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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
Alex’s Army continues to support REST Immunotherapy Trial
For the 3rd year in a row Alex’s Army was able to present Dr. Jeffery Dome with a check in the amount of $100,000.00 to support the REST Immunotherapy Trial at Children’s National Medical Center. We are so honored to be able to do our part to help fund innovative research for newer less toxic and more individualized treatments for children fighting cancer. We know that we can only do this because of the love, the support, and prayers from YOU – Alex’s Army.
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!
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!
10th Annual Walk-N-Roll Photos
10th Annual Walk-n-Roll Registration
Online Registration has closed for this event but walk-ups are welcome! We can’t wait to see all of our SUPERHERO friends Saturday!!!
Alex’s Army Childhood Cancer Foundation is SUPER excited to invite you and your family to our 10th Annual Alex’s Walk n Roll 5K & Fun Run this year as we honor ALL SUPER HEROES (Big & small)! Join us Saturday, November 10th at our NEW LOCATION Gravely Elementary School in Haymarket, VA! This is going to be one event you won’t want to miss! Our Fun Run course is a super hero themed interactive course with kid friendly obstacles and more! All Fun Run participants will receive a participant ribbon and a special surprise! Our 5K course is NEW this year!! The course will be chip-timed, it is fairly straight
and flat, the course is wheelchair and stroller friendly. Please do not bring bikes, scooters, or roller skates/blades, etc. 5K finisher Awards will be given in male/female categories as follows (Youth age 5-10, Youth age 11-17, Adult 18-30, Adult 31-50, Adult 50+, Best overall Male/Female, Wheelz Division Youth 5-18, Wheelz Division 19+, 1st Place Sponsor Team.
We hope you will join us for a FANTASTIC morning of SUPER HERO FUN!
Not able to attend? Make a 100% tax-deductible donation today. Donate
*** Walk Postponed ***
Attention 5K and Fun Run Participants. Due to the forecast inclement weather we are postponing tomorrow’s 5K and Fun Run event.
We have a tentative new event date of Saturday, November 10th at the same location so please save the date. As soon as this date is confirmed with VDot, we will update the site and send out communications
via social media and email to registered participants.
We appreciate your support of our foundation and look forward to seeing ALL our SUPER HERO friends in a few weeks!
– Alex’s Army CCF
Going Gold in Haymarket
In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, local friends might notice the special GOLD bows that have placed along the 80 light posts that line the street in the Town of Haymarket!
Thank you to our good friends at Team Mathias for inspiring us and in paving the way year after year through the gold bows placed in the Town of Leesburg. We are beyond honored to bring these gold ribbons to Haymarket!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to our Town of Haymarket for GOING GOLD to raise awareness this month for Childhood Cancers!
We LOVE our town and we especially LOVE the children and families whose lives are forever changed by hearing those words, “You’re child has cancer.” We hope and pray that these gold bows are a reminder to us all of the families fighting all around us, we hope these bows are a reminder to those families that they are incredibly loved and they are not alone in their fight. ??
In the U.S. approximately 46 children are diagnosed and 7 children pass away from childhood cancers every single day. Childhood Cancer continues to be the #1 cause of death by disease for the children in our country.
Awareness leads to funding which leads to research which will one day lead to cures!
Thank You Apple Federal Credit Union
September 5th we had the honor of meeting the wonderful team at Apple Federal Credit Union as one of the 2018-2019 Apple Community Impact Grant Program recipients.
When we learned earlier this year that we were nominated for the Apple Community Impact Grant Program, we were incredibly excited for the opportunity alone! Little did we know that the nomination would lead towards our Foundation being chosen and later granted $30,000 in funding towards furthering our mission to support the families we serve who are going through so much in the fight against childhood cancer.
We are so thankful for the sincere compassion, generosity, and excitement that we felt from the entire team at AFCU, the AFCU Golf Committee, and the AFCU Foundation. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you Apple Federal Credit Union for believing in the mission and vision of Alex’s Army and for your support of families fighting childhood cancers.