Philanthropic
Program


Operation
School Bell
®

 

Many Minds, One Heart

 


Operation School Bell
Forms for Principals


Contact Info

6220 East Spring Street
Long Beach, CA 90815
(562) 627-5650
  (562) 627-5645 (fax)

Website:  www.ALLB.org/osb.htm

E-mail from
Elementary Schools
OSBelem@ALLB.org

E-mail from
Middle/High Schools
OSBms@ALLB.org

Map to Office
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Operation School Bell provides free school uniforms to elementary, middle and high school students in need.  The 2012-2013 goal is to clothe 8,400 students.  The goal is to eventually clothe 10,000 students each year.

Operation School Bell gets a Head Start

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Shannon Cofell, Rick Rackers Chairman, along with her Rick Rackers team and a number of Corporate Partner volunteers, packed and distributed more than 1,400 backpacks with new school uniforms for kindergarten bound Head Start Children in June.  Operation School Bell’s goal is to clothe 8,400 children during the 2013 school year.  Assistance League of Long Beach members measured children at six middle schools during their 6th grade orientation during the last week in August.

 

Shop with a Cop

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(Left photo):  Rick Rackers Auxiliary along with Assistance League of Long Beach participated in Shop With A Cop as one of the sponsoring partners along with the Long Beach Police Foundation, Long Beach Junior Chamber, and TARGET in Signal Hill. From left to right:  Kathy Wade (Assistance League of Long Beach), Pam Karam (Rick Rackers), Tyler Simons (Long Beach Junior Chamber), Linda Drummond and Kathy Lingle (Assistance League of Long Beach), Tony Gales (Long Beach Junior Chamber), Jodee Collier (TARGET), Kathy Berry (Long Beach Police Foundation) and Jim McDonnell, City of Long Beach Police Chief.

(Right photo):  Sophia G., a pleased Shop With a Cop program recipient with Shannon Cofell, Rick Rackers Chairman, and Police Officer Juan Carlos Reyes.

 

Operation School Bell Corporate Partners

 

Some of our Corporate Partner volunteers

Volunteers help bag clothes, donate backpacks, and distribute clothes and backpacks for Operation School Bell.
 

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 UPS
Keesal, Young & Logan
Summer Interns
OSB_KYL Summer Interns 2012
OSB_Wells Fargo Advisors (Long Beach)   Wells Fargo Advisors - Long Beach

Pediatric Dental Specialists

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OSB_Paramount Petroleum

  Paramount Petroleum

 

UPS Presentation to
Assistance League of Long Beach

OSB_UPS Presentation to ALLB

Corporate Partner
United Parcel Service (UPS)

Corporate Partner friends from UPS presented Assistance League
of Long Beach with a $10,750 check in support of Operation School Bell.
Left to right: Kathy Wade (President), Stephanie Siemer (Operation School Bell),
Carol Crawford, Betty Burghard, and Homayoun Kandari (UPS friends),
Pam Karam (Operation School Bell) and Shannon Cofell (Rick Rackers
Auxiliary Chairman).  Thank you UPS!

 

TABC 40th Anniversary Celebration

OSB_TABC Presentation at TABC 40th Anniversary

Corporate Partner
Toyota Auto Body Company (TABC)

Jim Zehmer, General Manager of the Administrative Division of TABC,
surprised Kathy Wade, President of Assistance League of Long Beach,
with a $5,000 check in support of Operation School Bell
at their recent 40th Anniversary Dinner.

 

Operation School Bell and Long Beach Unified School District

Dress for Success in School

 

"[W]e attribute much of our nationally recognized success regarding school uniforms to the Assistance League, which has clothed thousands of school children whose families cannot afford to buy uniforms.  We need and deeply appreciate the Assistance League’s continued and expanded support."
 
   
Christopher Steinhauser
Superintendent
Long Beach Unified School District
 
 



Letter from Appreciative Student

One of the many young students that Operation School Bell supports wrote this letter of appreciation.

 



 

 

Click to enlarge letter

 

Operation School Bell Forms

To download the following forms

  • In Internet Explorer, right-click Word or PDF download button, click "Save Target As", (optionally select where you want to save the logo), then click SAVE button.
     
  • In Firefox or Chrome, right-click Word or PDF download button, click "Save Link As", (optionally select where you want to save the logo), then click SAVE button.
     
  • In Safari, right-click Word or PDF download button, click "Download Linked File", click SAVE button, (optionally select where you want to save the logo), then click SAVE button.
  Forms

Download

 
  Clothing Dates Word, PDF  
  2 - Procedures for Schools Word, PDF  
  3 - School Coordinator Word, PDF  
  4 - School Request for Service Word, PDF  
  7 - Parent Authorization Letter 2012 Word, PDF  
7 - Parent Authorization Letter 2012 - in Spanish Word, PDF
  8 - Uniform Exchange Request Form Word, PDF  
       

Get Involved!

To help Long Beach students dress for success in school,

  • Individuals:  Make a donation to Assistance League of Long Beach either by mail or online, or call our office to help.

  • Businesses:  Call Assistance League of Long Beach office to participate in our Corporate Partnerships program.
     

 


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Operation School Bell workers
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Julie and Randy Wilson
Operation School Bell Supporters

 

 

 


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