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 […]

🎄Christmas in the Park has been a beloved San Jose tradition for decades, bringing joy to families across the community. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 ✨Each year, Assistance League of San Jose proudly decorates its tree, adding our touch to the celebration. 🎄🎅🏻🤶🏻🌟For us, the tree is more than ornaments—it’s a symbol of ALSJ’s commitment to connection, care, and […]

This year, AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program has partnered with the San Jose Public Library system. 📚 Librarians from the King Library helped us choose 12 books to read to 2nd and 3rd graders in San Jose throughout the school year. 🏫And each month, the libraries near the schools where we read, […]

AL of San Jose was delighted to 👏 welcome guest speaker, Dr. Jim Mahoney to our November Regular Meeting. 👏 Dr. Mahoney is a retired 👨🏻‍🏫teacher of 33 yrs. whose focus was in 📖 Special Education. He also taught a 🛟 Safety and Risk Management Certificate program for 28 yrs. at Cal State University of […]

🗓️ Our Giving Campaign begins December 2, 2025 and will run through the 🎄 holiday season. Our 🌡️ goal is $12,000. Please help us reach our 💵 goal so that we can continue to give back to our community. ❤️Our volunteers deliver 👕uniforms to schools in the fall, 📚read in classrooms each month from October-April, […]

Thank you Jack Holder’s Restaurant 🥗 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 a good […]

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 […]