Our Community Service Programs

Transforming Lives • Strengthening Community

Readers Are Leaders Volunteer reading in classroom

Readers Are Leaders

During the 2024-25 school year, our members read two books each month to over 1,000 students in 49 second and third grade classrooms. The books, along with related projects, are left in the classroom. Each child received a book of their own to take home at the holidays and 3 books to read over the summer.

Listening to Readers

Volunteers read aloud various genres of books to students in 2nd and 3rd grade San Jose schools, modeling reading with expression and instilling in students a love of reading.

Bagging Uniforms

Operation School Bell®

During the 2024-25 school year, Assistance League of San Jose provided school uniforms and sweatshirts to over 4,500 students in San Jose schools (pants, shirts, sweatshirts, underwear and socks).

Screening Eyes Early working with a child

Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.)

During the 2024-25 year, the Screening Eyes Early Program screened 528 preschool children at 19 pre-schools to detect early signs of amblyopia (lazy eye) and poor eyesight, alerting parents and teachers to possible sight issues.

Assist-a-Shelter Petting Zoo at Family Supportive Housing

Assist-a-Shelter

Members cook dinner once a month at San Jose’s Family Supportive Housing. Four times a year, they put on a special event for the families. Members also read to Moms and their children at Parisi House on the Hill and volunteer at CityTeam, helping to provide food and toiletries to the city’s residents in need.

Baby in layette from Caring Hands

Caring Hands

In the 2024-25 year, Caring Hands created over 2,300 baby blankets for new moms at local hospitals, plus additional quilts and lap blankets for Parisi House on the Hill, Family Supportive Housing, and two residential care facilities.

Senior Bingo at A Grace

Bingo

Assistance League members provide craft activities, bingo with small prizes, holiday foods and gift bags to residents at San Jose’s A Grace Sub Acute & Skilled Care facility and Stonebrook Convalescent Homes.

Hug-a-Bear

Hug-a-Bear

Assistance League of San Jose donates thousands of teddy bears to organizations serving children in crisis through organizations including the San Jose Police Department, Santa Clara County domestic abuse centers, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Family Supportive Housing.

Year in Review

94%

of funds raised are returned to the San Jose community

27+

thousand people served in the San Jose community

28

thousand hours volunteered

News & Events

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Thank You from Valley Health Foundation

Our Readers Are Leaders program donated over 200 books 📚 to Valley Health Foundation’s pediatric library. Valley Health Foundation replied, “THANK YOU 🙏🏼 for you recent gift! Your generous in-kind donation makes such a difference in supporting, innovating and advocating better health for all.😊 When you give, you do all this and more. Your provide […]

Thank You from Family Supportive Housing

Family Supportive Housing is so appreciative 🥰 of the warm and cozy quilts 🛌 our talented members create for those in this shelter.🏠 🙏🏼 “Thank you for your generous donation of quilts! As summer begins🌞, your support 🎗️ brings warmth, joy, and a sense of stability to the families in our care. We are deeply […]

Bag, Pack, Ready to Deliver!

The Operation School Bell program is in action for the 2025-26 school year! 🏫 AL of San Jose is sorting uniforms and packing them for delivery to elementary schools in San Jose. Thousands of uniforms will be donated for children in need in our community.📦📦📦 Students receive shirts, pants or leggings and socks. When all […]

New Member Orientation Meeting

AL of San Jose 🥰 warmly 👏greeted our 🆕 new members during their orientation, where they learned how 💻 technology enhances our membership experience. It was a 🥰 delightful opportunity to forge ⚡️connections and assist members in logging into our LeagueLink 👩🏻‍💻 website, enabling them to stay updated on all chapter activities. We 😁 eagerly […]

Readers Are Leaders Donates Books to Valley Health Foundation Pediatric Library

The goal of our Readers Are Leaders (RAL) program is to instill in children a love 😍 of reading. To love reading one must have access to books. 📚 RAL volunteers read books in elementary school 🏫classrooms, donate books 📕 to the classroom library and gift books to the children to create a home library.🤓🗃️ […]

Thank You, Britt George Foundation

🙏🏻 Thank you to Britt George Foundation for their support and generous grant. 🙏 Their mission is to support and uplift our neighbors during challenging times.👨🏽‍👩‍👧🏼‍👦🏽 ALSJ is dedicated to transform the lives of children and adults through community programs.👖📚With the help of organizations such as the Britt George Foundation we are able to turn […]

Lunch with the Leaders

As we 🦵🏼kick-off the 2025-2026 year for AL of San Jose, our Board and Chairs enjoyed a 😁😁delightful outing at the Lunch With The Leaders event. 👏 Current and 👏 past Board members and Chairs came together to share in the 🎊festivities. A 😋delicious lunch was provided by the current Board! Our president hosted a […]

Thank You from Family Supportive Housing

AL of San Jose is 💕 privileged to partner with Family Supportive Housing to provide 🍔 🥗 dinners to the residents once a month. We are so grateful and 🥰appreciative of your 🙏acknowledgments. We also provide dinners and serve the meal several times a year. It is so 👏 rewarding and 🤗 fun to interact […]

Thank You, TriNet!

The daughter of an AL of San Jose member works at TriNet in Dublin, CA. She learned about our program at Parisi House on the Hill, a drug and alcohol rehab facility for mothers with children under five years old, and spread the word at work. Soon her fellow TriNet workers were donating every item […]

Members Volunteered 27,588 Hours!

AL of San Jose volunteers make a difference. The total volunteer hours reached 27,558 for our 2024-2025 year!👏👏 Members crocheted baby blankets🧶, read in classrooms📖, cooked dinners👩‍🍳😋, baked cookies🍪, delivered uniforms📦, packed groceries🥖 and toiletries🪥🧼, conducted vision tests for preschoolers👓, organized family events🌱🎵, distributed teddy bears🐻 to children in trauma, played bingo at long-term residences👴👵and […]

Uniforms for Operation School Bell Arrive

AL of San Jose’s Operation School Bell® (OSB) volunteers👭🏻 are ready to get to work now that our school uniforms 📦 have arrived. First, we separate them by size and color. Then we bag the uniforms 👕👖 by school. Finally, we deliver them to our children in need. 👧🏻👦🏼🧒🏿 This uniformity helps to create a […]

Wear It on Wednesday

What is Assistance League of San Jose❓ If you see someone wearing an AL of San Jose t-shirt, just ask! They’ll tell you about our programs. There is probably a program that interests you. Volunteers are encouraged to wear their chapter t-shirts at meetings, programs and when they are out in the community. 📆We “Wear […]

News & Events

  • All
  • Donors
  • News

Thank You from Valley Health Foundation

Our Readers Are Leaders program donated over 200 books 📚 to Valley Health Foundation’s pediatric library. Valley Health Foundation replied, “THANK YOU 🙏🏼 for you recent gift! Your generous in-kind donation makes such a difference in supporting, innovating and advocating better health for all.😊 When you give, you do all this and more. Your provide […]

Thank You from Family Supportive Housing

Family Supportive Housing is so appreciative 🥰 of the warm and cozy quilts 🛌 our talented members create for those in this shelter.🏠 🙏🏼 “Thank you for your generous donation of quilts! As summer begins🌞, your support 🎗️ brings warmth, joy, and a sense of stability to the families in our care. We are deeply […]

Bag, Pack, Ready to Deliver!

The Operation School Bell program is in action for the 2025-26 school year! 🏫 AL of San Jose is sorting uniforms and packing them for delivery to elementary schools in San Jose. Thousands of uniforms will be donated for children in need in our community.📦📦📦 Students receive shirts, pants or leggings and socks. When all […]

New Member Orientation Meeting

AL of San Jose 🥰 warmly 👏greeted our 🆕 new members during their orientation, where they learned how 💻 technology enhances our membership experience. It was a 🥰 delightful opportunity to forge ⚡️connections and assist members in logging into our LeagueLink 👩🏻‍💻 website, enabling them to stay updated on all chapter activities. We 😁 eagerly […]

Readers Are Leaders Donates Books to Valley Health Foundation Pediatric Library

The goal of our Readers Are Leaders (RAL) program is to instill in children a love 😍 of reading. To love reading one must have access to books. 📚 RAL volunteers read books in elementary school 🏫classrooms, donate books 📕 to the classroom library and gift books to the children to create a home library.🤓🗃️ […]

Thank You, Britt George Foundation

🙏🏻 Thank you to Britt George Foundation for their support and generous grant. 🙏 Their mission is to support and uplift our neighbors during challenging times.👨🏽‍👩‍👧🏼‍👦🏽 ALSJ is dedicated to transform the lives of children and adults through community programs.👖📚With the help of organizations such as the Britt George Foundation we are able to turn […]

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