History of Our Community Impact
The Junior League of Wilmington plays a major role in our community. Junior Leagues strive for maximum impact through the effective action of highly trained volunteers. Below is a listing of many of the Junior League of Wilmington's community impact projects over the years.
2010s
West End Neighborhood House
Ministry of Caring
Supporting Kidds
Best Buddies Delaware
Fraim Boys and Girls Club
Girls on the Run
Ronald McDonald House
Prestige Academy
Delaware Greenways
Girls on the Run
Ministry of Caring
Healthy Food for Healthy Kids
Wilmington PAL
Anna P. Mote Elementary School
2000s
Ronald McDonald House Playroom Redecorated and Supplied with Toys
Social Venture Partners, Delaware (SVPD)
Woodlawn Library
Delaware Coalition for Literacy
Heart of the Home Kitchen Tour
Knollwood Community Center
East Side Charter School
Grandparents United
Teachers Supply Closet
Literacy Volunteers of America
Baylor Women’s Correctional Institute
Kuumba Academy
Hilltop Lutheran Day Care Center
Ministry of Caring
Jefferson Street Childcare Center
AI Dupont Children’s Hospital Neonatal ICU
YMCA
West End Neighborhood House Lifeline’s Program
1990s
YWCA Project Self-Sufficiency
Adolescent Parent Advocates
ARC Adolescent Clinic
Child, Inc.
Community Legal Aid Society, Inc.
Supporting K.I.D.D.S.
West End Neighborhood House
Immunization Public Awareness Campaign
"Bridges for Play" JLW 75th Anniversary Playground Project
Multicultural Task Force
Delaware Women's Conference
Delaware Children's Museum
Read-Aloud Delaware
Ronald McDonald House (fundraising raffle at LPGA McDonald's Championship)
1980s
Rockwood Museum
"Sharing, Caring, Loving: Your Baby and You" Parenting manual
Wilmington Waterways
Parents Anonymous of Delaware, Inc.
Ashland Nature Center Discovery Room
Guardian Ad Litem
Public School Volunteers
Hospice newsletter, library and Speaker's Bureau
POST (Parents Organized for Support and Training)
Women's History Week
Child, Inc.
Waterfront Task Force, Wilmington Waterways (Waterfest Children's Corner)
Delaware Women's Conference
Alfred I. DuPont Auxiliary (& Red Balloon Gift Shop)
Poplar Street Greenspace
Bubbylonian Encounter
Delaware Children's Theatre
The Prevention Project
"Woman to Woman"
Wilmington Institute Public Library
Senior Citizens Health Care Booklet with the Wilmington Sr. Center
"We Care in Delaware" and the Ronald McDonald House
Women's Legislative Roundtable sponsor
Hallmark's Kaleidoscope creative art workshop
Franny Maguire testified before two subcommittees of U.S. Congress about foster care
Parents as Teachers pilot with Parent Early Education Center
Distribution of ChildSafe Tape by Video Matrix
Reportline
Selected Teen Outreach
Ronald McDonald House (fundraising raffle at LPGA McDonald's Championship)
Ad-Hoc Task Force on Homelessness
Read-Aloud Delaware
Delaware Children's Museum
1970s
PEG (Preventive Environmental for Girls, Inc.)
POST (Parents Organized for Support and Training)
Historic preservation brochure with Delaware Ethnic Studies and Culture, Inc.
Art to the Hospitals
DAPI advocacy committee
"Right to Read" School Volunteer tutor program
Willingtown Square
Wilmington Senior Center
CIP (Concern for Children in Placement)
Brandywine House (elderly congregate living facility)
"Permanency, Security and Love" (children's rights conference)
"For Our Children" brochure
"Mini Museums" from Metropolitan Museum of Art
CAN (Child Advocacy Newsletter)
Grand Opera House Victorian staircase (JLW 60th Anniversary)
"A Family Foundation: Today's Child, Tomorrow's Adult", a lecture series
"Foster Care Review Act"
1960s
Delaware Art Museum Children's Gallery
Fun Books
Historic Preservation Survey for Historical Society of Delaware
Delaware Nature Education Society and Ashland Nature Center
Child Diagnostic and Development Center of Delaware and Jefferson Pre-School
SERVE (Seniors Engaged in Regular Volunteer Efforts) at the
Wilmington Senior Center
DAPI (Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc.)
Theater Puppet Committee
Wilmington Senior Center
1950s
Child Guidance Center
Christmas Clearing House
Delaware Curative Workshop
Theater Puppet Committee
Radio & TV Committee produced series of children's programs
Wilmington Senior Center
Delaware Art Museum docent service
1940s
West End Neighborhood House
Children's Home
Delaware School for Deaf Children
U.S.O.
Women's Division War Finance Committee
Christmas Stocking Fund
Delaware Curative Workshop
1930s
Mayor's Committee for Relief during the Depression
Summer Food Relief
Children's Bureau
Delaware School for Deaf Children
West End Neighborhood House
Wilmington Society for the Fine Arts
Delaware Art Center
1920s
Well Baby Clinic and Health Center
Delaware School for Deaf Children
Italian Settlement (now West End Neighborhood House)
Children's Bureau
Theater Puppet Committee
Children's Play Committee
Girl's Industrial School
