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

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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Dorothy On The Road

Assistance League Diablo Valley philanthropic program Show on the Road preformed Dorothy Returns to Oz to residents at Bryon Park Assisted Living in Walnut Creek, Ca.

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

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

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’

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

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?

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

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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