A Day Of Authors - April 30, 2022
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Thank you for visiting our website. We are ALPHA – the Professional Auxiliary of the Fullerton Assistance League. Fullerton is part of the National Assistance League which has over 22,000 members in 120 chapters nationwide focused on making our communities a better place to live. Our Fullerton Chapter supports the local communities of Fullerton, Brea, Placentia, Yorba Linda, La Habra and Buena Park.

We appreciate your continuing support of ALPHA while we are all working through the challenges of this pandemic. As things get back to normal, we have good news. Our annual A Day of Authors event will be in-person this year, scheduled for April 30, 2022. Registration will start January 31st, 2022.

We have finalized our authors for our event and know you will be as excited to hear them speak as we are to have them.

Laura Dave
Dubbed, NYT bestselling author, “a wry observer of modern love” by USA Today (morning keynote speaker)

Kate Quinn
NYT bestselling historical fiction author (afternoon speaker)

Walter Borneman
Military based non-fiction (breakout author)

Lee Hollis
Cozy mysteries (breakout author)

Jean Reagan
Children’s author (breakout author)

Christopher Reich
Fiction thrillers (breakout author

Rachel Howzell Hall
Mystery/thriller author (breakout author)

Steven Rowley
Contemporary fiction author (breakout author)

This will be our 29th year of holding our A Day of Authors event. We continue to attract authors of distinction. Our past authors include Elizabeth George, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Craig Johnson, Laura Lippman, Lisa See and many more. Click here to see full list.

ALPHA members both give back to our local communities and know how to have fun! We even have our own book club! We’d love to hear from you. Whether you are a supporter or would like to join us, please do not hesitate to communicate with us via email at alpha.fullerton@yahoo.com or on our Facebook pages at A Day of Authors or Alpha of Fullerton.

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Each spring for over 28 years, ALPHA has hosted “A Day of Authors,” where prominent authors inform and entertain more than 550 book lovers. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth ... ...more

About A Day of Authors

Each spring for over 28 years, ALPHA has hosted “A Day of Authors,” where prominent authors inform and entertain more than 550 book lovers. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth George, Carol Higgins Clark, Janet Fitch, Lisa See, Amy Ephron, T. Jefferson Parker and many others have spoken to “A Day of Authors” audiences.

Proceeds from this fundraising event benefit the following community groups: St. Jude Medical Center’s “Healthy Beginnings” with our Tiny Togs Program, providing needed layettes and diapers to needy newborns; Operation School Bell (a national program) providing clothes, backpacks and books for school children; Santa’s Closet, which supplies grocery store gift cards to low income families with children for the holidays and Special Families – Emergency Needs, which provides services and equipment to special needs children and their families.

About A Day of Authors

Our Communities are in Need and Together We Can Make a Difference! Assistance League Professional Humanitarian Auxiliary (ALPHA) is a nonprofit organization that positively impacts the communities of Fullerton, Brea, Buena Park, La Habra, ... ...more

What We Do

Our Communities are in Need and Together We Can Make a Difference!

Assistance League Professional Humanitarian Auxiliary (ALPHA) is a nonprofit organization that positively impacts the communities of Fullerton, Brea, Buena Park, La Habra, Placentia and Yorba Linda. ALPHA provides backpacks, books, and school clothing through Assistance League’s Operation School Bell©; scholarships to graduating seniors preparing to attend post-secondary schools; personal care kits and birthday gift books to low-income elementary school students; and baby clothes, layettes, diapers, blankets and preschool books in support of St. Jude Neighborhood Clinic.

Professional and Business Women Making a Difference.

ALPHA is comprised of professional or business women who wish to contribute to the community in a meaningful way. ALPHA volunteers commit to financially support and invest their time and varied talents in transforming lives through community programs that meet essential needs, especially those of children and youth. As essential needs are met, families are able to flourish.

Your Partnership Allows Us To Do More!

Financial support goes wholly towards providing less fortunate children, youth and adults in our communities with continued hope toward achieving a better quality of life even during such difficult times as these.

Donations are tax deductible.

ALPHA is a 501(c)(3) Corporation; Tax ID #95-6054959, and all contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law in your particular tax situation. If you are willing, in some way to financially support our efforts to make a difference in our communities, please make your check out to ALPHA and mail it to the above address, or you may give online.

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