Transforming Lives • Strengthening Community
MISSION
Assistance League volunteers transforming the lives of children and adults through community programs.
VISION
Essential needs are met in our community, and families flourish.
Assistance League volunteers transforming the lives of children and adults through community programs.
Essential needs are met in our community, and families flourish.
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to Our Community
People Impacted
in Our Community
Hours Volunteered
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ROCHESTER, Michigan (08/15/20) – The Blast Off 2 School event held August 15 brought more than some much-needed smiles to 360 local K-12 students. Each child received a red bag with their own personal choice of clothing by size and color, along with school supplies and other items.
Held at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Rochester Hills, the event was the result of a collaboration of Assistance League® of Southeastern Michigan, the Rochester Area Neighborhood House and Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital.
Parishioners from St. Paul Methodist Church made 715 face masks for the event. The Rochester High School boys tennis team assisted with stocking and loading of inventory for the event.
Assistance League provided a bag containing a new hoodie, socks, underwear, a long-sleeved T-shirt, a grade-appropriate book, a mask and a hygiene kit. Ascension Providence Rochester did school physicals. Neighborhood House provided a wide array of school supplies.
“It was such a well-organized event,” Assistance League President Ann Drake said in a statement. “As each car pulled into the lot, the parent and student stayed in their vehicle, and our volunteers handed out the red bags. What a wonderful day.”
The event was free for Neighborhood House clients and low-income families who live in Auburn Hills, Rochester, Rochester Hills, Oakland Township, Leonard and Lakeville.
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ROCHESTER, Michigan (05/26/20) – Creativity abounds within Assistance League® and a group of hard-working women developed a totally new fundraiser for our organization.
Under the leadership of Tiffani Wolf, Pat Quitter and Judy McWhirter, a Can/Bottle Drive was initiated May 26-27. People drove to our warehouse to drop off their returnables. The line of cars was constant from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The following day, members went to neighbors and picked up returnables to bring to the collection point. Thousands of cans and bottles were collected.
The challenge then became where to store them until they could be turned in for cash. Two large storage units were rented, and totally filled. With the help of members and husbands, the returnables were transferred to the storage units.
Later, they had to be sorted into large plastic bags and boxes.
Powers Distributing came to the rescue when they said the returnables could later be brought to their facility in Lake Orion. A final count had to be made before everything went to Powers. Each glass bottle was counted and put into some type of box. The cans had to be separated and put into huge plastic bags. The plastic bottles had to be separated by size and put into the plastic bags.
The group of women and several husbands worked in the heat to count, load and transport the bottles to Powers. Once we arrived, the trucks had to be unloaded. After three truckloads were delivered, we made just over $7,000. It turned out to be more work than anticipated, but our dedicated members and their husbands made sure that everything was completed, and now that money can be used to support our programs.
Thanks goes out to all of the members and spouses who did such a great job during this creative yet difficult fundraiser.
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ROCHESTER, Michigan (03/01/20) – Our Disney-Pixar pre-released screening of “ONWARD” on Sunday, March 1, was a big success.
This heartwarming, animated film was directed and co-written by Betty Zych’s son, Dan Scanlon. We are so grateful for Dan and his team at Pixar and Disney for helping us host this fabulous movie screening event. It was a very special day celebrating Betty and Dan’s love of family.
Our event was a complete success selling out both Emagine Rochester theaters with 310 guests. Our Silent Auction netted over $3,100 with the generous donations of movie memorabilia from PIXAR.
To top the day off, Dan presented us with an amazing gift from PIXAR of $10,000! The co-founder and chairman of Emagine Entertainment, Paul Glantz, presented us with his donation of $1,000 for our organization.
Finally, our talented chapter member, Tiffani Wolf, created a fabulous array of delicious desserts incorporating the characters of the movie into her food presentation. We want to thank our committee who helped organize this wonderful event and our membership for supporting this celebration of Betty and her two sons, Dan and Bill.
“ONWARD” opened to the public on March 6 and topped the box office sales earning $40 million! It currently remains in first place for moviegoers.
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