Program areas at Assistance League of Greater Wilmington
Operation school bell (osb)servies 44 schools in the tri-county (new hanover, brunswick, and pender counties) with clothing, backpacks, hygiene kits, school supplies, nurse supplies, awards to fund projects not covered by regular funding, books, snack packs, with a program partnering with nourish nc.
Links to learning is an award program for educators of new hanover, brunswick, and pender counties. The awards provide an opportunity to enhance and/or develop new and different approaches to teaching which will stimulate creative thought and existing cirruculum.
Operation scholar support provides scholarships to students at brunswick community college, cape fear community college, and university of north carolina at Wilmington.
Operation its in the bag provides items, donated to our thrift shop but not sold, to other philanthropic facilities and programs.
Operation teddy bear provides teddy bears to children receiving treatment at new hanover, brunswick and pender county hospitals and emergency rooms and to pender county fire and rescue for distribution as needed.
Operation seniors offers a variety of social activities in low-income senior facilities and a program serving for grandparents raising grandchildren in coordination with the ywca.
Operation secu family house maintains gardens, provides meals, and other goods and/or services as identified.
Slightly off-key stringalongs (soks) is a ukulele group of members who conduct sing-alongs for residents of assisted living and long-term care facilities and other community venues.
Operation tender loving care assists with community needs on a one-time of short-term basis.
Kids on the block (kotb) - puppet troupe performs for elementary school children in new hanover, brunswick, and pender counties, teaching life lessons about disability awareness, bullying, making friends, peer pressure, and hygiene. This program was inactive for the year ended may 31, 2023, but there was depreciation expense on the puppets. The puppets were donated to Assistance League chapter in las vegas.