Historical 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/partners over the years.

JLW members discussed positive and negative messages from the media with Summit attendees.
Through 2019
- Young Women’s Empowerment Summit
- Erin’s Law Legislation
- JLW Women’s Leadership Summit
- Bayard House
- Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc.
- Wilmington Senior Center
- HEALTHY Hour Program
- West End Neighborhood House
2010s
- Delaware Adolescent Program
- Bayard House
- Wilmington Senior Center
- 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