Our Community Service Programs

Transforming Lives • Strengthening Community

2016 Betty reading at Stipe

Readers Are Leaders

During the 2019-20 school year, our members read two books each month to over 1,300 students in 55 second and third grade classrooms. The books, along with related projects, are left in the classroom. At holiday time, each child received a book of their own to take home.

Screening Eyes Early working with a child

Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.)

During the 2019-20 year, the Screening Eyes Early Program screened over 400 preschool children at 17 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 volunteer at CityTeam, helping to provide clothing to the city’s residents in need.

Bagging Uniforms

Operation School Bell®

During the 2021-22 school year, Assistance League of San Jose provided school uniforms to over 6,000 students in 42 schools (pants, shirts and socks).

Baby in layette from Caring Hands

Caring Hands

In the 2019-20 year, Caring Hands created over 7,200 items, including baby blankets,  booties, chemo caps and lap blankets for patients at Valley Medical Center, Family Supportive Housing, and two residential care facilities.

Senior Bingo at A Grace

Senior Bingo

Assistance League members provide craft activities, bingo with small prizes, holiday foods and musical entertainment 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

$205

thousand dollars (over 94%) returned to the San Jose community

20

thousand people served in the San Jose community

33+

thousand hours volunteered

News & Events

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Senior Bingo is Back!

AL of San Jose members have fun playing Bingo monthly at two residential care centers in San Jose. For the people who live there, it is a highlight of their month! We bring prizes for every resident because everyone is a winner!

Dinners Delivered with Care and Love

Planning, Shopping, Cooking Delivering! Love to cook? Our members plan home-cooked, fresh and nourishing dinner menus, shop for ingredients, and cook and deliver one time a month for families in need at Family Supportive Housing.

I Love it Here!

At our recent 40th Year Celebration we asked members why AL of San Jose has been so successful for 40 years. Here is one answer. Click on our website at www.alsj.org to see all we do for the San Jose community.

Spreading Joy at Parisi House on the Hill

Happy mothers with their children receiving delightful books after our volunteers read to them in Spanish and in English at Parisi House. We enjoy reading, singing and teaching sign language to the babies every month. Love reading to spread joy, then join us!

Love to read to children? Come join our chapter!

We are excited that our AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program is in full swing! Our Team Leads are picking up the books that will be read in the classrooms. For seven months of the school year, beginning in October, we enjoy reading two books to the students in the fifty-one 2nd and […]

We Shop, Bake and Deliver for Our Community

What fun to be treated with a cookie as an incentive while doing homework, or find a surprise cookie in one’s lunch! Time to help in your community? We shop, bake and deliver fresh homemade cookies for children and their families at Family Supportive Housing.

Delivering More Uniforms!

We are happily delivering uniforms, socks, and underwear to our local school districts during the months of August and September. It’s important for all children to have these mandated uniforms to feel a part of their school community. Uniforms create cohesion, remove peer pressure, improve study ethic, & provide for easier mornings for students and […]

Cuddly Bears and Quilts for FSH

AL of San Jose donates cuddly bears and beautifully hand-made quilts to the residents at Family Supportive Housing. There’s nothing more welcoming to a shelter than a bear to hug for strength and a quilt to wrap around yourself for security. Please check us out to see all of the wonderful donations we make to […]

Sorting, Packing and Bagging at CityTeam

Our members busily work at CityTeam sorting food for distribution to families in low income neighborhoods of San Jose. Healthy items getting sorted and packed include fresh fruits, veggies, beans and chickens.

Thank You for Your Support

Thanks to the support of our corporate donors, AL of San Jose is able to read to children in classrooms and gift thousands of books to schools and to children every year. Your donation can purchase a book for a future leader!

Readers Are Leaders – Making Reading Fun

Readers Are Leaders volunteers create activities to supplement the books they will read to students in 52 San Jose 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. They recently met to read all of the 2023-24 books and brainstorm ideas for activities. These activities will enrich the students’ reading experience, make reading more fun and help instill a […]

Welcome to some of our newest members!

Our newest members all put their best feet forward at our Annual Western-themed Picnic. Everyone enjoyed good vittles, great conversation, and we even did a little dancin’! Yee hah! Y’all click on our website at www.alsj.org to see all we do for the San Jose community.

News & Events

  • All
  • News
  • Uncategorized

Senior Bingo is Back!

AL of San Jose members have fun playing Bingo monthly at two residential care centers in San Jose. For the people who live there, it is a highlight of their month! We bring prizes for every resident because everyone is a winner!

Dinners Delivered with Care and Love

Planning, Shopping, Cooking Delivering! Love to cook? Our members plan home-cooked, fresh and nourishing dinner menus, shop for ingredients, and cook and deliver one time a month for families in need at Family Supportive Housing.

I Love it Here!

At our recent 40th Year Celebration we asked members why AL of San Jose has been so successful for 40 years. Here is one answer. Click on our website at www.alsj.org to see all we do for the San Jose community.

Spreading Joy at Parisi House on the Hill

Happy mothers with their children receiving delightful books after our volunteers read to them in Spanish and in English at Parisi House. We enjoy reading, singing and teaching sign language to the babies every month. Love reading to spread joy, then join us!

Love to read to children? Come join our chapter!

We are excited that our AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program is in full swing! Our Team Leads are picking up the books that will be read in the classrooms. For seven months of the school year, beginning in October, we enjoy reading two books to the students in the fifty-one 2nd and […]

We Shop, Bake and Deliver for Our Community

What fun to be treated with a cookie as an incentive while doing homework, or find a surprise cookie in one’s lunch! Time to help in your community? We shop, bake and deliver fresh homemade cookies for children and their families at Family Supportive Housing.

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