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Causes: Women, Womens Service Clubs
Mission: The junior league of springfield mo 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.
Programs: In 2016-2017, the junior league collaborated with 7 organizations to provide community service and volunteer opportunities for its members through done in a day projects. The projects focused on women and improving our community through effective collaboration with local non-profits. Projects this year included life skill education classes for women aging out of the foster care system, child abuse prevention education, interview preparation for college bound women, meal assistance for homeless youth, child care for families attending financial workshops, and assisting to encourage and heal at-risk children through the use of the arts.
the junior league of springfield invested thousands of volunteer hours developing the potential of women and training our volunteers to improve the community through effective action and leadership.
in 2016-2017, the junior league paid dues to the association of junior league international (ajli). The dues paid to ajli serve to support individual league's in their fulfillment of the junior league mission. The dues paid to ajli support specific initiatives and programming in three primary areas. These include: 1. Community and civic leadership development; 2. Promoting a shared junior league identity; and 3. Organizational development that includes league consultation and support that leagues can access through ajli.