Operation School Bell® Programs

Santa Barbara – Assistance League Helps Outfit Heath House

The Peoples Self Help Housing of Santa Barbara might have remodeled Heath House, but it took Assistance League of Santa Barbara to make a house a home.

Kansas City – Assisteens® Provide Meals for Local Food Pantry

Assisteens Kansas City volunteered their time this month by purchasing food and assembling 500 lunch bags for the middle and high school food pantries of Feed Northland Kids, a local organization which addresses the food insecurities of school-age children. What a great way for our teen volunteers to impact their peers!! Feed Northland Kids praised [...]

Northern Virginia – Assistance League Serves Toiletries to Title 1 Schools

This month, Assistance League of Northern Virginia responded to a request from one of the eleven Title 1 schools we serve for much-needed toiletries for its students and families. We bought more than 1200 items, bagged them into 220 hygiene kits, and delivered them to the school. Each bag contained a full-size shampoo, bar of [...]

Bend – Operation School Bell® is back in action

Operation School Bell, a program of the Assistance League of Bend, a 21 Cares for Kids partner, is providing vouchers for new clothes for 1,200 students this month, from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Reno-Sparks – Operation School Bell® Hard at Work To Purchase Clothing for Students

Noted author Vince Gowman said, "You cannot make children learn. You can only provide them the right conditions for learning to happen." Since its beginning, Operation School Bell® has diligently worked to do just that through building self-esteem in the children it serves. Although large shopping events did not take place this year, School Bell [...]

Northern Virginia – Assistance League ACTION!Week

Every year at the end of February, the 120 chapters of the Assistance League organization participate in ACTION!Week, an initiative to celebrate the birthday of founder Anne Banning by helping children to grow and know that others care about them. Each chapter devises its own plan to help children in need. For many years, our [...]