The Junior League of Austin recently launched a new signature program called KICS: Kids in Cool Shoes. The pilot kicked off with JLA volunteers visiting Guerrero-Thompson Elementary and giving new shoes to over 600 students.
Congrats to The Junior League of Austin on the success of the Community Impact Center Groundbreaking Celebration on Thursday, January 18, 2018!
The Junior League of Austin is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
The Junior League of Austin sponsors FIT – Food In Tummies: To educate children, parents and the community in order to promote nutritional health and maximize student potential.
Our biggest fundraiser of the year will be held November 14-18, 2018 at Palmer Events Center. Thank you to all our donors, attendees and merchants who helped make A Christmas Affair 2017 a success for our community.
On December 9, 2017, The Junior League of Austin held the 31st annual Coats for Kids Distribution Day. Together with our longstanding partners —Jack Brown Cleaners, KVET, and KVUE — the JLA provided more than 35,000 warm winter coats to Central Texas children in need. As families arrived on Distribution Day, bilingual volunteers greeted them…
The Junior League of Austin’s Mad Hatter’s Bunny Brunch was a hopping success! The morning at The University of Texas Golf Club was complete with the Easter Bunny, an egg hunt, live entertainment, petting zoo, face painting, balloon animals, and cotton candy. The Junior League of Austin would like to thank our sponsors for making Bunny Brunch…
The Junior League of Austin hosted its 2nd annual Austin Entertains event Thursday, February 24 at Fair Market. The sold out event had an outstanding turnout of popular food and drink suppliers as well as a record number of attendees.
Done-In-A-Day is a series of concentrated projects that provide assistance to non-profit agencies by offering volunteers for community-based events on a short-term basis. Done-In-A-Day volunteers can help with events such as picnics, food bank distribution, holiday parties, egg hunts, 10K race water distribution, children’s shoe collection and delivery, and more.
The Community Impact Center, located on Bluffstone Cove in northwest Austin, will serve as a central hub to convene our membership and the community for civic engagement activities and special events. We envision the Community Impact Center as a place where our members can come together in partnership with the community, united by a resolve…
Our FIT program provides approximately 1,500 children healthy food options for the weekends during the school year on a weekly basis. Click here to learn more about the FIT Program or to make a donation.
The Junior League of Austin recently won the Distinguished Partnership Award at the Del Valle ISD Education Partners Awards banquet for our support of @DVISD schools through our FIT- Food In Tummies and Coats for Kids programs. JLA representatives Rachel Zander, Rachel Pry, and Rachel Plymire were there to accept the award.
The Junior League of Austin recently launched a new signature program called KICS: Kids in Cool Shoes. JLA kicked off the pilot program at Guerrero-Thompson Elementary in the Rundberg neighborhood. A team of JLA volunteers visited the school in advance and measure the feet of over 600 students for shoes. Last week they…
We had 8 of our volunteers out in the community helping with FriendFest, a family celebration of friendship, with Creative Action to support arts-based youth development programs in our community.
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