Volunteers from Columbia Bank branches from all over Oregon came to Bend to help the Assistance League. They spent a few hours yesterday helping to package and mail these handmade thank you cards. The cards are going to be gifts for people who participate in the upcoming ‘Raise a Glass’ fundraiser. Meant as a thank you, the cards are blank so they can be reused for any occasion. The upcoming Raise a Glass event takes place in November and is the biggest source of funding for Operation School Bell. Operation School Bell finds clothing for kids going back to school.<\/p>\n
Ann Schmidt, from Assistance League of Bend told KTVZ News ”\u00a0It costs about $125 to provide new school clothes to a child, and we are targeting to clothe about 2,700 kids. So do the math. It’s a pretty significant investment. We’re able to do that based on the success of Raise a Glass.”<\/p>\n
Before the volunteers got to stuffing envelopes, they got a tour of the Assistance League to see some of the Assistance League’s other programs. The visitors from Columbia Bank were particularly impressed with Cinderella’s Closet, which is a large wardrobe of prom dresses and jewelry that anyone can borrow for school events. Assistance League of Bend is a proud 21 Cares for Kids partner. Click here<\/a> to see the volunteers in action on KTVZ News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Volunteers from Columbia Bank branches from all over Oregon came to Bend to help the Assistance League. They spent a few hours yesterday helping to package and mail these handmade thank you cards. The cards are going to be gifts for people who participate in the upcoming ‘Raise a Glass’ fundraiser. Meant as a thank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20438,"featured_media":11409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}