Chapter News

Northern Virginia – Celebrating Our Success

About 50 members, friends, and guest speakers gathered recently for our Spring into Summer Luncheon, to celebrate another very successful year, to recognize members who had helped in achieving those successes, and to hear from a school we serve about the impact of our programs.  As an added bonus, we raffled off four lovely baskets reflecting [...]

Northern Virginia – Literacy for Kids

Assistance League of Northern Virginia is extremely grateful for the generous donation by Dr. Kamal Jajodia that allowed us to hold another book fair recently at a local elementary school.  This Literacy for Kids event, which we call “Build-a-Child’s Library,” provided a wide selection of new books on a variety of topics from which the [...]

North Coast – Received a Grant

The Assistance League of North Coast recently received a grant for $29,075 from The Carlsbad Charitable Foundation. Though the efforts of Angela Bear, the Chairperson of the Grant Committee with the support of Mona Ackerman, Resource Development, our request for funding was granted. These funds will be used to allow an additional 200 students in […]

San Jose – Spring Surprises

Many wonderful surprises surfaced this spring at Assistance League of San Jose.  Among them was the creation of a subgroup to the Marketing Committee.  It is basically called the Social Media Committee, but what it does surpasses anything basic! The Social Media committee has brought Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to the forefront of the chapter’s […]

Greater Placer – TEGNA Grant

Assistance League® of Greater Placer is pleased to announce it has received a $5,000 grant from the TEGNA Foundation.  

Greater San Diego – Develop Virtual Character-Building Lessons During the Pandemic

“Character Education belongs in all schools. This project has helped teachers like myself give our students an interactive way to learn what it means to be a good citizen during a time that we were struggling to make distant learning fun and engaging. My students look forward to seeing the familiar faces and doing the […]