Our Readers Are Leaders program donated over 200 books 📚 to Valley Health Foundation’s pediatric library. Valley Health Foundation replied, “THANK YOU 🙏🏼 for you recent gift! Your generous in-kind donation makes such a difference in supporting, innovating and advocating better health for all.😊 When you give, you do all this and more. Your provide […]

Family Supportive Housing is so appreciative 🥰 of the warm and cozy quilts 🛌 our talented members create for those in this shelter.🏠 🙏🏼 “Thank you for your generous donation of quilts! As summer begins🌞, your support 🎗️ brings warmth, joy, and a sense of stability to the families in our care. We are deeply […]

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 […]

AL of San Jose 🥰 warmly 👏greeted our 🆕 new members during their orientation, where they learned how 💻 technology enhances our membership experience. It was a 🥰 delightful opportunity to forge ⚡️connections and assist members in logging into our LeagueLink 👩🏻‍💻 website, enabling them to stay updated on all chapter activities. We 😁 eagerly […]

The goal of our Readers Are Leaders (RAL) program is to instill in children a love 😍 of reading. To love reading one must have access to books. 📚 RAL volunteers read books in elementary school 🏫classrooms, donate books 📕 to the classroom library and gift books to the children to create a home library.🤓🗃️ […]

🙏🏻 Thank you to Britt George Foundation for their support and generous grant. 🙏 Their mission is to support and uplift our neighbors during challenging times.👨🏽‍👩‍👧🏼‍👦🏽 ALSJ is dedicated to transform the lives of children and adults through community programs.👖📚With the help of organizations such as the Britt George Foundation we are able to turn […]

As we 🦵🏼kick-off the 2025-2026 year for AL of San Jose, our Board and Chairs enjoyed a 😁😁delightful outing at the Lunch With The Leaders event. 👏 Current and 👏 past Board members and Chairs came together to share in the 🎊festivities. A 😋delicious lunch was provided by the current Board! Our president hosted a […]

AL of San Jose is 💕 privileged to partner with Family Supportive Housing to provide 🍔 🥗 dinners to the residents once a month. We are so grateful and 🥰appreciative of your 🙏acknowledgments. We also provide dinners and serve the meal several times a year. It is so 👏 rewarding and 🤗 fun to interact […]

The daughter of an AL of San Jose member works at TriNet in Dublin, CA. She learned about our program at Parisi House on the Hill, a drug and alcohol rehab facility for mothers with children under five years old, and spread the word at work. Soon her fellow TriNet workers were donating every item […]

AL of San Jose volunteers make a difference. The total volunteer hours reached 27,558 for our 2024-2025 year!👏👏 Members crocheted baby blankets🧶, read in classrooms📖, cooked dinners👩‍🍳😋, baked cookies🍪, delivered uniforms📦, packed groceries🥖 and toiletries🪥🧼, conducted vision tests for preschoolers👓, organized family events🌱🎵, distributed teddy bears🐻 to children in trauma, played bingo at long-term residences👴👵and […]

AL of San Jose’s Operation School Bell® (OSB) volunteers👭🏻 are ready to get to work now that our school uniforms 📦 have arrived. First, we separate them by size and color. Then we bag the uniforms 👕👖 by school. Finally, we deliver them to our children in need. 👧🏻👦🏼🧒🏿 This uniformity helps to create a […]

What is Assistance League of San Jose❓ If you see someone wearing an AL of San Jose t-shirt, just ask! They’ll tell you about our programs. There is probably a program that interests you. Volunteers are encouraged to wear their chapter t-shirts at meetings, programs and when they are out in the community. 📆We “Wear […]

We connect with the residents at A Grace Sub Acute and Stonebrook Rehab facilities when we help with Bingo!🧓🏼👴🏽 Sometimes we are the only visitors the residents get a visit from.💖 They love picking out the 3-in-1 body wash, shampoo and conditioner 🧴🧼as their prize and the residents were so excited to receive the four […]

Our volunteers always have a great time 😁 partnering with CityTeam to fill bags with food items 🥫 to help those in need. Food packing takes place three times a month 📅 and each time we are always striving to fill as many bags as possible. Want to have a fun and rewarding time helping […]

This year, AL of San Jose Readers Are Leaders volunteers partnered with the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Library to select books for the 2025-2026 school year. 📚📚 Thank you, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Nolan for supplying us with so many wonderful books to choose from!🙏 And thank you to our generous donors who support this […]

Our chapter provides 🧸 cuddly bears to 5️⃣ community agencies to share with children in need of a little ❤️ love. We even ❤️ love cuddling our ALSJ 🧸 t-shirted bears! Want to help spread ❤️ love and 🤗 joy! Join us!

In May, AL of San Jose volunteers, including our Master Gardener member, helped children plant a garden🌱🪴 at #familysupportivehousing. Members returned to FSH to thank staff🙏 for their support and see how the garden was growing. What a difference a little time and care can make! 💧🌞🌻 Manuel Zapien, a staff member at FSH who […]

Our members had the pleasure of 📖 reading to👧🏽 2nd and👦🏽 3rd graders once a month from 🗓️ October to April. It was incredibly rewarding to 👀 witness the excitement of the 👧🏽 🧒 students as they discovered which📕 📗 two books we would share with them each month, along with the special 🧩 enrichment […]