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 […]

The Halloween Costume Shop at Family Supportive Housing opened to the delight of the children and parents living in the residence as they chose costumes for the holiday.👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 AL of San Jose volunteers had a preview of Halloween fun too, as they helped pick out a favorite costume🧹🤠🤠🤴🧚💀🧙‍♂️🪄🤡 for each child and handed out treats.🎉 […]

AL of San Jose has chosen 12 wonderful books 📚to read to students in 46 San Jose elementary school classrooms during this school year. 🏫 The selection includes a variety of biographies, science and fiction to spark their imaginations and introduce topics of interest. These 12 books will be added to each classroom library.📖📖 Every […]

AL of San Jose ❤️ loves baking cookies for the children at Family Supportive Housing. Each month members sign up to make 4 dozen different kinds of 🍪 cookies each. These delicious cookies are packaged in individual baggies and given to the 👦🏽🧒🏽children to go with their lunches or as an afternoon treat! Like to […]

Dear ALSJ, Thank you for your generous donation of quilts 🛏️, books 📚, teddy bears 🧸, and cookies 🍪! As summer 🌞 winds down, our families are settling in and getting cozy for the upcoming fall season 🍂. Your donation allows families to feel comfortable, respected, and cared 🥰for while they are staying in the […]

This year, the AL of San Jose Readers Are Leaders (RAL) volunteers teamed up with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library 📖 to select books for the 2025-2026 school year. 📚📚 From this selection, the RAL team chose a diverse range of 📚 books. Our volunteers will read two books each month to […]

In September our members went to Al Castello Ristorante 👩🏼‍🍳 for our Dining For Dollars fundraiser. What a treat! We can’t thank Al Castello enough for donating a generous percentage of our members’ meals 🥘 to ALSJ’s programs. Everything was delicious! 😋

AL of San Jose provides a 🗓️monthly 🥘 dinner for the residents of Family Supportive Housinng (FSH). In 🍁September, our chapter volunteers had an 😊 amazing time preparing and serving a delightful 🍗 meal to the residents at FSH. The residents savored a delicious feast that included roasted 🍗 chicken,🌽 corn on the cob, 🥦 […]

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 […]

It was so much fun 🥳 to bring back our Floral Fantasy Fundraiser! 🌻 Kren Rasmussen, owner of Bloomster’s and award-winning floral designer, kept us captivated with his behind-the-scenes stories while creating jaw-dropping floral arrangements. 💐 After a most entertaining display, we ate a delicious lunch 🥗 while catching up with other members and friends. […]

It’s that ⏰ time of year again, AL of San Jose has begun delivering 👕 uniforms to the 34 elementary 🏫 schools in San Jose schools. We deliver 📦 thousands of items of clothing to schools in three San Jose school districts for distribution to 👧🏽👦🏽 students by school personnel. Students receive 👕👖 shirts, pants […]

Once a month, AL of San Jose volunteers read📖 to the moms and their children living at Parisi House on the Hill. 🤱👩‍👧‍👦Tots five years old and younger live at Parisi House with their moms while their mothers are offered support to break free from addiction. Story Hour is a wonderful break for the residents […]