05
Mar
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. [...]
21
Feb
Montgomery County – Assistance presented 900 children’s books to Creighton Elementary School
Assistance League of Montgomery County purchased 900 children’s books from the thrift shop and presented them to Creighton Elementary School. Additionally, 60 donated books we received at our chapter Christmas party, and 253 additional books bought from the thrift shop were given to Greenleaf Elementary School; making a total of 1213 books donated to the [...]
Feb
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 [...]
22
Jan
Bend – Assistance League provides tutoring scholarships
Through its Operation School Bell® Program, Assistance League of Bend is pleased to present scholarships to nine deserving students for additional tutoring. Assistance League, a 21 Cares for Kids partner, is partnering with Bloom Tutors, a company that works with local substitute teachers who are in need of work due to COVID-19, to provide weekly tutoring […]
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 Shares Love of Reading & Fun with St. Louis Area Children!
Friday, October 30, Assistance League’s 16 volunteer members in the costumes of children’s book characters paraded before the center’s infants, toddlers and preschoolers after the children enjoyed videotaped book readings and a puppet show— also created by Assistance League. Each child then received two, age-appropriate books while meeting and posing for photos with puppets and […]
