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From the Junior League of Washington to White House Fellow
Air Force Major Ariel Grace Batungbacal (and Junior League of Washington member) was named to the prestigious White House Fellows program, which each year selects 15 people from thousands of applicants to spend a year working as full-time, paid Fellows to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries, and other top-ranking government officials.
Kashi partners with The League to promote healthy living
The Junior League’s Kids in the Kitchen program was chosen by Kashi, the premier natural food and lifestyle company, to be featured as a Kashi REAL Project™ partner on 1.8 million Cinnamon Harvest boxes. Kashi also provided $80,000 of funding for the Kids in the Kitchen program at the League level.
Heading up planning for the JFK anniversary in Dallas
Chosen in part because of her fund-raising abilities, Ruth Altshuler of the Junior League of Dallas has been tapped to plan the Texas City’s 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 2013. She has held many high profile positions as a member on the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board and the U.S. National…
The League’s history becomes available to researchers at Harvard
One hundred years of Junior League magazines are now domiciled at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
Reinventing the food pantry in Hartford
A collaborative project of the Junior League of Hartford; the Chrysalis Center, a Connecticut-based nonprofit healthcare agency; and Foodshare, a regional food bank, Freshplace is an innovative food pantry designed to tackle chronic hunger and related issues in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Hartford. The ultimate goal is to provide a new model for American food pantries.
2010s: A new decade brings opportunities for Leagues and their members
The Junior League is now one of the largest and most effective volunteer organizations in the world, with more than 155,000 members and 293 Leagues in four countries. But challenges remain in increasing the value of membership while finding new ways to create lasting community impact.