Readers Are Leaders – Reading is Fun!

‘Zonia’s Rain Forest’ by Juana Martinez-Neal was delivered to classrooms with a special enrichment activity inviting over 1400 students to think about what they can do to help the…

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Thank You’s from Parisi House on the Hill

“When I receive gifts and donations from people who believe in my sobriety, it gives me more motivation . . . to believe in myself because there are others…

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Over $1,300 in Gift Cards Donated to Family Supportive Housing

The final tally is in! During the holidays, AL of San Jose members donated over $1,300 in Target gift cards to the families at San Jose’s Family Supportive Housing….

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Assist-a-Shelter Delivers

The January 2022 Assist-a-Shelter dinner team delivered a prepared meal of Sloppy Joes for Family Supportive Housing. The doggies helped too and made it a fun activity!! Beautiful handmade…

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More New Clothing Delivered to San Jose Schools

Operation School Bell (OSB) volunteers have delivered our 2nd allotment of clothing to elementary children in need. Polo shirts, sweatshirts, socks and underwear will help keep the children clothed…

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A Shower of Onesies at our Drive-In Baby Shower

Due to Covid, this year we had our second drive-in Baby Shower. So far we’ve collected over 1300 onesies for Caring Hands to use in the layettes we assemble…

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Readers Are Leaders Grant Adds Books to Classrooms

AL of San Jose gifts to every teacher in our Readers Are Leaders program a grant of $50 to purchase books to enhance their classroom libraries. Here’s a thank…

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Holiday Gifts for Readers Are Leaders

Barnes & Noble collected 815 books from customers who chose to donate to Readers Are Leaders after their purchases in December. Thank you for such a wonderful holiday gift…

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Holiday Shopping & Wrapping at Family Supportive Housing

Our AL of San Jose members helped 20-25 children living at Family Supportive Housing select gifts for their families. We wrapped about 120 gifts from the children’s selections. It…

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Wrapping Gifts with CityTeam

CityTeam San Jose has provided donated gifts for children in low income areas at two pop-up sites. After the children selected their gifts, our ALSJ volunteers cheerfully wrapped their…

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