Assistance League

the Columbia Pacific – Receives $2,000 Donation

Assistance League of the Columbia Pacific members were presented with a check for $2,000 from the Windermere Foundation at the organization’s Nov. 7 fall luncheon. The luncheon is an annual celebration of volunteer contributions to the organization’s philanthropic programs benefiting Clatsop County school children in need. Pictured, from left, are Pam Ackley of Windermere Realty […]

Hemacinto & Temecula Valley – Receive Community Improvement Funds

Each member of the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has a discretionary Community Improvement Designation budget, and the Nov. 5 board of supervisors’ meeting included the allocation of CID funds to several local agencies. The grants included $9,000 for Friends of the Valley-Wide Foundation, $5,000 to Safe Family Justice Centers, $5,000 for The Salvation Army […]

Greater Wilmington – Newly Revamped Operation School Bell Opens

Operation School Bell® has turned a new leaf with the new school year to make sure local students have clean clothes and supplies to be successful.  View the video. According to a survey that was done earlier this year, one in five students doesn’t have access to clean clothes which makes it more likely to […]

Diablo Valley – Welcomes AAA as New Corporate Partner

Since 1994 Assistance League’s nationally acclaimed philanthropic program, Operation School Bell® has provided clothing to schoolchildren, which has resulted in improved attendance, campus citizenship and academic performance. Expanding its reach, the hands-on philanthropic program served more than 6,000 students in grades K-12 in 2018-2019. In 2006, Assistance League of Diablo Valley launched a Corporate Partners effort, where […]

Wichita – It Takes a Village to Make Gingerbread Houses

View the video. It takes a village to put on Gingerbread Village, a local gingerbread house-making event that draws thousands every year. It also takes 18,000 hand-cut graham crackers (sized for walls and a rooftop), 35 5-gallon buckets of icing and 1,836 pounds of candy and cereal, according to organizers. More than 200 volunteers are […]

Long Beach – Opens New Children’s Center

The need was there. The money is here, and now the facility has opened. Assistance League of Long Beach has begun serving more of the city’s children at the new Miller Children’s Center with needed orthodontic care, new school uniforms and school supplies.  Assistance League has been doing both of those things for some time […]