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Published on 02/12/1996 All articles from this issue

Local group honored with distinguished philanthropic youth group award

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Town Crier Staff Report

The Stanford Hills Chapter of the National Charity League was honored recently for its "generous contributions and outstanding leadership to the philanthropic movement in Silicon Valley."

This local group was founded in 1985 as a chapter of the first Charity League which was founded in 1925 in Los Angeles.

At that time mothers and daughters performed Red Cross work for the needy that dates back to World War II. It has grown to more than 50 chapters throughout the United States.

The National Charity League is a non-profit national organization of mothers and daughters (grades 7 through 12) whose purpose is to initiate and promote charitable endeavors and nurture a strong mother-daughter relationship.

Members live in places from Half Moon Bay to Mountain View. One hundred and nine mother-daughter teams are members of the organization. Mothers and daughters spend a minimum of 15 to 30 hours a year, usually much more, in caring for the elderly, the homeless, the handicapped and retarded children, the hungry, and the environment on the Peninsula.

The group provides services for the following: Pilgrim Haven and Hidden Villa in Los Altos; Community Association for the Retarded (C.A.R), Community Services Agency, Soup Kitchen and Food Closet in Mountain View; the Ecumenical Hunger Program in East Palo Alto.

The Stanford chapter was recognized at the Silicon Valley awards celebration and luncheon in November at the San Jose Fairmont Hotel.

The annual luncheon is organized and presented by the national society of fund raising executives, Silicon Valley chapter, and shares in the spirit of national philanthropy day which is celebrated across the country and endorsed by Congress.