Provides over 800 backpacks with school supplies, as well as vision care, for children in need in the Santa Monica/Malibu School District and Los Angeles Unified School District. Emergency clothing is provided to schools as requested by school nurses and to Stuart House, a program of Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center for abused children.
This program provides a flexible, rapid-response strategy by which Assistance League of Santa Monica can respond to specific community needs that do not fit within currently existing programs and that can be addressed on a one-time-only basis.
Annually, approximately $100,000 in scholarships for college and trade school is awarded to students at Santa Monica and Olympic High Schools and through a partnership with the Santa Monica College Guardian Scholars Program for current and former foster youth.
This program serves needy children by providing scholarships to both day and sleep-over camps.
This new program arose out of the closing of the Thrift Shop for several years because of COVID. During the time we were closed, we donated unused merchandise from the shop to a number of local nonprofits and their clients. These donations became the basis for our ongoing Community Support Program.
