With the return to school just weeks away, the Bolivia Elementary School media center has a brand new selection of children’s literature thanks to the generosity of Assistance League of Greater Wilmington. Tillie Lehmer, Mary Jo Harris, Jan Jacobsen and Pam Moody organized a book drive to benefit a school in New Hanover and Brunswick […]
BURBANK, Calif., March 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — National Assistance League, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization with 120 chapters and 23,000 members nationally, announced today that its chapters collected or purchased more than 100,000 books which the organization donated to schools, libraries and other community organizations to support literacy among youth. Termed Legacy of Literacy, the program was initiated […]
Families with children gathered to celebrate the Legacy of Literacy Day on Saturday morning in the northeast Houston neighborhood of Denver Harbor. At the Head Start literacy event, which was open to the public, children played games, won prizes, completed arts and crafts, had their faces painted and chose books to take home after listening […]
Celebrate the Legacies of Volunteerism and Literacy. Many members of Assistance League of Diablo Valley are grandparents, so when one shared the following concern, a marvelous event emerged: Books for children cover almost every topic imaginable, so why isn’t there one about youngsters volunteering? Fellow children’s literature enthusiasts collectively created a story, actually a poem, […]
Assistance League of Riverside is conducting its seventh annual children’s book drive through Feb. 25. The books will be given to children clothed in the chapter’s Operation School Bell program. People may donate new or gently used books at the chapter’s Thrift Shop, 3707 Sunnyside Drive, Riverside. The shop is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday and 10 […]
Drawing on the success of reaching their national goal of collecting and donating 500,000 books in five years, Assistance League has decided to devote a special day of their own to help combat childhood literacy. On the fourth Saturday of February 2018, chapters across the country will stage their first “Legacy of Literacy” event in […]
