{"id":3152,"date":"2017-10-01T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/?page_id=3152"},"modified":"2023-10-29T21:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T02:48:05","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/about-us-2\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>OUR HISTORY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Assistance League<sup>\u00ae\u00a0<\/sup>began in Southern California in the late 1890s.\u00a0 Headquartered in Burbank, California, Assistance League has grown to 120 chapters and\u00a0chapters-in-formation\u00a0nationwide with more than 23,000 members.\u00a0 Each year, Assistance League:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>Provides 2.6 million volunteer hours<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>Funds more than 750 philanthropic programs<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>Returns more than $36 million dollars to their communities<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>Touches the lives of more than 1.2 million children and seniors<\/p>\n<p>Assistance League is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to putting caring and commitment into action.\u00a0 When put into action, the results are astonishing.\u00a0 Nationwide, the member volunteers of Assistance League are dedicated to ongoing support and long-term presence in the communities they serve.<\/p>\n<p>Through a commitment of hands-on action, the innovative programs of Assistance League touch the lives of more than 1.2 million children, seniors, families, and others in need.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0120 chapters of Assistance League continue to conduct extensive community needs assessments, develop programs according to those needs, generate funding and staff each program. The extensive training, proven track record and joy of giving are expressed through extraordinary programs to meet specific needs of individual communities. Assistance League is proud to give its member volunteers the power to help ensure a positive future for their communities. Where these dollars were spent tells the true story of how Assistance League plays a vital role in the fight to provide help to those in greatest need.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Assistance League<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>of Georgetown Area was granted guild status in May 1998 and chapter status in July 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Members volunteered over 39,900 hours in 2022-2023 administering, funding, and staffing philanthropic programs and fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] OUR HISTORY [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Assistance League\u00ae\u00a0began in Southern California in the late 1890s.\u00a0 Headquartered in Burbank, California, Assistance League has grown to 120 chapters and\u00a0chapters-in-formation\u00a0nationwide with more than 23,000 members.\u00a0 Each year, Assistance League: Provides 2.6 million volunteer hours Funds more than 750 philanthropic programs Returns more than $36 million dollars to their communities Touches the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45755,"featured_media":0,"parent":708,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152\/revisions\/10428"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/georgetown-area\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}