Assistance League Thrift Shop

Teen School Bell has also been very busy clothing teens. Many Junior High and High school liaisons in Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Carpinteria have contacted our Committee saying that they have more needy students than ever. Teens are met at Ross to choose two complete outfits for school, including underwear and socks. Marcus Lopez, the Santa Barbara Junior High liaison came to our September meeting to talk about the impact poverty has had on his students, and how proud they are to come back to school after a Teen School Bell shopping trip. It was very moving to hear first-hand about the impact of our work.

Operation School Bell has been very busy now that schools have opened. Children with happy faces leave our School Bell shop with full backpacks including hygiene kits, toothbrushing kits, 3 tops, 3 bottoms, a hoodie, a package of underwear, a package of socks, sports bras (where appropriate), and 2 books of their choosing.
To date, Operation School Bell has clothed 296 students.

Halloween and Homecoming Pop-up Today! 9-1

Come by today for the big Halloween pop up sale at the Assistance League! Fabulous deals for wigs, masks, costumes as well as Home Coming dresses.

We are an all-volunteer non-profit and work hard at our Thrift Shop which brings in most of the funds needed to support our 14 philanthropies. However, we also have lots of fun and social activities which provides a great opportunity for our participating volunteers to get to know each other better. Just so you know, when we do socialize the cost of these activities comes from our own pockets. We don't use ALSB funds for these events.
This past Tuesday we visited our local Santa Barbara Maritime Museum at the Harbor. What a treat! Our tour guide was incredibly informative and knowledgeable about the history of our harbor, and all matters associated with it...past and present. Here are some great photos of our tour. Put this gorgeous local museum on your 'to do' list.

Fall has arrived at the ALSB Thrift Shop! Lots of beautiful decor, along with beautiful merchandise all throughout our beautiful shop. Hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 10-2, 1259 Veronica Springs Road.

Assistance League of Santa Barbara is having a "Pop-up" Sale. 1259 Veronica Spring Road, Santa Barbara. Be sure to come by.

Do you know? The Assistance League Thrift Shop has a great section of children's books, puzzles, and learning toys. Be sure to stop by. Open Saturday 10-2. Closed Labor Day, September 5th. Open Wednesdays and generally Mondays 10-2. 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara.

The Assistance League Thrift Shop has fabulous children's clothes, toys, and games, along with lots of great merchandise. We are stocked to the hills and can't wait for you to come and shop. We're open Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 10-2. The shop will be closed on Labor Day. 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara.

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Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent Nomination Period: From June 9 – July 6, you will determine who deserves to be a nominee for each category

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent Nomination Period: From June 9 – July 6, you will determine who deserves to be a nominee for each category

Hello ALSB Thrift Shoppers. Just a reminder that we will be closed on Labor Day. Be sure to stop by the Shop this coming week. Lots of gorgeous merchandise! 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara. Open Monday, Wednesday & Saturday 10-2. See you soon.

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent Nomination Period: From June 9 – July 6, you will determine who deserves to be a nominee for each category

Hello ALSB Thriftstore Shoppers. A reminder that we are open for you, Wednesday, Saturday, and Monday 10-2. Our entire Shop is loaded with beautiful merchandise. 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara. Don't forget to vote for us at the Independent Best of Santa Barbara contest. We'd love to be your favorite Thrift Store, but we can't win without your vote! https://www.independent.com/best-of-santa-barbara-2022-faq-for-businesses/

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent

Hello ALSB Thrift Shop fans. Please vote for our Thrift Shop in the Santa Barbara Independent "Best of Best". Here is a link: https://www.independent.com/bestof2022/#//

Best of Santa Barbara® 2022 Readers' Poll - The Santa Barbara Independent Nomination Period: From June 9 – July 6, you will determine who deserves to be a nominee for each category

HELLO Santa Barbara ALSB thrift Shop fans! Monday, August 15th at 9 am, our Thrift Shop will reopen. The facilities have had their big annual cleaning, shelves are stocked with wonderful merchandise, and our volunteers are ready to help you find your treasures. Restocking will be done as needed until close at 2 pm. Our regular open days are Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 10-2. 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara. We're excited to see you!

Hello Santa Barbara......this is Just a heads up on our Closure.....
We are closed for annual cleaning and fixing everything in our Thrift Shop. Our receiving is open one more day for donations, August 8, and then will close receiving for 2 days until our reopening day.
We will have our GRAND reopening on August 15th at 9:00 am (early one day only). It will be an exciting and busy day, we hope to see you there.

Hello Shoppers of the Assistance League Santa Barbara Thrift Store. All yellow and orange ticket items are now half price, along with other sales happening in the Shop. We are located at 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara, open Monday, Wednesday and Saturday 10-2. The Shop will be closed from August 1 through 15. The entire Shop will be cleaned and scrubbed and new (to us) merchandise put on the shelves. Take advantage of our sales this week!

BEAR HUGS: This wonderful Assistance League of Santa Barbara program provides teddy bears to comfort injured and traumatized children and convalescing adults. The Bear Hugs committee met last week to get the Bears dressed and ready for delivery. The Thrift Shop located at 1259 Veronica Spring Road is the local chapter's primary source of income. Come shop in our beautiful Thrift Shop, you will love our merchandise and help our many local philanthropic programs.

Hello fans of Assistance League Santa Barbara. Hope you all had a Happy July 4th, celebrating the founding of our beautiful country. The Shop is open, shelves restocked and we are looking forward to Fiesta! 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara. Open Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 10-2 for shopping and donations. As a gentle reminder please bring us your "gently" used items. We cannot sell any item that is torn, broken, worn, and at the end of its useful life. If it needs to be trashed, please use your trash and recycle receptacles. As a non-profit, it costs a lot of our $$$ to pay for trash pick-up. Thank you to our Shoppers and Donors for your support. Here are some great photos.

Assistance League Thrift Shop updated their business hours.

Assistance League Thrift Shop updated their business hours.

Hello, Fans of the Assistance League of Santa Barbara! One of our favorite summer philanthropies, called "Fun in the Sun" was initiated this past Saturday. ALSB supports United Way's summer enrichment program for elementary and junior high children by clothing participants and funding part of the summer swim program. As a reminder, the ALSB Thrift Shop at 1259 Veronica Springs Road (open Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday 10-2), is the major source of income to support our philanthropies. Please be sure to bring us your gently-used donations for resale in the Thrift Shop. Here are some photos of the kids coming to our Fun in the Sun facilities, located next to the Thrift Shop.

The Assistance League of Santa Barbara had its first membership business meeting of the new fiscal year, with newly installed leadership. It was fabulous to have so many members attend the in-person meeting. Presentations were made about the fiscal health of the SB Chapter, along with reports on the many philanthropic services provided by the Chapter. Much success and creativity were displayed along with a demonstration by Las Aletas' 'Kids On The Block' puppet and puppeteer. Las Aletas is getting ready for their summer program, 'Safety Town'.
The membership count is as follows: 301 active members, 145 sustainers, and 19 new members along with the membership of Las Aletas and Assisteens. The 'Fun In The Sun' program co-partnered with United Way is ready to begin. A summer enrichment program for elementary children. Friendship Luncheon chair reported that the 'Friendship' program donated $3,000 towards a garden and butterfly preserve for the Montecito Senior Center. 'School Bell' will begin getting organized in mid-July. This program dresses elementary children in new clothing for the coming school year. Prom Dress just completed loaning gorgeous prom dresses to local high school girls attending their HS Prom. 'VIP Luncheon' just completed honoring middle school students who have demonstrated very improved performance in grades, citizenship, attendance, or attitude.
The meeting ended with a fabulous lunch, provided by The Lunch Committee!
Busy, Busy, busy "improving lives of residents in Santa Barbara County by providing financial, educational and societal support to children and adults in need"
The ALSB Thrift Shop is the major source of income for these philanthropies.

Be sure to stop by our beautiful display at the Goleta Library. A beautiful presentation of the philanthropies serviced by the Assistance League of Santa Barbara.

Your FB Manager and Photographer happed by the Las Aletas Committee of 'Kids On The Block' practicing with their puppets. How fun...I had to stop by and take a photo to share with you. Kids On The Block performs educational programs with puppets which enlighten and encourage discussion on children's social issues faced daily. 2150 children in Goleta classrooms and Safety Town. For more information on our Auxiliary, Las Aletas (Little Wings), you can find more information on our website: AssistanceLeaguesb.org

Summer has arrived at the Assistance League of Santa Barbara Thrift Shop located at 1259 Veronica Springs Road, SB. Lots of summer clothes for women, men and kids. Toys, books for adults and kids, puzzles, kitchen items, small appliances, knick knacks, jewelry, dishes both special and every day. Shoes for men, women and children and more. Here are some great photos. Come see us Wednesday, Saturday and Monday 10-2. Big thank you to our donors of gently used goods for our shop. Our Shop is entirely staffed by Assistance League volunteers.
90% of our funds for our 14 local philantophies is provided by our Thrift Shop.
For more information about ALSB, visit our website: assistanceleaguesb.org

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The Santa Barbara Assistance League has a fabulous group of ladies who play the ukulele. They are called The Lulus, headed up by Ethel Martin and Mary Jane Cooper. The Lulus entertain at community events and retirement homes. Here is a recent photo of our wonderful Lulus getting ready to entertain the residents of Hillside House.

The Santa Barbara Assistance League has a fabulous group of ladies who play the ukulele. They are called The Lulus, headed up by Ethel Martin and Mary Jane Cooper. The Lulus entertain at community events and retirement homes. Here is a recent photo of our wonderful Lulus getting ready to entertain the residents of Hillside House.

Hello ALSB Thrift Shoppers! REMINDER: The Shop in Santa Barbara will be closed on Monday, May 30th in honor of Memorial Day. Today, Wednesday, May 25 and Saturday May 28 we will be open as usual from 10-2. Please be aware that donation acceptance will close at 1:30 to allow our volunteers to finish up for the day. Please never leave donations in front of the door when the Shop is closed, as it attracts critters and vagrants. Here are some photos of Shop Merchandise. All yellow tags are half price.

Yesterday was our Chapter's (ALSB) annual Installation Luncheon, held at the Elks Lodge. It was wonderful to see all of our volunteer members gathered in person. Our Sisters, The Las Aletas Chapter joined us, we are so happy to have them. A wonderful group of women. We thanked outgoing President Martha Rogers and her Board for an outstanding year (albeit a difficult one). Each of our committees had to improvise creatively to continue serving our 14 philanthropies, and they did. The review of each of our philanthropies by way of a slide show proved amazing success. The ADA Award was presented to Mary Ann Gherini. This annual award is given to the person, working behind the scenes, who has made a big difference to our Chapter. Mary Ann brought her amazing talent to our Thrift Shop by organizing each section of the Shop and staging a new theme throughout the Shop each month. She has turned our Thrift Shop into a gorgeous Boutique. The Class of Fireflies were officially inducted as full-fledged members and the new class called the Rambling Roses was introduced. A large class of wonderful volunteers to join us. They will spend the year learning about each of our philanthropies and how our beautiful Thrift Shop works as 90+% of our funds come from the Shop. The Daisies paraded in with a (cardboard) car, 'Driving Miss Daisy" containing our new President, Sue Kremser. Quite a presentation! The new Board was introduced along with Sue. It looks like we have a great new leadership team to guide our Chapter through the next year. All volunteers have received their assignments and we are all ready to begin a new year with enthusiasm for our wonderful organization, "Caring and Commitment in Action"

REMINDER: The ALSB (Santa Barbara) Thrift Shop will be closed tomorrow, May 9th for shopping and donations. Our Chapter members will be at our annual Installation lunch, where we will be formally introduced to our new leadership and new members. See you all on Wednesday 10-2 for the shop and 10-1:30 for donations.

PROM BOUTIQUE REMINDER: Wednesday May 4, and Saturday May 7th are the last two days for access to the ALSB Prom Boutique located at 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara. All local girls attending their Prom are invited to BORROW a beautiful dress FREE. Just bring you School ID.

Hello ALSB Thrift Store Shoppers! Mother's Day gifts are on display in our beautiful Boutique Shop. Spring clothes have arrived. An entire rack of white jeans in the Corner Shop! Be sure to stop by 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday 10-2. Our donation acceptance desk closes on those days at 1:30. PLEASE BE AWARE, THE SHOP WILL BE CLOSED on Monday, May 9th as our Chapter will be attending our Annual Installation luncheon, where the new Board along with new Members will be installed.

The ALSB Prom Boutique is still open for local girls attending their High School Prom to come and shop for a beautiful dress for FREE! We have over 500 dresses, all styles and sizes. Just bring your HS ID. 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara.

Hello Shoppers, Mother's Day has arrived at the Shop! Beautiful gifts, cards and clothing have been stocked on the shelves. Be sure to stop by Saturday, Monday and Wednesday 10-2, 1259 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara.