{"id":3152,"date":"2016-02-07T22:23:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T05:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/?page_id=3152"},"modified":"2024-08-19T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:54:09","slug":"our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/about-us\/our-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Assistance League, founded in California, is the first nonprofit, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization founded in the West to recognize the potential of volunteers helping those less fortunate to a better, more meaningful life. \u00a0The first chapter began in Los Angeles in 1919. \u00a0As the area grew, more chapters were formed. \u00a0To support the growing number of chapters, National Assistance League was organized in 1936 and incorporated in 1949. From this modest beginning, Assistance League has grown to 120 chapters with over 22,000 members throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<h3>Highlights of the Pasadena chapter of Assistance League include:<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>\u00a0Founded in 1936 and chartered in 1941 as the 6th\u00a0chapter of\u00a0<strong>Assistance League<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>\u00a0Opened <strong>Craft Fair Gift Shop<\/strong> in 1955 and operated for nearly 70 years, to showcase hand-crafted items made by seniors<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>\u00a0Built the\u00a0<strong>California House <\/strong>building in 1965 for\u00a0program facilities, meeting rooms and volunteer offices<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>\u00a0Opened <strong>Treasure Fair Thrift Shop<\/strong> in 1977 to raise funds for Assistance League of Pasadena\u2019s philanthropic programs and to serve the community<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span>\u00a0Launched <strong>Operation School Bell<\/strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> program in 1990 to clothe disadvantaged school children in the Pasadena Unified School District<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span> Established the <strong>Care and Comfort<\/strong> program (formerly <strong>Assault Survivor Kits<\/strong><sup>\u00ae)<\/sup> in 1995 to provide clothing and personal care items to individuals in crisis<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span> Created the <strong>SNAP! <\/strong>program in 2017 to quickly address problems in our community<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span> Developed the <strong>School Supplies for Success<\/strong> program in 2018 to supplement <strong>Operation School Bell<\/strong><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ee3124\"><i class=\"fa fa-star \" ><\/i><\/span> Created the <strong>Educational Advancement<\/strong> program in 2024 to provide educational support to youth in the Pasadena area[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Assistance League, founded in California, is the first nonprofit, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization founded in the West to recognize the potential of volunteers helping those less fortunate to a better, more meaningful life. \u00a0The first chapter began in Los Angeles in 1919. \u00a0As the area grew, more chapters were formed. \u00a0To support the growing number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20178,"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\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6766,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3152\/revisions\/6766"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/pasadena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}