Our Readers Are Leaders Program Chairs met with Sunny Ochoa from the Valley Health Foundation to donate 300 books for patients to enjoy. 📚 Sunny also arranged a tour 👀of the pediatric ward teen room and children’s library. It was very inspiring🙏 to see the work being done to give light and space for patients […]

AL of San Jose was delighted to 👏 welcome guest speakers, Blake & Suzanne Hunter to our January Regular Meeting. 👏 Suzanne has been an active member of our chapter since 2024. She and her son Blake are both in the real estate business. They delivered an insightful presentation outlining the steps for downsizing as […]

In addition to the uniforms 👩‍🏫delivered at the beginning of the school year, Operation School Bell® 🔔 also delivered over 3,000 sweatshirts to 33 schools 🏫 and 1 Homeless and Foster Youth program.👏 Check the tabs under How We Help to learn more about Operation School Bell 🔔 and our other programs.

Over 1,000 Students in 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms in 49 San Jose elementary school classrooms welcomed Readers Are Leaders volunteers back to their classrooms for the first session of the new year.👏🎉 They listened to each book and then discussed📙”Abdul’s Story” by Jamilah Tompkins-bgelow, illustrated by Tiffany Rose and 📘 “Chez Bob” written and […]

AL of San Jose provides free vision screening to the preschool children in need in our community. 🤓 Do you know why? 😲 only 40% under 5 years have had their vision screened 👀, while 1 in 20 preschool-aged children 👫🏻have a vision problem.🤨 😲 1 in 50 children have amblyopia (lazy eye) and if […]

Register for “Lunch with the Authors”, Thursday, March 5, before it’s too late! Registration closes on February 21st. Five great authors and a delicious lunch! To learn more about this great fundraiser, visit our Fundraising page on alsj.org.

Dear Assistance League of SJ, On behalf of Family Supportive Housing, we are incredibly grateful 🙏🏼 for your generosity this December.Thank you so much for donating beautiful quilts 🛏️, yummy cookies 🍪, and cuddly teddy bears 🧸 to the families in our care! During a season filled with giving and reflection, your support brought comfort, […]

Everyone’s a 🏆 winner when we play Bingo with the residents at Stonebrook Health Center and A Grace Sub Acute & Skilled Care. ALSJ volunteers bring prizes including stuffed animals🧸, books📚, t-shirts👕, toiletries🧴, handmade quilts🧵 and more, offering a wide array of choices for all of the players. Each month the volunteers bring a little […]

Aila Malek, author of books for children, lawyer, non-profit executive and social justice champion, made her third appearance at Parisi House on the Hill. 👏⚖️ She read her book “Pocket Mommy” to the moms at Parisi House, staying to answer their questions. AL of San Jose gifted a copy of Aila’s book, “Pocket Mommy” to […]

Last year 📆, our Caring Hands volunteers donated 2370 layettes (blankets and onesies) 🫃🏽 to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center 🏥. For some families , these are the only possessions they possess for their newborns 👶. Our volunteers 👭 also made lap blankets for residents in two nursing and convalescent homes and layettes for babies […]

Parisi House on the Hill of Momentum for Health, is a nonprofit live-in facility for young mothers of children 5 years of age and younger. 🤰🏻 👫🏻 The mothers are court ordered to the facility to rehabilitate from drug and/or alcohol addiction. 🙏🏼 Assistance League of San Jose volunteers donate much needed items such as […]

ALSJ’s annual Holiday Party 🥳🎉 is always a good time. This year Palermo Restaurant provided food 🥘 and drink, 🍷delicioso! Many thanks to Magician Doug Jones 🪄who provided us with amazing, magical entertainment! 🥰 Thinking about volunteering in 2026? Looking to make new friends? 👩‍❤️‍👩 Check us out!

This year, ALSJ’s holiday elves 🧝‍♀️ wrapped gifts at Hicklebee’s Book Store. 📚 Hicklebee’s, which specializes in children’s 👭 books, has been a beloved landmark in Willow Glen since 1979. Donations were made to ALSJ for the wrapped gifts. 🎁Thank you, Hicklebee’s, for partnering with us for this fundraiser! 😁 Join us!

🙏🏼Thank you to the George and Jeanette Stuart Charitable Trust for their extraordinary gift in memory of George and Jeanette Stuart. 💖 Their support strengthens Operation School Bell 👖👕 and Readers Are Leaders 📚, helping us provide essential clothing and expand literacy programs for local students. 🧒🏾🧒👧🏼 Want to help your community? Donate now!

When she isn’t busy volunteering for our chapter, AL of San Jose member Sandy Freeze volunteers to design and decorate beautiful, imaginative holiday trees for friends and associates. For several years her trees have brightened the lobby at Family Supportive Housing. This season, residents in the facility helped Sandy turn their tree into a special […]

Tis the season! Readers Are Leaders volunteers distributed “The Fascinating Animal Book for Kids (500 Wild Facts!)” by Ginjer Clarke to all 1,036 students in the program to keep and take home.👏Each of the 49 classrooms received a book for their classroom library shelf, too. The students were so excited to receive their gifts from […]

Eleven AL of San Jose volunteers brought a morning of holiday joy ☺️💝to Family Supportive Housing. 33 residents from 11 families attended our Holiday Craft and Music event. Dipping into plates and bowls of sequins, pompoms, glitter, stickers and more, they decorated paper trees, people and snowflakes to create two murals that will hang in […]

🤔 Did you know: 🤓 80% of learning comes through the visual senses? 👀 1 in 20 preschool-age children have vision problems? 👏🏼 Screening Eyes Early (S.E.E.) is an early intervention program which is the key to successful treatment. 🔎 We train our screeners to refer children to a doctor/clinic for a diagnosis when the […]