Assistance League of Diablo Valley Welcomes Corporate Partner Fehr & Peers' Return.

Fehr & Peers employee volunteers, as seen in photo above, include (l to r) Lorna Angeles, Meghan Mitman, Judy Schaefer (Team Leader), Patrick Gilster, Ryan McClain, Mike Rodriguez, Teresa Peterson and Clara Wong. Jackson Lo is not pictured.

Since 1994, Operation School Bell®, Assistance League’s® nationally acclaimed philanthropic program, has provided clothing and shoes to local elementary schoolchildren to improve attendance, campus citizenship and academic performance. In 2014-2015 alone, Assistance League of Diablo Valley’s Operation School Bell served 4249 elementary schoolchildren in our community.

Since 2006, Assistance League of Diablo Valley has enjoyed a Corporate Partnerships component, where employee volunteers from local businesses and corporations become hands-on involved with and make financial contributions to several of our philanthropic programs.

On October 21, nine employee volunteers from Fehr & Peers, world known transportation specialists with an office located in Walnut Creek, made a return visit to Assistance League of Diablo Valley’s Annex to continue its mission of improving communities by supporting nonprofit organizations. President Veronica Gant prefaced the Operation School Bell bagging event with an update regarding the chapter’s ten hands-on programs’ purpose and impact.

In a mere two hour’s time, all involved had placed six pairs of socks, six pairs of underwear, a shoe gift card, a sweatshirt, two pairs of pants for the boys or one pair of pants and one skort (upon request) for the girls, and three white, collared shirts—all into large, reusable blue bags. Together, Assistance League of Diablo Valley and Fehr & Peers improved lives in the community by putting “Caring and Commitment into Action.”

To learn about Assistance League of Diablo Valley’s ten philanthropic programs and the recently awarded GuideStar Exchange gold participation level status, please visit this website: diablovalley.assistanceleague.org or the GuideStar Exchange. You may also access information on Corporate Partners, which is located on the upper left corner of the website.