Join us on a professionally produced Zoom event for our Fall Floral Fantasy Fundraiser. Watch Kren Rasmussen of Bloomsters assemble his magnificent arrangements, enjoy a virtual tour of Bloomsters to see where the magic happens and have a chance to win a floral arrangement or other gift in a prize drawing. Click the heading above […]

Assistance League of San Jose continues to find innovative ways to plan and implement our essential committees and programs. We are now using Zoom for our regular and committee meetings and for program planning. Members’ voices and their smiling faces have encouraged and emboldened us to continue our important work especially during these challenging times.

Assistance League of San Jose has many volunteers keeping calm at home by baking cookies for the children’s lunch program at Family Supportive Housing. Yum! We are proud to assist this San Jose area shelter which provides temporary housing and specific counseling support to families in crisis.

Although Assistance League of San Jose volunteers cannot enter Family Supportive Housing (FSH) at this time, we continue to support this family shelter through our Friday Night Dinner program. Our volunteers provide and deliver home-cooked dinners and desserts. FSH provides vital housing and support services to guide families from crisis to independent lives in our […]

The volunteer bakers at Assistance League of San Jose baked 480 cookies this week! After baking, these ladies delivered their goodies to Family Supportive Housing, a local shelter. FSH uses these special cookies in their child lunch program and for homework snacks.

Due to COVID-19, ALSJ volunteers can no longer enter the Stonebrook Health and Rehab Facility to conduct monthly Bingo games. This week our Stonebrook volunteers, including three new members, met in a park to put together 35 goody bags for the residents. Then three volunteers delivered them to the facility. We may not be able […]

AL of San Jose was excited to sponsor a special petting zoo that visited the Family Supportive Housing (FSH) shelter. The children were thrilled to be able to get up close and interact with a variety of animals. Although our volunteers couldn’t be there personally as in previous years, these pictures are sure to warm […]

Assistance League of San Jose continues to work with Family Supportive Housing (FSH) supplying Friday Night Dinners delivered to the shelter. This month volunteers contributed home-made burritos and cookies to Santa Clara County’s only family shelter. We are proud to help FSH, especially during these challenging times, in its mission to provide counseling support, food […]

We miss volunteering on site at CityTeam during COVID restrictions, but are thankful that we can still provide for San Jose’s residents with donations of toiletries and beautiful hand-made quilts to be distributed to people in need of food and supplies in low-income neighborhoods of San Jose.    

Lynda, a member of our Caring Hands program, is using her creativity to add some special touches to her hand-crocheted blankets and hats. She says, “I loved doing the Minnie Mouse because the blanket matches her dress and I added the bow at the top of the hat to replicate her bow on her head. […]

Members of our Caring Hands program have been busy creating gifts for new Moms and their little bundle of joys to receive when they leave Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. These colorful layettes await packaging and delivery to restock the cabinets of the maternity ward.  The nurses are then able to select the perfect layette.

Assistance League of San Jose’s Operations School Bell (OSB) program volunteers have been busy unloading, organizing and counting uniforms to be distributed to our San Jose public schools as the new school year begins.

Virtual hugs to our Hug-a-Bear volunteers who are busy bagging bears to be sent out to our community service providers.

Fifteen more layettes ready for Assistance League of San Jose to donate to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, one of the many things our Caring Hands volunteers are doing while staying home. Notice Bear is wearing his mask and has hand sanitizer nearby!

Due to COVID-19, AL of San Jose may no longer cook and serve meals at Family Supportive Housing. But to continue our mission of transforming the lives of children and adults through community programs our members are now baking cookies and delivering them to FSH to be handed out to the families. YUM

The AL of San Jose is eager to pursue our mission of transforming the lives of children and adults through community programs. However, we want to do that as safely as possible for our members and the people we serve. The League will be following the CDC and Santa Clara County guidelines and regulations as […]

AL of San Jose has received a grant of $7,500 from Believe in Reading for our Readers Are Leaders program. Believe in Reading supports the efforts of nonprofit organizations that teach, improve or encourage reading of people of all ages from around the world. We thank you for your generosity and your support of the […]

During the month of June, AL of San Jose was finally able to deliver completed layettes to Valley Medical Center!  A total of 867 gifts were dropped off for processing by the maternity ward nurses.  When our blankets are delivered, they are put in individual plastic bags and placed on a shelf (see photo) in […]