11

Sep

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 […]

10

Sep

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.

08

Sep

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 […]

01

Sep

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. […]

18

Aug

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. […]

Aug

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, […]