Assistance League ACTION! Week

Kansas City – Assistance League fills 3,000 backpacks for Northland students

https://www.kmbc.com/article/assistance-league-fills-3000-backpacks-for-northland-students/35569389 The backpacks include hats, gloves and hygiene items. Thousands of young students in the Northland are staying warm thanks to a local organization. Volunteers with the Assistance League of Kansas City assembled 3,000 backpacks filled with warm clothes, hats, gloves and hygiene items. It's part of their Operation School Bell® program, which gives clothes [...]

Greater Wilmington – Assistance League awarded the 2020 AARP NC Coastal Inspiration Award

Assistance League of Greater Wilmington was awarded the 2020 AARP NC Coastal Inspiration Award for Intergenerational Education Trailblazer.  The AARP Inspiration Awards recognize people and organizations that have been working hard across the North Carolina Coastal Region to build better lives and communities.  The awardees are selected after a public nomination process and include Individual [...]

Charlotte – Assistance League hosted an ACTION! Week drive-through mobile pantry

Assistance League of Charlotte hosted an ACTION! Week drive-through mobile pantry at Tuckaseegee Elementary School. Enhanced COVID safety precautions with limited contact are allowing us to continue to sponsor and operate repeat mobile pantries at three high-need schools during the year. These are one-night events where families receive boxes of non-perishables, fresh produce, bread, meat [...]

Diablo Valley – Assistance League ACTION! Week Commemorates Anne Banning, Cofounder

"Sunshine comes in numerous forms" As Action Week for National Assistance League arrives on February 23, the name Anne Banning reappears at the forefront. She was known as the child of Los Angeles’s “power couple.” Rather than amass power, Ann Banning sought to empower those in the community who were vulnerable, initially victims of the [...]

Georgetown – Reading and More on Google Meet – Virtual Story Hours 

For almost 20 years, elementary school students in Jarrell have been reading to Assistance League of Georgetown Area volunteers during a special pull-out program called Reading and More.  Volunteers who have been trained with strategies to use for word identification and comprehension meet one-on-one with students during the school day to help them improve their [...]

Victor Valley – ACTION! Week

Assistance League of Victor Valley presented a Dr. Seuss skit to four local schools. The cast, Kathy Lendhart as Daisy Head Maisie, Patty Everly and Mary Noel as the Sneetches, Rosanne Smith as Cat in the Hat, Jerome Johnson as the voice of Mack the turtle and Cindy Johnson as Yertle Turtle.