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Want a Prize? How Buying a Face Mask Helps Alexandria Restaurants

How can you win? Just purchase a Mission Mask and you could earn a restaurant gift card. It's a daily giveaway!

The wide selection of locally masks have a major charitable component giving back to local restaurants and the ALIVE! food pantry. (Photo: Emily Klassen)

ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Zebra Press is thrilled to announce its new partnership with the local not-for-profit KH Giving. What does this partnership mean for Alexandrians? Here’s the deal.

Alexandria resident Mary K. Leonard, the founder and CEO of KH Giving, has launched Mission Masks. While encouraging residents to wear a mask, buying one from KH Giving helps give back to the community directly in two ways:

  • With every purchase, there will be a 15% donation to the Zebra Restaurant Relief Fund, which goes towards purchasing gift cards at Alexandria restaurants for raffle giveaways four to five times a week.
  • Additional donations will be funneled to ALIVE!, Alexandria’s main portal providing essential support including shelter, food and monetary support for Alexandria families in crisis. Cash donations as well as products such as face masks and antibacterial cleaners will be donated to ALIVE! to give to people in need.

“We thought Zebra was a perfect fit for this project. We are about the good news and giving back to local restaurants with real cash purchases sounds like a major win to us, while also directing meaningful donations to ALIVE! which helps so many Alexandrians in need,” said Mary Wadland, Publisher and founder of The Zebra Press, a multi-media company based in Alexandria, Virginia.

Buy a mask and maybe win a gift card to an area local restaurant like Mason Social. (Photo: Emily Klassen)

And there are prizes available!

KH Giving has had success with charitable giving in the recent past. Besides offering financial assistance, the company contributed $7,000 worth of masks and antibacterial cleaners (available for purchase and donation on the KH Giving website)  to United Community‘s food pantry in a recent partnership campaign with Alexandria Living Magazine. This effort played a large part in controlling the spread of coronavirus in the city’s highest-risk population.

Boosted by the impact her company made, Leonard sought to continue the work through Mission Masks.

“If everyone in the country was told you could possibly help to stop people from getting cancer by wearing shoes made of watermelon rinds,” Leonard told The Zebra, “I’m pretty sure everyone I know would be wearing watermelon shoes.”

“How could we pass up a chance to sponsor a project like this where local restaurants would benefit so significantly?” said Zebra Publisher Mary Wadland. (Photo: Emily Klassen)

How You Can Win

KH Giving’s partnership with The Zebra lasts through Labor Day.

How can you win? Just purchase a Mission Mask and you could earn a restaurant gift card. It’s a daily giveaway!

This is a fun way to keep people safe too. There are new “STAR WARS” masks, Washington Nationals masks, and many more designs of officially licensed fabrics HERE.

In addition, KH Giving is producing custom masks for corporations, museums, etc with a 15% donation of the proceeds to the charity of the company’s choice.

Click HERE to purchase a child mask and HERE to purchase an adult mask. To have a chance to win a gift card, you must purchase a Mission Mask. Enter the code Zebra Giving at checkout to receive free shipping and a chance to win a gift card then follow KH Giving on Facebook or Instagram to complete your contest registry. FB:@KatherineHelenaGiving / Insta:@kh_giving

A portion of the proceeds will help Alexandria restaurants get back on their feet. Everybody wins! A grand prize will be awarded at summer’s end.

“Anything I can do to possibly help my fellow Alexandrians is the path I’m going to take,” Leonard said.

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Kevin Dauray

Kevin is Publisher's Assistant with The Zebra Press. He has been working for Alexandria's "Good News" newspaper since 2019. A graduate of George Mason University, he earned a bachelor's in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. He also studied at the Columbia School of Broadcasting and holds a master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marymount University. He is an alumnus of T.C. Williams High School. Go Titans!

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