🎄Christmas in the Park has been a beloved San Jose tradition for decades, bringing joy to families across the community. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ✨Each year, Assistance League of San Jose proudly decorates its tree, adding our touch to the celebration. 🎄🎅🏻🤶🏻🌟For us, the tree is more than ornaments—it’s a symbol of ALSJ’s commitment to connection, care, and […]

This year, AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program has partnered with the San Jose Public Library system. 📚 Librarians from the King Library helped us choose 12 books to read to 2nd and 3rd graders in San Jose throughout the school year. 🏫And each month, the libraries near the schools where we read, […]

AL of San Jose was delighted to 👏 welcome guest speaker, Dr. Jim Mahoney to our November Regular Meeting. 👏 Dr. Mahoney is a retired 👨🏻‍🏫teacher of 33 yrs. whose focus was in 📖 Special Education. He also taught a 🛟 Safety and Risk Management Certificate program for 28 yrs. at Cal State University of […]

🗓️ Our Giving Campaign begins December 2, 2025 and will run through the 🎄 holiday season. Our 🌡️ goal is $12,000. Please help us reach our 💵 goal so that we can continue to give back to our community. ❤️Our volunteers deliver 👕uniforms to schools in the fall, 📚read in classrooms each month from October-April, […]

Thank you Jack Holder’s Restaurant 🥗 for supporting our Dining for Dollars ＄fundraiser event. Our members had a 👏🏼 wonderful time gathering together,🗣️talking, and 🤣 laughing while enjoying a 😋 delicious meal! Our Dining for Dollars is one of the many 🥰 fabulous fundraising events we have as a chapter. Want to experience a good […]

Several times a month our volunteers 👭👭 bag food for CityTeam San Jose. Such a simple act can bring a smile 😀 to many in our 🏠 community, especially during the holidays. Our members have a good time chatting, getting to know each other all the while filling bags with a variety of packaged and […]

Our Readers Are Leaders 👸🏻program instills the love of reading 📚in young students 🧒🏻👦🏾 by having volunteers read in their classrooms on a regular basis. Readers Are Leaders 👸🏻volunteers entertain 🎭, enlighten, and encourage the students 👧🏻👦🏻. Our volunteers read quality, age-appropriate literature 📚 including books about science, biographies and fiction. On each visit members […]

Every month, AL of San Jose volunteers assemble toiletry kits to deliver to CityTeam for distribution to people in need in our community.🪥🧼🧴🪒 Since the beginning of our fiscal year in June, we have donated 423 kits! Most of these kits contain full-size items and were distributed to low income families, but some of our […]

“Dearest Donor, Family Supportive Housing thanks you from the bottom of our hearts for your support! As the weather cools and the holidays approach, community becomes more important than ever. Your generous contribution not only furthers our mission but also reminds families that their community truly cares. We are so grateful you are apart of […]

Our partnership with Star One Credit Union empowers us to make a difference in our community. 👏🏽 Whether it’s books 📚 for children, food 🥘 for the hungry, or clothing for babies in need 👩🏽‍🍼, together we can make a positive change for a better tomorrow! ❤️ Thank you Star One for your grant. We […]

Readers Are Leaders (RAL) has embarked on a partnership with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (King Library).👏 In September, librarians from the King Library conducted a training session with our readers to help them improve their skills reading to students. In October, in addition to the books students receive from the Assistance League📚, […]

Readers Are Leaders began the 2025-2026 school year reading 2 books in October.📗📘 Students listened carefully as volunteers read “The Curious Why” written by Angela DiTerlizzi & illustrated by Lorena Alvarez Gomez and “That’s Not My Name” written and illustrated by Anoosha Syed. Afterward, students participated in discussions about the stories. Student also received a […]