Community Impact
This award-winning JLB project promotes literacy and storytelling in a picturesque setting nestled in the heart of Ross Park.
This woman founded the first Junior League in 1901 to work to improve child health, nutrition and literacy among immigrants living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Who is Mary Harriman?
The number of years a member must dedicate to the JLB in active service in order to qualify for Sustaining membership class.
What is 7?
This council acts as a conduit for all JLB projects.
What is the Community Council?
Where AJLI is headquartered.
What is New York City?
The JLB supported AJLI's focus on children in foster care when it established this secret community resource in 1983. It is still in service today.
What is The Children's Shelter?
This member is the only woman to have served two separate terms as JLB President.
Who is Andrea Hatzinger?
Special projects seeking up to this level of funding may submit projects directly to the board for approval without requiring a vote from the general membership.
What is $500?
Before they turned their focus on one major event each year, this committee was at one time responsible for directing all grant-writing and revenue generation for the JLB.
What is the Fundraising Committee?
AJLI has member organizations in the US, Canada, the UK, and this country.
What is Mexico?
This long-standing holiday tradition started on Court Street in downtown Binghamton from 1964 until 1968, when it moved to its permanent home supporting the Roberson Museum & Science Center.
What is The Christmas Tree Forest or Home for the Holidays?
Participation in the Junior League can be a step into a career of public service for some women. This sustaining member of the JLB holds a position on a prominent local town council.
Who is Shoba Agneshwar?
The number of job roles (not people) on the JLB Board of Directors.
What is 9?
The Membership Development Council is responsible for keeping up-to-date records on JLB members, including dues status, contact information, skills & interests, and this.
What is placement?
AJLI offers many member benefits, including a Junior League affinity credit card through this bank.
What is Chase?
In 1991, the JLB established this "homey" sounding program to provide volunteer advocates for children processed through Broome County's juvenile justice system.
What is the CASA progam (Court Appointed Special Advocates)?
This founding mother of the JLB was also the first recipient of the League's Eleanor LaRoche "Salute to Sustainers" award in 1995.
Who is Esther Watrous Couper?
What is a petition?
The Public Relations, Lampion, and Ray of Sunshine committees all report up to her.
Who is the Communications Council VP?
The first Junior League cookbook was published in 1940 by this League.
What is the Junior League of Augusta?
According to the JLB handbook, 14 former JLB projects are still in action today, under the direction of stand-alone community partners. This 1971 project encouraged voluntarism among retirees and lives on through Catholic Charities.
What is RSVP (the Retired Senior Volunteer Project)?
In JLB history, two women are tied for "most decorated member," having been recognized as s Past President and receiving the Watrous Bowl, the Eleanor LaRoche Salute to Sustainers, and Woman of Achievement (twice)! One is Nancy Hargrave, and this woman is the other.
Who is Jane McGovern?
Provisional, Active and Sustaining members, who will be residing temporarily in the area of another Junior League may be granted this status.
What is Inter-League?
If the JLB reactivated this dormant committee, they would be responsible for developing and tracking a three-to-five year strategic fundraising plan.
What is the Ways and Means Committee?
The number of Junior League members from across AJLI's network who serve on the AJLI Board of Directors.
What is 20?