Assistance League

Greater Placer – Get Kids Packing

Assistance League of Greater Placer members provide backpacks and school supplies to children grades Kindergarten through 12th grade in pre-designated Placer County locations, working with Kids First in Roseville and Auburn and North Tahoe Family Resource Center in Tahoe. “When the children arrive to choose the backpacks they desire and are given a box of […]

Huntington Beach – Assistance League Offers $500 Checks to Local Teachers

A week before the fabled first day of school, 109 Fountain Valley School District teachers – one of them in absentia because she went into labor hours before – collected $500 check at the board meeting. The pennies from heaven arrived courtesy of Assistance League of Huntington Beach.  This year, the chapter raised almost $110,000 […]

Los Gatos-Saratoga – Helps Meets the Needs of Many in the Community

In a town where the median household income is estimated to be more than $200,000 per year and the annual income reaches $160,000, it’s difficult to consider that a portion of the population is living in poverty–so much so to where a child doesn’t own a dictionary or a warm coat for the winter, or […]

Atlanta – Operation School Bell

Assistance League of Atlanta Adds Homeless Middle School Students to its School Clothing Program — In addition to serving more than 12,600 impoverished elementary students in three Atlanta school systems Assistance League of Atlanta, an all-volunteer, charitable organization that helps improve the lives of children and adults in need, is getting ready for another school year. […]

Atlanta – Scholarships

Assistance League of Atlanta Tops $600,000 in Scholarship Funds Awarded Since 2003 — Helping more than 300 local college students active in community service who need financial assistance Assistance League of Atlanta, a charitable organization committed to serving children and adults in need in our communities through philanthropic programs, distributed $53,000 in scholarship funds in May, […]

Many “Mrs. Book” Promote Literacy for Children

He came hurtling toward her shouting, “Mrs. Book, Mrs. Book” when he saw her again in the fall. He was a four-year-old Headstart preschool student in the Chicago area, and she is a volunteer reader with the Chicagoland West chapter of Assistance League. Their interaction typifies the nationwide relationships between students and volunteers in Assistance […]