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2023-24 Events for Mason Alumni in RVA

Be sure to check back for more details, updates, and more events, but here are the events we have on the calendar so far! TBD locations for MasonRVA events will be determined based on your feedback. Look for a survey to be posted soon.

DateTimeWhereEvent
Tue, Dec 5, 20236:30 – 8:30pmTBDMasonMBB @ 7 UTenn Watch Party – The men are looking good so far this season with Final Four guard Tony Skinn as a first year coach. The team plays hard and they can score. Not sure we are ready for a top team 10 yet, but it will be fun Livin’ on a Prayer again!
Wed, Dec 20, 20235:00 – 6:30pmTBDHappy Hour – Festivus Edition. Bring a gift (under $5) for a White Elephant Gift Exchange.
(2nd Wed moved one week due to conflicts on 12/13)
Tue, Jan 9, 20244:00 – 11pmCar/Van Pool from RVAMasonMBB vs VCU Road Trip – If you live in Richmond, there is a good chance your significant other may be a VCU alum. All are welcome to ride with us so witness the beat down of VCU in Fairfax.
Wed, Jan 10, 20245:00 – 6:30pmTBD2nd Wednesday Happy Hour
Sat Jan 13, 202412:00 – 3:00pmScotts Addition, RichmondMasonRVA Lunch & Brewery Tour – All Mason Alumni and their family & friends welcome.
Sat Jan 13, 20244:00 – 5:30pmTBDMasonMBB @ University of Richmond Pregame
Sat Jan 13, 20246:00 – 8:00pmUniversity of Richmond, Robbins CenterMasonMBB @ University of Richmond
Jan 19 – 28, 2024VariousGeorge Mason University – FairfaxHomecoming Week
Sat Jan 27, 202412:00 – 3:00pmEagle Bank Arena, FairfaxMasonRVA Tailgate
Mason Alumni & Students from the Richmond Metro are welcome to join us for free food & beverages.
Sat Jan 27, 20244:00 – 6:00pmEagle Bank Arena, FairfaxHomecoming Game (vs URI)
Wed, Jan 30, 20245:30 – 7:30pmTBD, RichmondMason Lobbies Reception & Mason Nation Tour Richmond – Credit Union House of Virginia
Thu, Jan 31, 2024TBDVirginia State Capitol, RichmondMason Lobbies Day
Thu, Feb 15, 20245:00 – 6:30pmTBD2nd Wednesday (on Thursday) Happy Hour – The 2nd Wednesday is on Valentine’s Day, so we will meet on Thursday.
March 6, 2024Mason Nation Tour Henrico – More Info Coming Soon!
Wed, Mar 13, 20245:00 – 6:30pmTBD2nd Wednesday (on Thursday) Happy Hour – The 2nd Wednesday is on Valentine’s Day, so we will meet on Thursday.
Mar 20, 20243:30 – 12:00amCar/Van Pool from RVAMason Night with the Washington Capitals – Buy your tickets soon, they sellout fast! Car or van will depend on how many ppl signup.
Late Jul / Early Aug 2024TBDTBD, RichmondStudent Sendoff – My favorite event every year. Meet the future Mason alumni and their parents from Richmond who will never return because they will get jobs in the DMV.
Sep 20245:00 – 8:00pmRichmond StadiumAlumni Charity Challenge
11th Annual Alumni Charity Challenge

Beat VCU! Bring cans or donate online ($1 = 4.8lbs) and the Central Virginia Food Bank Wins!

Alumni Charity Challenge – Wednesday, September 13 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. @ Richmond Kickers City Stadium.

Help the Central Virginia community this year by bringing non-perishable donations to City Stadium from 5:00-8:00pm or donate online until 11:59pm, Sep 13, 2023, and help the Mason Alumni Network in Richmond BEAT VCU again! We challenge our alumni friends in Fairfax and beyond to help out!

BEAT VCU – DONATE TODAY!
11th Annual Alumni Charity Challenge to support FeedMore!
11th Annual Alumni Charity Challenge to support FeedMore! Copyright: James H Loving 2017

And while your in the giving mood, take a few minutes to visit Give Mason page and make your annual donation of $25 or more (great habit to get into like changing your batteries in your fire detectors when we change our clocks an hour to spring forward or fall back).

Looking forward to seeing you on September 13th and with your help, lets BEAT VCU! (and the Hokies, Wahoos, Dukes, Tribe, Spiders, etc.)

HISTORY OF THE ALUMNI CHARITY CHALLENGE

The Alumni Charity Challenge was established in 2013 by the VCU Alumni Chapter with Mason Alumni Network in Richmond (#MasonRVA) one of only seven alumni chapters in attendance on a cool rainy day. Over the last 10 years, the challenge has grown to include over 40 alumni chapters and collecting more than 797,000 pounds of canned goods. Feed More collects, prepares and distributes food to neighbors in need across 29 counties and five cities in Central Virginia. This year 34 schools will be represented and we have the goal to collectively raise 150,000 pounds of food (75 tons).

Despite the rain in 2013, Mason Alumni embarrassed VCU alumni and then did it again in 2014 on their own turf in Richmond (RVA) by donating nearly twice as much food as all other local alumni chapters combined, In 2015, 2016 & 2017 Mason Alumni finished 2nd or 3rd behind VCU and/or Virginia Tech alumni. In 2018 with the addition of online giving and out-of-state schools, the big boys from the Big 10 came to play and took the top spots, but Mason reclaimed the top bragging rights for Virginia schools. This year is the first year since the pandemic MasonRVA has participated in the Challenge since the pandemic. We know we are #1 in Virginia so let’s do it again this year and see if we can beat the “big boys” like we did in 2006!

With Patriot Pride,

Robbie

FREE T-SHIRT! BEAT VCU! FEED MORE!

$1 = 4.8 lbs of food to FeedMore!

#MASONNATION!  CLICK HERE to donate $10 or more online to FeedMore (Central Virginia Food Bank) and help #MasonRVA alumni beat VCU alumni at home (and 40 other alumni associations) for the 7th annual Alumni Charity Challenge.

Forward your FeedMore donation receipt to freetshirt@masonrva.com and get a FREE MasonRVA t-shirt.

Donations for the challenge will be accepted through September 18, 2019 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

MasonRVA’s goal is to raise 12,000 pounds of food ($2,500) this year. All donations made TODAY (Sep 18) will be matched up to $500 by me!

And if you happen to live or be in Richmond Virginia between 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sep 18 stop by and visit MasonRVA, the Patriot and fellow alumni @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (downtown location).  We will be accepting food donations, as well as, have a laptop onsite so you can donate online.

I will bring some MasonRVA t-shirts as well!

GO MASON!

Rob.

7th Annual Alumni Charity Challenge

Beat VCU! Bring cans or donate online ($1 = 4.8lbs) and the Central Virginia Food Bank Wins!

BEAT VCU – DONATE TODAY!

Alumni Charity Challenge – Wednesday, September 18 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (downtown Richmond location next to Feedmore).

This is 7th annual Alumni Charity Challenge and this year The Patriot is planning to attend from Fairfax so you have no excuse (bring the kids, Hardywood is family friendly and there will be food trucks)!

George Mason Patriot
The Patriot

Help the Richmond community this year by bringing non-perishable donations to Hardywood Brewing from 5:30-8:30pm or donate online until 11:59pm September 18. and help the Mason Alumni Network in Richmond BEAT VCU again! We challenge our alumni friends in Fairfax and beyond to help out!

And while your in the giving mood, take a few minutes to visit Give Mason page and make your annual donation of $25 or more (great habit to get into like changing your batteries in your fire detectors when we change our clocks an hour to spring forward or fall back).

Looking forward to seeing you on September 18th and with your help, lets BEAT VCU! (and the Hokies, Wahoos, Dukes, Tribe, Spiders, etc.)

UPDATE! The SEC is showing up this year, but Mason is currently in 5th Place overall (1st in state) as of noon Tuesday, Sep 17! 36 hours to go MASON NATION! Let’s show our PATRIOT PRIDE and show these other schools who is #1!

ACC Standings Noon Sep 17

HISTORY OF THE ALUMNI CHARITY CHALLENGE

Mason was one of seven of the original schools invited by VCU to participate in the 1st alumni charity challenge at Hardywood in 2013. It rained that year so attendance was small, but since then the Alumni Charity Challenge has collected over 94 tons of canned goods with the support of over 30+ colleges from in-state and out-of-state. Feed More collects, prepares and distributes food to neighbors in need across 29 counties and five cities in Central Virginia. This year 41 schools will be represented and we have the goal to collectively raise 150,000 pounds of food (75 tons).

Despite the rain in 2013, Mason alumni embarrassed VCU alumni and then did it again in 2014 on their own turf in Richmond (RVA) by donating nearly twice as much food as all other local alumni chapters combined, In 2015, 2016 & 2017 Mason Alumni finished 2nd or 3rd behind VCU and/or Virginia Tech alumni. Last year with the addition of online giving and out-of-state schools, the big boys from the Big 10 came to play and took the top spots, but Mason reclaimed the top bragging rights for Virginia schools. We know we are #1 in Virginia so let’s do it again this year and see if we can beat the “big boys” like we did in 2006!

With Patriot Pride,

Rob.

Results for the 2017 Alumni Charity Challenge are in!

The combined total of food raised by all Richmond area Alumni Associations at the 5th Annual Alumni Charity Challenge was 48,355 pounds!
Congratulations to the in-state winner VCU raising 12,454 pounds of canned goods, out-of-state winner Michigan raising 4,886 pounds of canned goods, and small school winner William & Mary raising 3,185 pounds of canned goods.
Rounding out the top two in-state schools are George Mason at 4,013 pounds and Virginia Tech at 3,445 pounds. Rounding out the top two out-of-state schools are Penn State at 4,860 pounds and Wisconsin at 1,565 pounds.
83% of the food total overall was by online donations $8160 = 40,080 lbs.  An additional 8275 lbs of food was collected at the event.
#MasonNation, #MasonAlumni, and #MasonRVA finish 2nd in state and 4th overall!  MasonRVA thanks all Mason Alumni that donated online and came out to the event.

FREE T-SHIRT! $1 = 4.8 lbs of food to FeedMore!

#MASONNATION!  CLICK HERE to donate $10 or more online to FeedMore (Central Virginia Food Bank) and help #MasonRVA alumni beat VCU alumni at home (and 27 other alumni associations) for the 5th annual Alumni Charity Challenge.

Forward your FeedMore donation receipt to freetshirt@masonrva.com and get a FREE MasonRVA t-shirt.

Donations for the challenge will be accepted through September 20, 2017 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

MasonRVA’s goal is to raise 5000 pounds of food ($1042) and all donations will be matched up to $500.

And if you happen to live or be in Richmond Virginia between 5:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20 stop by and visit MasonRVA and fellow alumni @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery.  We will be accepting food donations, as well as, have a laptop onsite so you can donate online.

We will have MasonRVA t-shirts as well!

GO MASON!

Beat VCU! Bring cans or donate online and the Central Virginia Food Bank Wins!

Alumni Charity Challenge - Wednesday, September 20 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

Alumni Charity Challenge – Wednesday, September 20 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. @ Hardywood Park Craft Brewery

This is 5th annual Alumni Charity Challenge and VCU is doing more than a little smack talking (see t-shirt above).   Mason Alumni embarrassed VCU alumni in 2013 and 2014 on their own turf in Richmond (RVA) by donating nearly twice as much food as all other local alumni chapters combined.  This year VCU alumni want break the 2-2 tie with George Mason and claim the “BEST TEAM” trophy for the 3rd year in a row.  Obviously Mason alumn cannot let that happen.

Help Mason this year by bringing non-perishable donations to Hardywood Brewing from 5:30-8:30pm.  The good news is that for the first time if you cannot bring food to the event, you can donate online until 11:59pm September 20 and help Mason Alumni in Richmond BEAT VCU!  Even our alumni friends in NOVA and beyond can help out!

And while you in the giving mood, take a few minutes to visit Give Mason page and make your annual donation of $25 or more (great habit to get into like changing your batteries in your fire detectors when we change our clocks an hour to spring forward or fall back).

And you do not have to register to attend the event, but we would love to know you are coming!

Looking forward to seeing you on September 20th and with your help, lets BEAT VCU! (and the Hokies, Wahoos, Dukes, Tribe, etc.)

With Patriot Pride,

Rob.

 

Bring cans. Beat VCU – Wed, Sep 14 – 5pmh

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Once again, MasonRVA is participating in the Annual Alumni Charity Challenge and we need your help! We won this challenge the first 2 years and want to reclaim the trophy on Wednesday, Sept. 14. We will be collecting canned goods to benefit needy families in the Richmond area at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery from 5 – 8:30 p.m. All donations will benefit the Central Virginia Food Bank.

If you have any questions regarding the Alumni Charity Challenge, please contact Rob Walters.Like us on Facebook and check out MasonRVA.com for the latest information on events and activities.

With Patriot Pride,
Rob Walters ’88
MasonRVA Club Leader

Beat VCU, LSU, UNC,… Mason Alumni going for the 3-PETE!

acc-cupMason Alumni in RVA (w/ help from our fellow alumni in NOVA) won both the 1st and 2nd Alumni Charity Challenges hosted by VCU at Hardywood to benefit the Central Virginia Food Bank.

The first two years the challenge was limited to alumni chapters from Virginia schools including VCU, UVA, VaTech, JMU, VMI, etc. so the competition was good, but not good enough to beat MasonNation.  This year the event will be expanded to include alumni chapters from out-of-state schools and we expect participation from schools with strong local alumni chapters like LSU and UNC so a 3-PETE is not a given.  If you have been thinking about getting involved, now would be a good a time 🙂

The first planning meeting with members of the alumni chapters from all the other schools will be next week  (May 11-14, exact day, time, and place TBD).  If you would like to get involved and participate in the planning, or just want an excuse to meet a few other local Richmond alum for a drink after work, send an email rob@masonrva.com and we will let you know when and where the meeting will be next week (we will also post the event on the blog and you can just show up).

Go Mason!

 

The VCU Alumni Richmond Chapter will be hosting the 3rd  Annual Alumni Charity Challenge with fellow Richmond alumni chapters.  As you may know, we had a terrific turnout last year and had terrific weather as well. Last year, the Alumni Charity Challenge raised a total of 5,649 pounds of canned good for Central Virginia Food Bank in 3 hours with the participation from 13 different schools. This year we are excited to expand the event with out of state universities to compete against the State of Virginia Colleges and Universities.
What?
Charity networking event to raise canned goods which benefit the Central Virginia Food Bank .
When?

A weekday evening in August with a date to be determined

Cost:
FREE!!! Just bring your Alumni tent