Assistance League Thrift Shop was awarded the Environmental Award of Excellence from the City of Lafayette. The award was in recognition of the Thrift Shop’s success in promoting reusing and repurposing clothing, books, housewares, and other items to keep them out of the waste stream.  The event occurred at the City Council Meeting, April 22.

Assistance League Diablo Valley was awarded the winner of the Partners in Educational Excellence Award at the 2024 Administrator of the Year Awards Dinner. Congratulations go out to all the Operation School Bell Programs, Clothing, Listen, R.E.A.D, Elementary Arts, Kids on the Block, and Sunshine Boxes.

Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose! Celebrate Earth Day during the week of April 23-27 — It’s “Repurpose Décor” week at the Thrift Shop. Come in to find selected home goods perfect for creative re-purposing! Create your own one-of-a-kind treasure. Imagine the possibilities!

Have you heard the news? Assistance League Thrift Shop has been named 2024 Best Thrift Shop in the East Bay! The East Bay Times recently released the results of its12th annual Readers’ Choice Award survey. Its goal is to highlight the best businesses in the region, according to readers and residents. It’s an honor when customers […]

We partner with Aspiranet one of California’s largest and most successful social services organizations.  Together we serve children and teens who have been removed from their homes due to family crisis. The young clients come to Aspiranet often wearing no shoes and only the clothes on their backs. Volunteers in our Receiving Center Backpacks program […]

Assistance League’s Sunshine Boxes program originated in 2019 as a way to help out students who come to school hungry on Mondays. Our volunteers purchase and assemble 500 boxes of shelf stable food items that are delivered each month to Pittsburg schools during the school year. Foods include canned fruit, chili, pasta, tuna and spaghetti, […]