Community Needs

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Dec

Denver – Receives Daniels Fund Grant for Hospital Equipment Program

Assistance League of Denver is pleased to announce that it has received a $30,000 Daniels Fund grant to support its Hospital Equipment Lending Program. Assistance League of Denver is a nonprofit organization that has served children and adults in Denver and surrounding areas for more than 62 years. Assistance League of Denver members believe in […]

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Nov

the Columbia Pacific – Receives $2,000 Donation

Assistance League of the Columbia Pacific members were presented with a check for $2,000 from the Windermere Foundation at the organization’s Nov. 7 fall luncheon. The luncheon is an annual celebration of volunteer contributions to the organization’s philanthropic programs benefiting Clatsop County school children in need. Pictured, from left, are Pam Ackley of Windermere Realty […]

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Nov

Wichita – It Takes a Village to Make Gingerbread Houses

View the video. It takes a village to put on Gingerbread Village, a local gingerbread house-making event that draws thousands every year. It also takes 18,000 hand-cut graham crackers (sized for walls and a rooftop), 35 5-gallon buckets of icing and 1,836 pounds of candy and cereal, according to organizers. More than 200 volunteers are […]

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Nov

Long Beach – Opens New Children’s Center

The need was there. The money is here, and now the facility has opened. Assistance League of Long Beach has begun serving more of the city’s children at the new Miller Children’s Center with needed orthodontic care, new school uniforms and school supplies.  Assistance League has been doing both of those things for some time […]