With fall well underway at the Junior Welfare League, we’re excited to share with you quite a few updates and news that we have happening here! Whether you’re an active supporter, current or former member, or have simply attended an event or gotten involved with us in the past, we invite you to take a peek at everything we’re working on!
A New Website Is Bringing Us All Together
We launched a new website late this summer–you can find recent news, events, scholarship applications, member forms, and programs all on the site. Check out the new site here. See bottom of this email for a special request for former members to help out capturing our history!
The JJWL is On The Move!
With projects ranging from stuffing backpacks to supporting the Greenlawn Centerport Historical Association to distributing race bibs and medals at the 9/11 Heroes Run at Huntington Harbor, our JJWL members are rolling up their sleeves and getting tons of hands-on experience in volunteering and philanthropy.
- Are you involved with a local non-profit or organization that might be a good fit for a JJWL project? JJWL Chair Gen Brady wants to hear from you! Email [email protected].
- Have a daughter in grades 6 to 12 that wants to get involved? Join the JJWL here
Holiday Charities Is Around The Corner!
We’re mere weeks from officially launching our annual Holiday Charities program, where we continue to provide more children every year with overflowing holiday gift packages based on their unique wishlists. Last year we supported over 600 children. Contact your favorite JWL member to get your sponsored children this year!
Backpacks for Success Was a Huge Success!
Our annual program provided over 200 children with new backpacks and supplies for back-to-school this year. Returning sponsors Hockey Helps provided our supplies and W Services Group provided our backpacks. Join us in thanking them for their support!
The Townwide Fund Awards $3,000 Grant to JWL to Support Charitable Children Fund
The JWL thanks the Townwide Fund of Huntington for its support funding our grant application for $3,000 to support Charitable Children. The Charitable Children Fund is an outgrowth of one of the League’s initial core programs, the Lift Fund. The Charitable Children Fund is a junior and more informal version of our Lift Fund but still provides necessary and immediate small-scale resources to a child or teen in time of need. Examples of fund requests range from a child needing money for new eyeglasses to a teenager needing support with co-pay costs for mental health treatments. Whatever the need, the JWL’s Charitable Children Fund is here to support our children, and the Townwide Fund has ensured this year our resources will go even further.
JWL Member Committees Are Open to New Support!
We’ve launched a new initiative to help connect JWL members with their interests. If you are a JWL member or interested in becoming one, you can now choose exactly what interests you at the League! Explore initiatives here and, if you’re a member (join here!), you can get involved in anything you want right away! Member Committee Interest Form Available Here!
Open Request: Share Your JWL History!
Were you a member of the League or did you get involved with past events and programs? We’re looking for your pictures and stories to add to the website! Send anything you have to [email protected] and we’ll get it on our site—our history is so important to our future.
Thank You!
2022 – 2024 Executive Board
- Andrea Boccard, President
- Liz Leeds, Secretary / VP of Membership
- Adria Dodge, VP of Lift Fund & Seasonal Charities
- Kathy Terry, Treasurer
- Corey Lein, VP of Public Relations