One hundred charities! They ranged from arts groups, literacy organizations and hospitals to libraries, schools and historic museums. Oh, and there are so many more. Here's a few I'd like you to know about.
Child SHARE on Glenoaks Boulevard recruits, finds and trains foster families. It found homes for 1,000 children in 1,000 days. It has a rate of successful adoptions that is double the national average.
Homenetmen on San Fernando Road provides a scouting-type experience to local youth, mainly of Armenian heritage. It's a 28-year-old organization that concentrates on teaching cultural heritage. But its outreach included sponsoring a community-wide athletic event this past year that brought together 500 local children of all national origins to Glendale High School for volleyball, basketball, soccer, tennis, table tennis, swimming and chess competition.
The Assistance League of Glendale on Harvard Street is a 70-year-old charity that sponsors Project School Bell, annually outfitting 500 local low-income school children with shoes, pants, dresses, shirts, backpacks and supplies to begin their school year. But it also hosts as many as 70 local seniors at monthly luncheons, giving them a chance to get out and socialize, mix and mingle. Next door is their thrift shop — one of the best in town.
The Doctor's House is a unique treasure. A historical museum of Glendale from the earliest days of our founding, it is managed by the Glendale Historical Society. This ornate, two-story Victorian was moved from its roots on the corner of Wilson Avenue and Belmont Street to Brand Park in 1980. It is now decorated with hundreds of artifacts from the late 1800s that give any visitor a real taste of what it was like to live in our town when it was little more than dirt roads and orange groves.
