Community Needs

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Feb

Inland North County – Assistance League donates $20,000 for food to Interfaith Community Services

From left, Veronica Blea, Interfaith’s director of Supportive Services, Diana Chambers, Assistance League of Inland North County’s president and Melinda Jarrell, the League’s VP of Resource Development. The nonprofit Escondido-based Assistance League of Inland North County donated $20,000 to Interfaith Community Services Food Pantry to help area families in need of food during the COVID-19 […]

Feb

Northern Virginia – Assistance League Helps Meet Needs For Local Families

Assistance League of Northern Virginia is pleased to report that the chapter delivered 400 additional $20 grocery gift cards in January to students and their families at six local elementary schools that had been receiving its monthly distribution of weekend food bags. The nonprofit knows this assistance helps some of the most disadvantaged in the […]

Feb

Chaves County – Assistance League prepares for increase in school needs

With the pending reopening of schools on the hybrid model, Assistance League of Chaves County anticipates an increase in referrals from area schools that have children in need of new clothes appropriate for their classrooms. Operation School Bell has remained well stocked with new clothing, hygiene kits, shoe vouchers, socks, underwear and books for children […]

05

Feb

Inland North County – Assistance League Donates Laptops to Ramona Unified School District

Assistance League of Inland North County donated 18 Chromebook laptops to Ramona Unified School District in late 2020. Pictured: ALINC President-elect Carole Comeau, district nurse Jackie Stiles, director of pupil services Eileen Highley, Operation School Bell Chairman Judy Davis, ALINC President Diana Chambers and Philanthropic Vice President Marolyn Miglin.

13

Jan

San Jose – How to form a Partnership

We all know the cliché “thirty years of work to become an overnight success”!  This cliché does not only apply to actors achieving stardom, but to those in nonprofits who work hard and steadily to form partnerships with a business or corporation.  Thus is the case with the partnership that Jerri Kazmierzcak, a member of […]

08

Jan

St. Louis – Assistance League Outreach: Driven by Compassion, Powered by Action

A highly resourceful group of 27 Assistance League members annually helps more than 1,100 St. Louisans deal with everything from food insecurity to homelessness. And with COVID 19 case numbers spiking in the St. Louis area, the need for Outreach Assistance League’s Outreach Program has grown—with the case load tripling in recent weeks. “Our program […]