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 […]

AL of San Jose members showed creativity by developing and leading their own enrichment classes🎶👩🏼‍🌾 , engaging both children and adults 👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏻👪 at Family Supportive Housing. Throughout the year, members brought in 40 dozen homemade cookies 🍪🍪, and prepared 600 dinners.🍗🍽️🍝

Throughout the year, AL of San Jose members knit and crochet blankets that are given to hospitals for newborns 👶, to Parisi House for their moms 👧 and babies, and to care facilities 👵🏼 Do you knit or crochet? 🧶 Want to help your community? Join us!

In our Assist-a-Shelter program, our members have: ~Supplied numerous 🧴 🧼 🪒toiletry kits that are distributed by CityTeam to individuals in 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♀️ 👧🏽 👦🏽 shelters and those experiencing homelessness. ~Packaged thousands of 🥫canned, 🍚 packaged, and 🥦 🌽🥒 fresh foods at CityTeamfor community members in need. What a 🙏 privilege it is to be […]

On June 11 it was no work and all play. New friends were made and old friends got to visit at our picnic. 👭 Games were played, songs were sung, 🎼 and we all just ‘hung loose’ 🤙with a Hawaiian theme. 🌺 Thank you to Zanotto’s who provided complete and delicious luncheons for everyone! 🥪 […]

Throughout the year, ALSJ members have actively interacted with clients at Parisi House on the Hill through 📗reading stories, bringing in 🍪🍪baked goods, published authors and stress-relief trainers, and in donating items, including 👕👖clothes,🪀🧸 toys and 📚books.

Visual impairment in preschoolers can affect motor skills 🏃🏻‍➡️, cognitive development 🤷🏽‍♀️, and social skills 👫. Some conditions such as amblyopia 👁️(lazy eye) can be cured completely if caught early. ALSJ trained screeners uncover dozens of these issues 👀 every year so these children can learn and develop without a visual handicap. 🧑🏻‍🏫

In our Operation School Bell® program, we’re not just providing school clothing👫🏻 — we’re helping build self-confidence and ensuring every student feels like they belong. 🥰 A beautiful thank you 🙏🏼we received that says it all: ❤️”Before the end of the school year, I want to say thank you for all your help and collaboration […]

AL of San Jose Readers Are Leaders volunteers delivered three books 📕📗📘 to every student in the program to keep, take home and read during the summer. 🌞That’s over 3,500 books delivered! The students couldn’t even wait until summer to open their new books.😃💗📖📖📖 It’s important that they keep reading throughout the summer months to […]

At the end of each year, we take a few minutes to reflect, to acknowledge, and to renew. We reflect on the past year’s accomplishments 🧐, we acknowledge last year’s board 👏🏽, and we renew our commitment to service with the induction of the incoming board. 👩‍❤️‍👩

Our AL of San Jose volunteers had an absolute💥blast 👩🏻‍🍳whipping up and🍛 dishing out a😋 scrumptious feast at Family Supportive Housing! Feast your eyes on this menu magic: Roasted Chicken🍗, ooey-gooey🧀 Mac n Cheese, fresh🥗 Salad,🥖 fluffy Rolls, 🥦 Broccoli Florets (even the kiddos gobbled them up!), 🌽 Corn on the Cob, and a smorgasbord […]

Thank you ❤️ to Intero Foundation for their generous grant towards our Readers are Leaders program. Your donation will help us continue our mission to instill the ❤️ love of reading in the classroom and at home. Each year we read two 📚books a month from October through April . We leave those books in […]

On a beautiful sunny Saturday, AL of San Jose volunteers, including our Master Gardener member, helped children plant a garden🌱🪴 at Family Supportive Housing. Each child learned about plants, planted seeds in egg cartons and helped create a tomato garden🧑‍🌾 at the facility. They will enjoy the tomatoes 🍅🍅 at the end of summer and […]

It’s the end of the school year and Readers Are Leaders volunteers have received kudos from the kids. 👏👏 Their handwritten letters and cards are special rewards🥰 for the readers who instill the joy of reading to over 1,000 San Jose 2nd and 3rd grade students six times a year. Today’s readers are tomorrow’s leaders!📖📖📖

A couple of times a year, ALSJ members and our families head to Jack Holder’s Restaurant and Bar.We can’t thank Jack Holder’s enough for donating a percentage 💵 of our supporters’ dinners to our cause.

In April, AL of San Jose Readers Are Leaders volunteers read the last two books📗📘for the school year. Now every classroom has 12📚📚📚📚new books in their class library and every student has received 6📚📚books of their own to take home. This summer, students will receive 3📚more books to take home and read during the summer […]

Each month, AL of San Jose volunteers fill over 80 bags with toiletries🪥🧼🧴🧦🪒 that CityTeam San Jose distributes to people in need in the community. That adds up to over 1,000 toiletry kits for men and women per year, filling a fundamental need in San Jose. These simple donations include toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, lip balm, […]