Each time our Readers Are Leaders volunteers read📖 to students in San Jose classrooms, they also bring enrichment projects that coordinate with each of the 12 books they read during the year. 👩‍🏫Teachers can distribute the projects at any time that is convenient or let the students take them home.🏡 🧩🖍️📝✂️Students may work word puzzles, […]

Thank you Al Castello’s Ristorante & Pizzeria 🥗 for supporting our Dining for Dollars ＄fundraiser event. Our members had a 👏🏼 wonderful time gathering together,🗣️talking, and 🤣 laughing while enjoying a 😋 delicious meal! Our Dining for Dollars is one of the many 🥰 fabulous fundraising events we have as a chapter. Want to experience […]

Family Supportive Housing enjoyed their own laboratory experience at AL of San Jose’s recent quarterly Enrichment Program. Retired middle school science teachers from our chapter taught families about owls.🦉 After presentations about skeletons🦴and owls,🦉each child picked apart an owl pellet to see what the owl had eaten. They were excited to find many tiny mammal […]

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Each month, our members seek out “buys” to 🛒 shop for and then 🛍️ prepare toiletries for 🚗 delivery to CityTeam. CityTeam distributes these 🛍️bagged toiletries to individuals in need within our community. The bags include essential items such as toothpaste, 🪥 toothbrushes, 🧼🧽 soap, 🧴 shampoo, 🪒 razors, and even 🧦 socks for both […]

🙏🏻We were grateful to attend the Donor Appreciation Event at Parisi House on the Hill, a Momentum for Health program. We toured the space, heard a powerful story from a program graduate, and saw how our Story Hours, homemade cookies, and donations truly make a difference for mothers and their children. It was a heartwarming […]

The AL of San Jose Caring Hands program donates over 200 baby blankets🧑‍🍼👨‍🍼🤱 each month to the Santa Clara Medical Center and its affiliates, Parisi House on the Hill and San Jose Family Supportive Housing. We also donate lap blankets to two convalescent homes👴👵🧓. 🧶Busy hands are helping us keep over 2,000 babies and many […]

🥗 Lunch with the📚Authors serves as our primary 💲fundraiser for the year, and the March 5th was an incredible 👏🏼 success! The fundraiser allows us to continue to serve 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 families and 🧒👧🏽👦🏽 children in need within our community. Five amazing authors shared their journeys into ✍🏼 writing and discussed their latest books. Kudos to […]

They cheer😀 when we arrive and thank us🙏when we leave. No wonder the Readers Are Leaders (RAL) program is so loved by our members💕! This month, volunteers read “How to Find a Bird” 🦆🦅🐦by Jennifer Ward, illustrated by Diana Sudyka and “Knight Owls and Early Bird” 🦉🐥written and illustrated by Christopher Denise, to over 1,000 […]

Who has more fun playing the “Eye Game”? The AL of San Jose screeners or the students? It’s a tie every time. 🥳 The screeners are appreciative of the time interacting with the students. 👫🏻 The students love playing with the occluder glasses and getting praise for having better vision than the screeners 🤣 The […]

During one of our Regular Monthly Meetings in March, AL of San Jose 👏 teamed up with CityTeam to organize a donation drive. Guest speaker Eileen Perez, a Food Pantry Specialist at CityTeam, shared enlightening 🤩 insights about the significant ways they assist the community in need. 👏 Thank you Eileen! Our members truly excelled […]

Recently, Author/Lawyer/Activist Aila Malik spoke to the Parisi House on the Hill mothers on the topics of “humility” and “empathy”. 🥰She references these as she discussed her book “Mommy Am I American?.” 🤔 The mothers engaged 🗣️ in her topics openly and meaningful discussions took place. 😍 The bookstore, Hicklebees, donated high interest children’s books […]

What a merry time the new members and their mentors had 🥳 celebrating! The Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ M&M theme was carried out with a fun candy 🍬 “gumball” party favor and colorful “M” placements along with a “guess” the M&M jar quantity. The members had a 🥰wonderful time 👍 sharing their experiences including a spirited sharing of […]

When we wear our AL tops, people may ask about Assistance League. Take the opportunity to tell them about our chapter and all that we do for the community.💬😊 Let’s check our closets for an AL of San Jose t-shirt, vest or button-down! 👚Wear it on Wednesday (or any day!) 🗓️and introduce neighbors to AL […]

Children 👦 👧 at Family Supportive Housing created their own puppets 👹 for a puppet show with the help of AL of San Jose volunteers. The kids had fun and so did the volunteers! Do you like working with children? 🥰 Do you like flexing your creative muscles? 💪 Check us out. We sponsor several […]

🤲🏼🤲🏻Together, we brought in over $5,000 💵 for ALSJ with HundredX. Every member, family member, and friend over 18 👨🏼‍🦱👩🏼‍🦳👨🏼‍🦳👨🏼‍🦰🧔🏼‍♂️was able to take part, and it couldn’t have been easier 🥳—just a short comment and an emoji tap on a wide range of brands. HundredX gathers consumer feedback and turns it into meaningful support for […]

In ❤️ February our members went to BJs Restaurant & Brewhouse 🍺 🍔 for our Dining For Dollars fundraiser. 😋 Yummy! We are 😊 grateful to @bjsrestaurants for donating a generous % percentage of our members’ meals 🥘 to our ALSJ programs. Everything was delicious! 😋 And it was a 🤗 fun time hanging out […]

📚In February, Readers Are Leaders (RAL) volunteers read “Mavis the Bravest” by Lu Fraser, illustrated by Sarah Warburton and “Solitary Animals” by Joshua David Stein, illustrated by Dominique Ramsey to 48 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms in San Jose. Students loved the books and they love the readers, too!💖 Both books📔📕were donated to the classroom […]