Every year, Junior League of Toronto members contribute significant volunteer time and money to community projects. The League selects community-based projects and earmarks funds and a portion of its volunteer hours. Projects are developed and funded whereby they can be given to an appropriate community agency once the project has proven to be effective. Ongoing assistance may be provided by League members to help ensure sustainability of a needed community project.

Today, our volunteer energy is focused on projects & programs in the focus area of HEALTHY LIVING. We have projects running concurrently in the 3 areas of Metro Toronto, York Region and West of Metro.


1) Tiaras and Ties
We're in the 2nd year of our Tiaras and Ties project, enhancing teens' self esteem by removing social barriers and promoting inclusiveness among high school students, We provide York Region graduating high school students, in financial need, with formal attire so they can attend their graduation with pride.

2) Tea for Teens
Our Tea for Teens project is benefiting teens in crisis by providing them with hope and holiday gifts. The third annual Tea for Teens fundraising event will provide gifts for the over 100 teens at several west end shelters, including Women's Habitat (a shelter for women and their families), Oakville Community Youth Home, Youth Without Shelter, and Pelletier Homes. The Tea for Teens takes place in November each year.

3) NEW! JLT Kickstart for Health
In Toronto's downtown core, the Junior League of Toronto (JLT) is tackling the issue of childhood obesity and nutrition!

Our JLT Kickstart for Health program empowers teenage girls and their families to embrace healthy lifestyles by building confidence, developing new skills, and inspiring positive life choices. Developed by the Junior League of Toronto, JLT Kickstart for Health includes a series of workshops, events and a running program with the girls of St. Alban's Boys and Girls Club of Toronto. The JLT Kickstart for Health project includes the following five elements:
    1. Healthy Living workshops: providing adolescent girls in the St. Alban's Girls on the Move program the opportunity to develop and learn age-appropriate skills relating to cooking and nutrition
    2. Girls Just Want to Run...a 10K!: providing adolescent girls in the St. Alban's Sisterhood group the opportunity to train for and complete a 10 km run with our Junior League members
    3. Nutrition workshops for Moms: educating the mothers of these teens about nutrition and healthy food preparation
    4. JLT Healthy Living Cookbook for distribution to the participants in all of our workshop programs
    5. Speaker Series: arranging and sponsoring speakers to both educate and inspire these teens at our partner organization

To learn more about our exciting JLT Kickstart for Health initiatives, see photos of the events, and find out how you can get involved, check out our site at www.jltkickstart.com.


Done-In-A-Day's
DIAD's provide greater community involvement by making direct service opportunities available to the entire membership. They also increase awareness of the aims and activities of the JLT within the community. DIAD's are intensive one-day volunteer projects and may be organized and carried out by a Geographic Group or by the entire membership. Some DIAD's are new member projects.

Seed Grants*
The Junior League of Toronto allocates seed grant money to community groups to initiate innovative programmes which provide essential services to the community. The JLT's hope is that programmes which initially receive JLT seed funding will develop alternative funding sources so that they may continue indefinitely

Seed Grant Application

* The deadline for Seed Grant applications is December 31st, 2007. Your application must be filled out electronically and emailed to info@jlt.org with a signed hard copy mailed or faxed to the address below:

Attn: Ms Jennifer MacGregor
Community Action Director

Junior League of Toronto
539A Mount Pleasant Road
Toronto, ON M4S 2M5
Tel: (416) 485-4218
Fax: (416) 485-5949


YEARS
COMMUNITY PROJECT
1928 - 33 Hospital for Sick Children $15,000
1949 - 53 Cerebral Palsy Nursery and Clinic $58,000
1965 - 69 C.M. Hincks Treatment Centre $100,000
1969 - 72 Probation Assistants in the Provincial Court, Family Division $19,000
1970 - 73 Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Restoration $20,000
1974 - 77 Training & Prevention Programme at Dellcrest Children's Centre $51,300
1975 - 76 Craft Resource Centre $42,000
1975 - 76 Child Stimulation Programme for Victoria Day Care Services $14,450
1975 - 77 Transition House $20,000
1978 - 80 Delisle House $20,000
1978 - 80 Second Edition, "Toronto with Ease" Guide for Seniors and the Handicapped $27,000
1978 - 80 Parenting Research $10,200
1978 - 81 Planned Parenthood Education Outreach $19,340
1980 - 81 "Today for Tomorrow" - Follow-Up Conference $7,000
1980 - 82 Preventive Health Care for Seniors $25,525
1981 - 82 Survivor Support Programme $11,600
1981 - 88 New Directions - A Support Service for Displaced Homemakers $265,000
1983 - 85 Third Edition, "Toronto With Ease" Guide for Seniors and the Handicapped $30,000
1984 - 86 Palliative Care Project $74,500
1986 - 91 Eating Disorders Video $30,500
1988 - 92 Fourth Edition, "Toronto With Ease" $25,000
1992 - 95 Family Resource Centre at the Anne Johnston Health Station, $51,000
1996 - 97 seed grants to Metropolitan Toronto agencies $36,000
1997 - 98 breakfast program established for Brookdale Public School - Oakville
1998 - 00 Growing Together - early intervention program for St. Jamestown area children and their families $70,000
1999 - 00 Bake Sale - educational materials on learning disabilities (grades 4-6), York Region $20,000
2000 - 01 Princess Margaret Hospital $75,000
2000 - 02 Connecting Rainbows,York Region $10,000
2000 - 02 Rose Cherry's Home for Kids, Oakville $50,000
2005-2006

Pathways to Education, Toronto (Regent Park) $360,000 for the bursary program PLUS additional funds for the mentor and other projects