COVID-19

Santa Barbara – Assistance League Finds Ways to Kick Covid-19 in the Patootie

Friendship Luncheon committee members baked and bagged 800 cookies for Food From the Heart.   Finds Ways to Kick Covid-19 in the Patootie The 350 dedicated members of the Assistance League of Santa Barbara, including its auxiliaries Las Aletas and Assisteens®, are not settling in armchairs during the Covid-19 Pandemic. They’ve managed to kick the […]

Kansas City – Senior Outreach

As part of Assistance League of Kansas City’s Senior Outreach Service program, members partnered with Northland Shepherd’s Center in Gladstone, MO to supply food to local senior citizens during the holiday season. Assistance League of Kansas City volunteers purchased and picked up food from ALDI Foods and assembled and distributed Blue Blizzard bags and White […]

Montgomery County – Assistance League Celebrates in 2020!

Celebrating together during the Christmas season has always been a big hit for Assistance League of Montgomery County.  Typically we meet at a restaurant and have a brunch/luncheon with entertainment, and few special presentations.  This year the Member Activity Committee along with the Membership Committee decided we would meet at the Thrift Shop, and involve […]

Temecula Valley – Assistance League continues reaching out to schoolchildren

Assistance League Temecula Valley members Mary Murphy, Dorcas Shaktman, Diana Elizondo and Michelle Stiles prepare bags of clothes for Operation School Bell recipients. Assistance League Temecula Valley volunteers rallied together during the coronavirus pandemic and found ways to reach out to the community with the help of local partners. The nonprofit group’s philanthropic programs committee […]

San Jose – How to form a Partnership

We all know the cliché “thirty years of work to become an overnight success”!  This cliché does not only apply to actors achieving stardom, but to those in nonprofits who work hard and steadily to form partnerships with a business or corporation.  Thus is the case with the partnership that Jerri Kazmierzcak, a member of […]

St. Louis – Assistance League Outreach: Driven by Compassion, Powered by Action

A highly resourceful group of 27 Assistance League members annually helps more than 1,100 St. Louisans deal with everything from food insecurity to homelessness. And with COVID 19 case numbers spiking in the St. Louis area, the need for Outreach Assistance League’s Outreach Program has grown—with the case load tripling in recent weeks. “Our program […]