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New children’s book spreads the message of charity to the next generation
Participating Junior Leagues are eligible for 70 percent of proceeds Stunned by the U.S. Census Bureau statistic showing that in 2010 one in five U.S. children was living below the…
In case you missed it, Nov. 15th is National Philanthropy Day!
Junior Leaguers may not typically think of themselves as philanthropists, although what we do here meets Wikipedia’s etymological definition of the term as “the love of humanity” as well as…
And the winner is…the Junior League of Los Angeles!
Maybe it helps to be in LA, but the Junior League of Los Angeles has just been named the winner of a prestigious 2012 Women in Film PSA Production Award…
What do girls need to know about life?
You’ve seen it in the media. You’ve talked about it with other parents. And sometimes your own daughter will open up and talk about it. It goes by a lot…
What does Kids in the Kitchen have to do with Halloween?
Not much. KITK programs typically take place in the spring. Halloween, well, you know. KITK focuses on helping children make healthy choices about food and nutrition. Halloween, well, you know.…
“Read Across California” Resolution Becomes Law!
On September 6, 2011, Assembly Concurrent Resolution 62 (ACR 62) Read Across California was chaptered into law. This resolution was sponsored by the Junior League of Los Angeles and authored…
Bringing Diapers to Babies in Need
How high is a pile of 226,559 diapers? We don’t really know, but that’s how many disposable diapers 26 Junior Leagues collected in the first year of Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies® Every…
Are You Ready for the Holidays? (We Are.)
Junior Leagues have, for decades, created and run some amazing projects addressing big problems like childhood obesity, women’s health, illiteracy, alcoholism and foster care. So it’s ironic that many community…
Women, War & Peace. And You.
Those are big topics. And you are invited to participate. It’s a concrete demonstration of the collective power of the more than 155,000 members of The Junior League that the…
Human trafficking is a global problem
. . .that knows no borders. Today, around the world, there are more people held in slavery than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. The United Nations estimates…