{"id":4744,"date":"2018-04-03T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?page_id=4744"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T22:18:00","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_cta h2=&#8221;&#8221;]<strong>Assistance League of Northern Virginia is a chapter of Assistance League<\/strong>, a nonprofit, nonpolitical, nonsectarian national volunteer service organization founded in the early 1890&#8217;s, that promotes volunteerism through leadership training and education.<\/p>\n<p>Today over 22,000 Assistance League members in 120 chapters touch the lives of more than 1.7 million youth and adults every year, contributing more than 3.3 million service hours and returned $50 million to local communities.\u00a0 This volunteer-driven organization is bound by a strong central mission to help those in need achieve a better quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Assistance League of Northern Virginia was organized as a guild in 1999 and chartered\u00a0as the 113th chapter of Assistance\u00a0League in 2004.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Since 1999, our all-volunteer chapter has contributed approximately 224,000 service hours and has donated $1,053,000 worth of donations to the community through our philanthropic programs which help to feed, clothe and educate children. \u00a0During 2020-2021, Assistance League of Northern Virginia members touched the lives of approximately 8,000 children and together with community volunteers contributed in excess of 9,000 service hours.[\/vc_cta][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;4582&#8243; 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