JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC
130 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075 www.nyjl.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The NYJL embodies a positive force for change within the NYC communities it serves. The New York Junior League provides direct service, advocacy, and collaboration with approximately 2,800 trained volunteers and 56 community partner organizations.

The New York Junior League (NYJL) is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

Volunteer Training and Leadership Development programs for NYJL volunteers and New Yorkers emphasize philanthropic values, board governance skills, and current nonprofit and community issues. The NYJL builds on volunteers skills through hands-on workshop, expert panels, committee assignments and leadership positions that focus on timely community issues and practical skills for managing a nonprofit organization. NYJLs Leadership Development program prepares NYJL volunteers for current future leadership positions at the NYJL, at other nonprofit organizations, and in the community.

In 20192020, the NYJL served over 75,000 individuals through its community programs. Volunteers designed and led over 600 lessons, workshops, field trips, and support shifts through 23 programs with 30 long-standing community partners. The NYJL served an additional 26 community partners through 93 on-demand opportunities such as delivering meals, tutoring middle school students, sorting and bundling donations.During 20192020, the NYJL launched a social-emotional learning (SEL) framework for life skills, developed in partnership with NYJL community partners and designed for the needs of its clientele through a range of activities on a consistent, continuous, and reliable basis.

Line 4b Program Service Accomplishments Continued:In 20192020, the NYJL worked across several areas of community and training programming:Adult Education and Mentoring: Working with organizations like Covenant House and the Womens Prison Association, the NYJL supports clients, from young adults to seniors, as they transition out of foster care, homelessness, rehabilitation programs, or the criminal justice system to forge a path to independent living by delivering life skills workshops, covering topics such as financial literacy, job search skills, and healthy meal preparation on a budget. As clients face economic hardships and health challenges and recover from traumatic events, NYJL volunteers help connect clients to resources and provide companionship. Childrens Education: NYJL volunteers create programs and tools to enhance the socioemotional learning of children from under-resourced communities. Partnering with community-based organizations, such as Win and Union Settlement, NYJL volunteers work with children of all ages to inspire a sense of curiosity and investigation and to foster educational aspirations through hands-on science and art activities, reading workshops, career exploration, and leadership development. Child Health and Welfare programs work with children of all ages, as well as their families and caretakers, to demonstrate that challenging life circumstances provide opportunities to learn, grow, and persevere. Working with community partners like SCAN-Harbor and Good Shepherd Services, NYJL volunteers mentor children as they build healthy self-esteem and deeper self-awareness, develop positive relationships, and strengthen their physical and mental health. Culture and the Arts: Partnering with organizations such as the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, P.S. 64, and Boys & Girls Harbor, NYJL volunteers promote childrens self-expression through arts education, an often undervalued and underfunded area of the public education system. Youth attend live musical and theatrical performances, visit cultural institutions and museums, create visual artworks for exhibition at a year-end art show, and perform in well-known theatrical productions.City Impact: In response to community partners urgent requests for support, the NYJL mobilizes volunteers for immediate, short-term service that helps community partners carry out their missions and meet their clients immediate needs, including: tutoring students, delivering meals to homebound seniors, creating care packages for homeless women, or serving meals to guests struggling with food insecurity. Every year, the NYJL invests funds and volunteers time in restoring public parks and community spaces to create welcoming environments conducive to fitness, health, recreation, and socialization. NYJLs two signature projects--Community Impact Project and Playground Improvement Project--came to a halt in March 2020 due to the pandemic. Advocacy: The NYJL helps advocate for state and city policies impacting women, children, and families. The NYJL partners with Junior Leagues across New York state and local coalitions comprising community-based organizations and advocates. During 20192020, the NYJL continued following the progress of the Separation of Children Accountability Reporting Act through New York states legislature and focused on city initiatives addressing the 2020 Census and providing increased social supports to students living in transitional housing. Due to the rapid onset of COVID-19, the NYJL had to pause and adapt programs to comply with city and state health guidelines and convert programming to virtual platforms. Program activities and data collection were also suddenly disrupted. COVID-19 Response: Emergency Food Support: As food insecurity became even more acute during the onset of COVID-19 and the economic fallout, the NYJL supported the Urban Outreach Centers food pantry efforts by agreeing to supply appliances, shopping carts, pantry supplies, and food staples. NYJL volunteers continued to assist with meal distribution.Supplies for Basic Needs: The NYJL provided urgently needed supplies, including toiletries, clothing, linens, baby formula, bottles, and diapers to NYJL partners Covenant House and Win.School Supplies for Remote Learning: Children living in shelters were under tremendous constraints due to lack of access to technology and supplies. The NYJL provided:-128 backpacks with essential supplies so children could fully participate in summer learning and activities and be prepared for the new school year-Art supplies and at-home lessons for students to support art projectsProtective Equipment for Front Line Community Work: The NYJL purchased thousands of masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer for the NYC Parks Department to keep their staff safe as they work. Transition to Virtual Programming: During the spring 2020, the NYJL contacted all community partners to offer immediate assistance and discuss ways to adapt programming amid the evolving and unpredictable health and economic crisis. As community partners identified needs, the NYJL quickly pivoted to virtual platforms:-NYJLs Steps to Success took its job readiness workshops and networking nights online-The performing arts program held virtual workshops that culminated with a talent show for the youth-NYJL volunteers independently called over 200 homebound seniors at the Stanley Isaacs Center and organized virtual check-ins with seniors at the Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA).

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