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Prospective Member Coffee January 15, 2020

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on December 11, 2019

Assistance League Diablo Valley is welcoming new members! If you are interested in spending quality time and meeting energetic and upbeat people while helping those who are vulnerable, please…

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Lafayette Chamber Promotes Giving Tuesday

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on December 4, 2019

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world on December 3, 2019 and EVERY DAY! Our…

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Share the Spirit – Thank You East Bay Times!

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on November 23, 2019

We are excited to announce that Assistance League Diablo Valley has received funding for our Common Threads Program: Clothes Shopping for Homeless Youth. Thanks to EastBayTimes and their readers…

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R.E.A.D. For Family Literacy!

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on October 29, 2019

Assistance League Diablo Valley celebrates National Family Literacy Day. To encourage reading, members in the R.E.A.D. program read to 1,200 second graders last year and donated books valued at $20,000…

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Partnering with Wells Fargo: “Together We’ll Go Far”

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on October 13, 2019

On October 3, a contingent of employee volunteers from Wells Fargo Bank’s Commercial Banking division, arrived at the Assistance League Community Resource Center in Walnut Creek. These volunteers knew firsthand…

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Charming Notes to Support Programs

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on January 21, 2019

Assistance League Thrift Shop at the Way Side Inn note cards are now for sale. Write that special thank you note, invitation, or just a ‘thinking of you’ on…

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Piled to the ‘Heights’

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on January 21, 2019

Wondering about this big pile of blue bags? This was a donation of 250 uniforms that the

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2018 Ada Edwards Laughlin Award

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on January 21, 2019

Congratulations to Mary Jo Brady, this year’s Ada Edwards Laughlin Award winner! This award is given to outstanding members who do their work out of the spotlight. Without members…

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Where’s Your Grandma Today?

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on September 27, 2018

This children’s book promotes literacy through an engaging story about the joy of volunteering. Copies are available for $9.95 each plus tax at the Thrift Shop at the Way Side Inn in Lafayette….

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Wells Fargo Manager Remembers Operation School Bell

Posted by the-anthonys@comcast.net on September 24, 2018

When Hugo, a manager with Wells Fargo volunteered to help prepare school uniforms for local children through Assistance League’s Operation School Bell program, things seemed strangely familiar. He soon remembered that…

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