Our Senior Bingo volunteers are eagerly awaiting the reopening of Stonebrook Health and Rehabilitation nursing facility. Bingo games were suspended over a year ago, but that hasn’t deterred these creative ladies who are now busy making special bookmarks and gift bags for the residents.

Hurray! Finally, we were able to meet with our new and returning Board members and Committee Chairs outside at our Transition Luncheon.  It was nice to be out in the sunshine, share a meal and connect with friends. Thank you Pat, for sharing your beautiful backyard!

AL of San Jose received this special thank you HEART from Family Supportive Housing, thanking our Assist-a-Shelter volunteers for monthly dinner and bimonthly cookie deliveries, enrichment activities, treat bags, holiday decorations and two Little Explorer’s Petting Zoos.  Assistance League of San Jose is proud to support this local family shelter.

After nearly a year, AL of San Jose’s Assist-a-Shelter volunteers were excited to bring a petting zoo event to the children living at Family Supportive Housing. Seventeen children and a parent were able to reserve a time to get up close and pet these special animals. Hopefully, this will be the first of many activities […]

AL of San Jose found many ways to keep our volunteers very active during COVID. One of the ways was to create Learning with the League using our own experts to provide virtual classes to our membership. Thanks to Zoom, we instructed classes in technology, travel, gardening and cooking. Our latest class guided interested members […]

Thank you Jack Holder’s Restaurant & Bar for hosting our June Dining for Dollars fundraiser. This was our most successful Dining for Dollars fundraiser with many members and friends finally able to dine at a restaurant after so many months at home. What a treat!

“Stickies, we’ve got stickies, we’ve got lots and lots of stickie notes!!”  When you come to Jack Holders on June 1 for our fundraiser, look for the table with Assistance League members sitting and enjoying food and drink and note the basket full of stickie note pads.  Please take as many as needed for yourself […]

ALSJ member Charmein is with Larry Gerston at a celebrity lunch she won at our Close Encounters with the Authors fundraiser. Congratulations Charmein!

Our Assist a Shelter volunteers continue to bake dozens of cookies for the families currently residing at Family Supportive Housing. Giving needed support to this essential family shelter is always a priority of Assistance League of San Jose’s membership. 

Assistance League of San Jose would like to wish all our moms a fantastic day!

“To the wonderful volunteers from Assistance League San Jose: This week, you are in the spotlight for your commitment to serve. With the deepest gratitude for your boundless generosity, I thank you on behalf of Family Supportive Housing and the families we serve. We are sincerely grateful for the immeasurably valuable work you have done […]

With help from Barnes & Noble, our Readers are Leaders program was able to donate books to twelve schools across the San Jose Unified School District. Thank you, Barnes & Noble for your generosity!