Let’s call this end-of-year celebration to order!! AL of San Jose outgoing and incoming board members held their transitional meeting followed by an outdoor lunch on a beautiful sunny summer day. Program/Committee chairs, along with active support members, joined in the fun followed by their own meeting. We know how to celebrate!

AL of San Jose volunteers have begun reading to mothers in the Parisi House on the Hill treatment center. Our goal is to model for mothers how to engage their children with literature, make reading fun, and teach new concepts through song. We are providing more tools to help moms become better parents to their […]

Assistance Guild of San Jose began on March 17, 1983. Five years later the guild met all criteria to become Assistance League of San Jose. The charter was signed at the Fairmont Hotel on June 3, 1988. We’re now 155 members strong and still growing. Join us!

AL of San Jose truly enjoys our partnership with CityTeam Ministries by helping end the hardship in San Jose. After many months unable to work indoors at CityTeam due to the pandemic, we have returned six times this year to sort and arrange clothes for their neighborhood pop-up closets. The chapter also prepared and donated […]

Al of San Jose is passionate about supporting our community. Every month, year round, our volunteers prepare and deliver meals to the residents at Family Supportive Housing.

AL of San Jose members welcome our new President and Board with open hands and hearts. We are excited to continue to transform the lives of children and adults through our programs under your leadership. Here’s to 2022-2023!

AL of San Jose members began the Caring Hands program in 2008 to create knitted and crocheted items for infants, chemo patients and aging seniors. The program continues today and has been enhanced with quilters. In 2021-2022 Caring Hands donated over 7,000 items to local hospitals and shelters.

During the 2021-2022 school year, AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program distributed over 11,000 books to 1,250 elementary students to keep as their own. Another 600+ books were donated to 53 classrooms. We know that Readers become Leaders!

We give heartfelt thanks to our fearless president who inspired us to find new ways to meet the essential needs in our community during the pandemic so that families flourish. For your humor, creativity, energy and love of giving to those in need… We Thank YOU!

During the 2021-2022 school year, AL of San Jose’s Readers Are Leaders program distributed 11,250 books to students to keep and take home. Each student in the program received 9 books: 1 National Geographic book as a holiday gift and 8 books from the series “What If You Had Animal….” by Sandra Markle, illustrated by […]

Thank you to our donors who have so generously given to Al of San Jose so that we could transform the lives of children and adults through community programs this year. We couldn’t have accomplished so much without your support.

Assistance League of San Jose volunteers are excited to begin working as Co-Librarians and Occasional Volunteers during Story Hour / Library Time in the Parisi House on the Hill library.

Every month Assistance League of San Jose volunteers bring Bingo to residents in two rehabilitation facilities. The residents tell us we bring great prizes. We also bring fun, smiles and socialization to their day!

CityTeam is one of AL of San Jose’s programs that meets the needs of our community by helping to provide those that need support in these struggling times. We know they can rise above their circumstances if given the right tools to succeed.

Our Caring Hands group has so much fun creating blankets and hats for newborns and teaching each other crochet tips. A onesie goes along with each layette when it is delivered to O’Connor Hospital and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for new moms. The first Caring Hands member to sign up on SignUpGenius, a new […]

From February 15th through March 31st, Assistance League of San Jose was selected to receive a $1 donation from each purchase of the $2.99 reusable Give Back Bag at the stores located at our local #luckysupermarkets at 844 Blossom Hill Road and 430 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose CA. Thank You for choosing AL of […]

Assistance League of San Jose and the Brandeis National Committee’s Santa Clara Valley Chapter enjoyed a very successful FUNdraising luncheon event on May 3rd, with 195 attendees and five exciting authors. Thank you all for your support and thank you to the volunteers who worked so hard to make the event a success. Don’t miss […]

When Readers Are Leaders delivered “Earth! My First 5.4 Billion Years” by Stacy McAnulty and David C. Litchfield to 53 classrooms in San Jose, over 1400 students learned about time. They each received a time capsule with a questionnaire about their life and can seal it in an envelope with a sticker to keep for […]