JUNIOR LEAGUE OF CHARLOTTE INC
1332 Maryland Ave, Charlotte, NC 28209 www.jlcharlotte.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. is an Organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. The junior league welcomes all women who value our missions. We are committed to inclusive environments of diverse individuals, organizations and communities.

Trained volunteers that promote volunteerism, develop potential of women and improve the community.

Community Impact: The Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) commits volunteer and financial resources to community agencies and projects that focus on the most critical needs of the Charlotte community. Since June 1, 2018, the JLC has partnered with the community to ensure that all children are school ready by focusing on health and educational needs of children from birth to fifth grade in priority areas of Mecklenburg county. Alexander Youth Network: JLC volunteers serve as tutors, dinner buddies and special event volunteers to help support the Organization's goal of providing children and their families a full array of behavioral health-care services.Allegro Foundation: JLC volunteers serve students with disabilities and those at risk by combining movement instruction with educational and other expertise, to enhance children' quality of life.Baby Bundles: JLC volunteers prepare baby bundles of clothing, blankets, books, educational and development toys and other essential items for families in financial need in the Charlotte area, helping families get a positive start with their babies.Big Shot Saturdays: Started by the JLC over 20 years ago, this program partners with the Mecklenburg County Health Department, Atrium Health and Novant Health to provide convenient and accessible immunization clinics and a health fair for the residents of Mecklenburg County to ensure that children remain healthy and can stay in schools.Center for Community Transition: JLC provides monthly support dedicated to facilitating enrichment programming with youth and family client. The programming promotes youth and family bonding through literacy, stem, creative art, and health and wellness monthly initiatives.Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center: JLC volunteers bring the love of reading and literacy to children in Charlotte through event planning, reading to children in groups and classrooms and helping with reading reward parties and book delivery.Digi-Bridge: JLC volunteers support after-school robotics programs and steam Saturdays, working with students to develop building and programming skills by using science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics to instill a love of learning.Done in a Day: The JLC's signature done in a day committee plans and executes several projects throughout he year to assist community agencies with one or two day special events aimed to serve women and children in need. The team also provides trained volunteers to agencies with a one-time need.Give Kids a Smile: JLC volunteers assist in providing preventative dental health-care education and dental screenings to children in elementary schools and participate in the coordination of give kids a smile day to provide free dental care to children in the community with no other means of receiving treatment.Heart Math Tutoring: JLC volunteers help students develop a strong foundation in math and an enthusiasm for academics by serving as tutors.Kids in the Kitchen: JLC volunteers provide lessons and demonstrations related to preparation of healthy meals and snacks in partnership with local community organizations, chefs and nutritionists.Project 658: JLC volunteers help create meals for the families of after-school care students. Meals are prepared by volunteers and supervised by an on-site staff chef and distributed to families, subsequent to after-school care.Promising Pages: JLC volunteers prepare donated books for under-served children and help cultivate a lifelong love of reading. Volunteers also help pass out books at community outreach events and magic book party programs.Second Harvest Food Bank: JLC volunteers stuff backpacks with nutritious food and deliver backpacks of weekend food to students each week during the school year. Volunteers also assist a mobile food pantry with set-up and distribution of food to families.Advocacy and Public Awareness: JLC volunteers host community educational forums on issues relevant to the JLC school ready focus are.Mentor Program: The JLC mentor program connects two members committed to one another for the duration of a league year. The pair share time, skills and energy with one another while respecting, listening and imparting knowledge within the relationship. The JLC mentor program develops the potential of members for leadership, heightens the appreciation of diversity within the league, and builds lasting relationships.Leadership Development Institute: The JLC's leadership development institute (LD) is a year-long training program that educates, inspires, and connects JLC provisional, transfer, active and sustaining members through the study of eight core leadership values facilitated through interactive monthly workshops.Training and Development: The training and development committee develops, organizes, and implements monthly quality education, personal, and professional development, leadership, and membership training opportunities to strengthen members' leadership skills and enhance member satisfaction.Public Policy Institute: The public policy institute curriculum teaches participants advocacy skills on the local, state, and national levels. Attendees participate in a city council simulation and learn from city council members, state officials, and community leaders who share their experiences of advocating for change.New Member Training: New members are immersed in training from the beginning. They have a monthly small group meeting to learn about all the aspects of junior league. Through these meetings and meetings with the larger membership development group, new members receive information and reinforcement around effective voluntarism to participate over continued years of service. Training culminates in a new member capstone project with a focus in the community. Keynote speakers and subject-matter experts cover a range of topics.

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