Community Corner
Assistance League Again Lauds Broadway Plaza Corporate Partners
At thrift shop prices, why buy only one?
Established in 1978, Assistance League® Thrift Shop at the Way Side Inn, located at 3521 Golden Gate Way in Lafayette, is the primary fundraiser for Assistance League of Diablo Valley’s ten philanthropic programs. Since 2006, the organization has enjoyed a Corporate Partnerships component, where employee volunteers from local businesses and corporations become hands-on involved with our philanthropic mission.
In earlier years, the Broadway Plaza Corporate Partners volunteers had coordinated denim collection events at Broadway Plaza, which they not only donated to the Assistance League Way Side Inn Thrift Shop, but bundled, delivered, and displayed these garments in order to maximize sales. As important, the Broadway Plaza Corporate Partner volunteers have also participated in the nationally acclaimed Operation School Bell® clothing events. On more than one occasion, they reported to the chapter house annex in Walnut Creek, where they filled bags with clothing to be delivered to designated schools. And the corporate partnership continues…
On Monday, February 3, a team of Broadway Plaza Corporate Volunteers again returned to share their creative expertise in window display. Effortlessly, they selected and arranged donated handbags of all colors, sizes and textures into attractive groupings which they then placed in the thrift shop’s display windows, in preparation for the Classic Leather Handbags event scheduled for the following day. Other diligent Broadway Plaza corporate volunteers sorted inventory in the back room where they also attended to the business of “heavy lifting.”
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The longstanding corporate partnership that Assistance League of Diablo Valley values with Macerich-Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek has gone beyond “social responsibility.” It celebrates the pride of two civic-minded organizations who share a mission as they make a difference.
To learn more about Assistance League of Diablo Valley, its Corporate Partnership Program, and the Way Side Inn Thrift Shop, please visit this website: www.assistanceleague.org/diablovalley.
