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Learn something new or contribute skills you already have, make new friends, and have fun!

As a member, you will enjoy the benefits and rewards of:

• Volunteering and serving within your own community
• Developing long-lasting friendships
• Using and developing special talents and leadership skills
• Knowing that your efforts can have a profound and lasting effect on others

We have a variety of programs and always need volunteers to help in our Thrift Shop, administration, technical assistance, packing kits, sorting donations, or working with the children in the Viva Pima! Kids program.

Membership is open to everyone. New Members may join at any time. There are three categories of membership:  Voting, Nonvoting, and Viva Pima! Teens. There is a one-time processing fee of $60 for Voting and Nonvoting members  and one-time processing fee of $40 for Teens payable upon applying for membership.  

Voting Members.  Voting members agree to the following:

• Attend member meetings in person or via Zoom if possible. At a minimum, at least two annual meetings shall be held: the Election Meeting in April and the Annual Meeting in May.
• Participate in and support the philanthropic programs and fundraising activities of the organization.

Voting members have the following rights:

• The right to vote in elections.
• The right to serve as a Director, or on the Leadership Team as a Department Lead or a Committee Chair.

Nonvoting Members.  Nonvoting members are encouraged to:

• Attend Member Meetings.
• Serve on committees.
• Participate in and support the philanthropic programs of the organization.

Nonvoting members may not vote or hold an elected office in the organization.

Viva Pima! Teen Members.  Teens are in grades 9 – 12. These members, with adult supervision, have opportunities to:

• Volunteer for community projects in Tucson.
• Conduct their own fundraisers to provide in-kind new fine arts and physical education supplies to Title I middle schools.
• Develop leadership skills by managing their activities through their own governing body.

How can you get started? Check us out by coming for a facility tour and see our members in action! To arrange a tour, contact Member Services at Memberservice@vivapima.org. 

We supply students in need in the greater Tucson area with basic toiletries and hygiene products.

Our community has many adolescents and young adult students who cannot afford to purchase such supplies, and their self-esteem and academic performance suffer as a result. We deliver the items to Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) elementary through high school pantries, and school representatives distribute them to students according to need. Future expansion of the program will help to ease the challenges of students who face ongoing economic pressures.

For more information about the financial status of Assistance League of Tucson, please visit GuideStar, a national database of nonprofit organizations. Our Federal Tax ID or EIN is 86-6057789.

Community Contributions

Viva Pima! Books provides classrooms with new, high-quality books, which encourages literacy and learning.  We currently work with schools that have insufficient resources to purchase and stock appropriate books that help students develop more advanced skills and concepts. 

This program also supplies books to Parents as Teachers, an early childhood support program that serves families from pregnancy until their children enter kindergarten. Additionally, Viva Pima! Books provides new books for each child who participates in our Viva Pima! Kids program.

School personnel are given a budget from Viva Pima! to shop there for age-appropriate, curriculum-applicable materials. They select materials to meet the specific needs of their students, including refugees, English Language Learners, emotionally challenged youth, and other diverse populations.

We drop ship paperback books to all Viva Pima! Kids.

Sometimes the donations we receive that do not sell well in our Thrift Shop or perhaps we receive an order for one of our programs that does not meet the standards we have set for our program inventory. If we cannot sell these items in our Thrift Shop, we find an organization that can use it.   One organization we work with is the Humane Society of Southern Arizona who will happily take towels and sheets with holes, ragged blankets or quilts to be used in their shelter.

“Without Viva Pima! (sic) donation, the animals wouldn’t have this soft bedding,” says Susie Jones, an Viva Pima! member who takes our contributions to the Humane Society.

For more information please contact our Thrift Shop at 520-326-8452, and let’s continue to help create a greener Tucson by reducing, reusing and recycling.