COVID-19

Bend – Assistance League using different deliveries and pop-ups to provide help during the Covid-19 pandemic

Assistance League of Bend, a 21 Cares for Kids partner, is using different deliveries and pop-ups to provide help to needy kids and their families during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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 […]

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 […]

Coachella Valley – Desert volunteer group provides clothes to 300 valley school children in need

The lobby at the restaurant Vicky’s of Santa Fe in Indian Wells was busy Tuesday morning, only not with hungry customers but rather people hungry to help. Assistance League Coachella Valley, a group of charitable volunteers, had set up a mini-assembly line as they filled bags with shoes, socks, underwear and shirts to give to students […]

Montgomery County – Assistance League Celebrates in 2020!

Celebrating together during the Christmas season has always been a big hit for Assistance League of Montgomery County.  Typically we meet at a restaurant and have a brunch/luncheon with entertainment, and few special presentations.  This year the Member Activity Committee along with the Membership Committee decided we would meet at the Thrift Shop, and involve […]

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 […]