Our Community Service Programs

Transforming Lives • Strengthening Community

Readers Are Leaders Volunteer reading in classroom

Readers Are Leaders

During the 2023-24 school year, our members read two books each month to 1,200 students in 50 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.

Screening Eyes Early working with a child

Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.)

During the 2023-24 year, the Screening Eyes Early Program screened 498 preschool children at 17 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 to the city’s residents in need.

Bagging Uniforms

Operation School Bell®

During the 2023-24 school year, Assistance League of San Jose provided school uniforms and sweatshirts to over 5,000 students in San Jose schools (pants, shirts, sweatshirts, underwear and socks).

Baby in layette from Caring Hands

Caring Hands

In the 2023-24 year, Caring Hands created over 2,600 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

24+

thousand hours volunteered

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Mentors & Mentees Ⓜ️&Ⓜ️ Celebration

What a 🙌 merry time the new members and their mentors had 🥳 celebrating! The Ⓜ️&Ⓜ️ theme was carried out with a fun candy “gumball” party favors and colorful “M” placements along with a ❓”guess”❓ the M&M jar quantity. The members had a 🥰wonderful time 👍 sharing their experiences with each other with these 🤗 […]

Let’s Connect! ⚡️🔌⚡️

Please help us spread the word 📣 about Assistance League®️ of San Jose! Include us when you post on social media! We are 👏🏼 proud of what we do in our community with our❣️ volunteer programs. ✅ Check us out at www.alsj.org to see all that we do! ✅ Tag us on Facebook! #assistanceleagueofsanjose ✅ […]

Dining for Dollar at California Fish Grill February 20th

Come 🍽️ dine at California Fish Grill on Thursday, February 20th 11:00 am to 8:00 pm. The 🐟 restaurant will 💲 donate back 25% of your orders to our chapter (not including beverages). Your 💲 support will help us continue to serve those need in our 🥰 community. ✅ Check out all that we do […]

Lunch with the Authors – March 6th

Register for “Lunch with the Authors” before it’s too late! Five great authors and a delicious lunch – a reader’s delight! You will be able to speak with the authors and purchase personally autographed books. Join us and put the FUN into FUNdraiser. Registration closes on February 20th. To learn more about this great fundraiser, […]

Operation School Bell Delivers Sweatshirts to San Jose Schools

In January, volunteers sorted and delivered over 4,600 sweatshirts to 41 San Jose elementary schools 🏫. The sweatshirts will help keep students in need warm on cold San Jose days. It can be pretty cool inside the classrooms as well as outside, making it hard to concentrate on lessons.❄️ Every sweatshirt represents a hug 🥰 […]

Readers Are Leaders

Our Readers Are Leaders 📚volunteers read in 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms to instill a love of reading in the children. 👧👦In January, we read “Sea Bear, A Journey For Survival” by Lindsay Moore and “Aaron Slater, Illustrator” by Andrea Beaty. Even though the kids are very happy when we enter, we’re not sure who […]

Thank You from the American Red Cross

AL of San Jose’s vision is… To ensure that essential needs are met in our community and families flourish. ❤️ 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Our members opened their hearts together in solidarity to help our neighboring communities in SoCal flourish during this devastating period in their lives.🥰

Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.)

🤔 Did you know that good eyesight leads to: 🛟 Safety 😃 Quality of life 👯‍♀️ Social interaction 🤓 Cognitive benefits 🥼 Early detection of health issues. 👏🏼 Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.) is early intervention which is the key to successful treatment. 🔎 Our trained screeners refer children to a doctor for a diagnosis when […]

Celebrating our Caring Hands Program

🎉 Every year, our dedicated Caring Hands volunteers donate around 2,500 onesies and hand-crocheted blankets to the newborns 👶 at Santa Clara County Medical Center. This January, we held our annual baby shower so all members could celebrate the successful program and donate onesies for the layettes. We were honored to have Christina Egan, the […]

Thank You, Safeway for Your Generous Readers Are Leaders Grant

Our partnership with Safeway Foundation empowers us to make a difference in our Readers Are Leaders program.👏🏽 Our 📚 Readers Are Leaders program instills the love of reading in 👦🏽👧🏽 young students by having volunteers read two books a month in their classrooms. These books are donated to the classroom. We also provide each student […]

Aila Malik Visits Parisi House on the Hill

AL of San Jose arranged a special visit for Parisi House on the Hill. Author of books for children, lawyer, non-profit executive and social justice champion, Aila Malek, read her book “Pocket Mommy” to the moms at Parisi House, staying to answer their questions.👏⚖️ Each mom received a copy of “Pocket Mommy”, signed by the […]

Dinner for Residents of Family Supportive Housing

Assistance League of San Jose volunteers continue to deliver homemade dinners for the residents of Family Supportive Housing once a month. There is nothing like a home-cooked meal! 😋 Do you like to cook?👩‍🍳🍽️ Join us!

News & Events

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  • Events
  • News

Mentors & Mentees Ⓜ️&Ⓜ️ Celebration

What a 🙌 merry time the new members and their mentors had 🥳 celebrating! The Ⓜ️&Ⓜ️ theme was carried out with a fun candy “gumball” party favors and colorful “M” placements along with a ❓”guess”❓ the M&M jar quantity. The members had a 🥰wonderful time 👍 sharing their experiences with each other with these 🤗 […]

Let’s Connect! ⚡️🔌⚡️

Please help us spread the word 📣 about Assistance League®️ of San Jose! Include us when you post on social media! We are 👏🏼 proud of what we do in our community with our❣️ volunteer programs. ✅ Check us out at www.alsj.org to see all that we do! ✅ Tag us on Facebook! #assistanceleagueofsanjose ✅ […]

Dining for Dollar at California Fish Grill February 20th

Come 🍽️ dine at California Fish Grill on Thursday, February 20th 11:00 am to 8:00 pm. The 🐟 restaurant will 💲 donate back 25% of your orders to our chapter (not including beverages). Your 💲 support will help us continue to serve those need in our 🥰 community. ✅ Check out all that we do […]

Lunch with the Authors – March 6th

Register for “Lunch with the Authors” before it’s too late! Five great authors and a delicious lunch – a reader’s delight! You will be able to speak with the authors and purchase personally autographed books. Join us and put the FUN into FUNdraiser. Registration closes on February 20th. To learn more about this great fundraiser, […]

Operation School Bell Delivers Sweatshirts to San Jose Schools

In January, volunteers sorted and delivered over 4,600 sweatshirts to 41 San Jose elementary schools 🏫. The sweatshirts will help keep students in need warm on cold San Jose days. It can be pretty cool inside the classrooms as well as outside, making it hard to concentrate on lessons.❄️ Every sweatshirt represents a hug 🥰 […]

Readers Are Leaders

Our Readers Are Leaders 📚volunteers read in 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms to instill a love of reading in the children. 👧👦In January, we read “Sea Bear, A Journey For Survival” by Lindsay Moore and “Aaron Slater, Illustrator” by Andrea Beaty. Even though the kids are very happy when we enter, we’re not sure who […]

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