Assistance League ACTION! Week

Northern Virginia – Assistance League ACTION!Week

Every year at the end of February, the 120 chapters of the Assistance League organization participate in ACTION!Week, an initiative to celebrate the birthday of founder Anne Banning by helping children to grow and know that others care about them. Each chapter devises its own plan to help children in need. For many years, our [...]

St. Louis – Assistance League Thinking Inside & Outside the Box

Assistance League of St. Louis Member volunteers have designed a unique Virtual Book Festival in a Box for two Urban League Head Start Programs and teachers. Inside the Box is a magical flash drive containing a video Puppet Show written and performed by the volunteers, plus 14 story time vignettes, and suggestions for classroom activities. [...]

Northern Virginia – Quilters Unlimited of McLean Donates Colorful Quilts to Assistance League

Assistance League Will Combine Quilts With Books for Local Children! Assistance League of Northern Virginia is very grateful to the Quilters Unlimited of McLean, Virginia for their recent donation of 25 wonderful quilts made by their members! Assistance League packaged the vibrant, colorful, and simply happy quilts with books suitable for very young children. The [...]

Greater Wilmington – Assistance League awarded the 2020 AARP NC Coastal Inspiration Award

Assistance League of Greater Wilmington was awarded the 2020 AARP NC Coastal Inspiration Award for Intergenerational Education Trailblazer.  The AARP Inspiration Awards recognize people and organizations that have been working hard across the North Carolina Coastal Region to build better lives and communities.  The awardees are selected after a public nomination process and include Individual [...]

Diablo Valley – Assistance League ACTION! Week Commemorates Anne Banning, Cofounder

"Sunshine comes in numerous forms" As Action Week for National Assistance League arrives on February 23, the name Anne Banning reappears at the forefront. She was known as the child of Los Angeles’s “power couple.” Rather than amass power, Ann Banning sought to empower those in the community who were vulnerable, initially victims of the [...]

Georgetown – Reading and More on Google Meet – Virtual Story Hours 

For almost 20 years, elementary school students in Jarrell have been reading to Assistance League of Georgetown Area volunteers during a special pull-out program called Reading and More.  Volunteers who have been trained with strategies to use for word identification and comprehension meet one-on-one with students during the school day to help them improve their [...]