing!!!

Alex’s Army and Ned’s Irish Pub presents our 5th Annual Battle of the Bands fundraiser!

A ROCKIN’ list of talented local Bands come together and battle it out in a little friendly competition to make a difference in the fight against childhood cancer!

This year in the spirit of #kidshelpingkids we are adding a separate TEEN Band Battle!!!

Entrance is FREE but we have lots of great ways you can support this fundraiser event!

So come on out and support you’re favorite band, have a chance to play trivia during intermissions (for prizes of course!), purchase 2019 event merch, raffles, and more – all to support the fight against Childhood Cancers!

TEEN BATTLE OF THE BANDS
3 PM – 5 PM

BATTLE OF THE BANDS
5 PM – 10 PM

***Additional Details, Band Schedule, and exciting Announcements coming soon***

For pictures of past BOTB events, click here.

Let your friends know you’re coming. Facebook Event

Fundraising Events, Videos

Giving Tuesday 2018

On this Giving Tuesday ~ Be Love. Give Hope.

Thanks to an incredibly generous donor who wishes to remain anonymous, all donations made to Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation received now through this #GivingTuesday will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000!

We have the opportunity to raise $20,000 in one day to help support our mission and make a difference in the fight against childhood cancers.

Every dollar helps and every contribution will bring us one step closer to finding cures!

Will you make a 100% tax deductible donation and join us?

There are 3 easy ways to donate:

-Donate online here.

-Donate through the Alex’s Army Facebook Fundraiser being held by Alex’s parents and Alex’s Army Co-founders Derek & Jenni Green. Facebook Fundraiser.

-Mail a Check (checks should be made payable to Alex’s Army CCF and addressed to PO Box 212, Casanova, VA 20139). Please write “Giving Tuesday” in the memo line.

Thank you for your support…TOGETHER we are Alex’s Army!

Walk-N-Roll Toward Wellness

10th Annual Walk-N-Roll Results

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came out and joined us this past Saturday for our 10th Annual Alex’s Walk n Roll 5K and Fun Run event. While the wind was pretty powerful and winter’s chill was definitely in the air, we still felt it was a heart-warming kind of day overall and hope that you did too!

A special thank you to our Heart of Gold Sponsor F.H. Furr, your continued support truly has been humbling and we are so thankful for your dedication in the fight against childhood cancers. Special shout-out also to our FUN RUN hosts: Enrichment Matters and E3PT – thank you both for giving our littlest superheroes some super fun superhero themed obstacles to conquer as they went around the course!

While we met some wonderful new friends, we are also so thankful for the continued support from our Army who year after year show up time and again to help us fundraise and make a difference in the fight against childhood cancers.

This year we walked, we ran, we may have gotten a little blown over at times – but we did it all SUPERHERO style and with smiles on our faces and joy in our hearts. We are thankful for all of the awesome kids who submitted designs for this years’ event shirt. The ages of these young artists ranged from 9 years old to 18 – their talent was evident, congrats to the winning artist Hailey W. from Haymarket, VA!

Thank you to all our runners for your patience and understanding regarding the medal ceremony. The timing results are now available at www.commonwealthtiming.net (as well as are additional racer pics). For those with winning times, we will be reaching out to you via email to get your race finisher medal to you. Congrats to our winning teams: Team Super Girl, Team Alex’s Dawg Pound, and Team Fluffy Unicorns!

Below are photos from this years event. Thank you again to all of Alex’s Army for your support of our mission. It truly takes an ARMY to fight Childhood Cancers…together we are an ARMY of SUPERHEROES making a difference in the lives of children fighting cancer and their families!