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 […]

Assistance League of Las Vegas honors the Engelstad Foundation

The Engelstad Foundation  received a National Operation School Bell Award for their most generous and continuous financial support of Assistance League of Las Vegas’ Operation School Bell Program.

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 […]

Child Hunger — What Can We Do?

Some Assistance League chapters are reaching out to help alleviate this need. Assistance League of Northern Virginia started a program in 2010 called “Weekend Food for Kids” that provides nutritional food for children to eat over the weekend. It started serving one school and now has grown to five Title I schools in Northern Virginia. […]

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. […]