About Us
Serving Our Community
2024 – 2025
As a chapter of Assistance League®, a national nonprofit 501(c) (3) corporation, we have been serving the Conejo Valley and surrounding area since 1995.
200 Chapter members, Assisteens® Auxiliary, and Community Volunteers
touched 8,759 lives through our programs that returned
$254,847 directly to the community through philanthropic programs
in our last fiscal year.
Reaching Out ~ Fulfilling Needs ~ Improving Lives
Assault Survivor Kits®
Survivor kits and hospital emergency necessities to 416 recipients
Eye Can See
Vision care to 83 adult recipients
Medical Support Services
Medical and dental supplies to 3,700 recipients
Scholarships
Mentoring and scholarship assistance to six (6) students
Share-A-Bear
Comforting CASEY bears to 576 recipients
Sharing the Warmth
Supplies for 89 unhoused recipients
Operation School Bell®
Emergency Clothing to 700 students
School Clothing to 2,022 students
Literacy for Learning (books, literacy volunteers to 944 students)
Vision care to 87 students
Financials and Strategic Plan
2025 – 2026
Board of Directors
2026 – 2027
Denise Landenberger
President
Maria Byer
VP Membership
Lori Coons
VP Resource Development
Maddy Sattler
VP Philanthropic Programs
Sue Cordonnier
Treasurer
Kori Mandel
Recording Secretary
Susan Van Zandt
Corresponding Secretary
Lynn Winer
Director of Marketing Communications
Kally McMurray-Fisher
Director of Education
Shirley Eichhorn
Director of Strategic Planning
Carolyn Hoyer
Assisteens® Coordinator
Advisory Council
2026 – 2027
Al Adam
Council member, past Mayor
Thousand Oaks City Council
Andrea Roschke
CPA
Singerlewak, LLP
Ana L. Alvarez, MS
Parent Outreach Coordinator
Conejo Valley Unified School District
Dena Jenson
Director
California Lutheran University
Center for Nonprofit Leadership
Marina Litvinsky
Adjunct Professor of Communication
California Lutheran University
1995 to present
Chronological Timeline
Key Highlights
July 20, 1995 – Granted Guild Status by National Board
July 20, 2000 – Granted Chapter Status by National Board
June 2012 – Opened our first Thrift Shop
May 2024 Purchased a building for Thrift Shop and Chapter
Programs
Operation School Bell®
1995 Back Packs
1998 Shoes and Socks
1999 Emergency Clothing
2001 School Clothing
2016 Vision for the Future
2024 Literacy for Learning
Other Programs
1997 Share-A-Bear
2003 Assault Survivor Kits®
2018 Eye Can see – adults
2021 Sharing the Warmth
2022 Medical Support Services
2022 Scholarships
Our First Thrift Shop
We opened our first Thrift Shop in June of 2012. We rented this 2,165 square foot space until we outgrew it and moved to a larger location in September 2015.
Our Second Thrift Shop
We leased our second location in August 2015 with about 3,800 square feet and moved to a busier location on Thousand Oaks Blvd. where there was more shopping.
Our Current Thrift Shop
We had been searching for a building to buy for our Thrift Shop and our chapter headquarters with meeting and storage space. We found it in the spring of 2024 and purchased our current location at 2860 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. with about 12,000 square feet. We opened our shop to the public on September 10, 2024.
