Causes: Community Service Clubs, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, Thrift Shops

Mission: Assistance League of the greater Portland area is a chapter of a national nonprofit organization that puts caring and commitment into action through community-based philanthropic programs.

Results: Since 1998,15,000 children living below the poverty line, in the Beaverton and Hillsboro Public School Districts have received new clothes.

Target demographics: Children living below the poverty level in Washington County attending school in the Beaverton and Hillsboro School Districts. Victims of assault in for seven area hospitals. Children leaving foster care in Multnomah and Washington County. Unaccompanied youth attending high school in the Beaverton School District

Direct beneficiaries per year: 2,940 children in need by providing new clothes, foster children by giving them Life Story Books, teen boys in residental rehabilitation with an enrichment program, and victims of rape with Assault Survivor Kits.

Geographic areas served: Greater Portland area

Programs: Operation School Bell