West of Metro

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're already into the 3rd year of our award-winning* Tea for Teens project in Etobicoke ( supporting 3 groups in Etobicoke and one in Oakville) !

*APRIL 2007- Junior League of Toronto (JLT)
wins National Award!

TALBOTS Canada recognizes JLT for its
Tea for Teens* program.

The Junior League of Toronto (JLT), has won the 2007 Talbots Canada Community Action Award, in conjunction with CFJL, for our Tea for Teens program. The JLT was recognized for this achievement in a recent April award ceremony in Boston, Mass.
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How you've helped us "build better communities"
this holiday season ....
Tea for Teens

JLT members - left to right: Cheryl Charles, Barbara Dodds with Kathy Jaques, Event Chair
Thanks to our Junior League of Toronto volunteers!

held on Wednesday, November 28th
... another GREAT success!


*Tea for Teens collects holiday gifts for teenagers in need in west GTA.
with your generosity...

Tea for Teens raised
over $16,000 in gifts/certificates
for the benefit of 300 teens!

... a fantastic 52% increase over last year's Tea!
Kathy Jaques, Event Chair, greets our Tea for Teens community partners
- recipients of this year's gifts
 


Thank you for ...the generous support of the Junior League of Toronto. You are playing a meaningful part in our work to end homelessness for youth, one person at a time, one step at a time.

Judy Leroux, of Youth Without Shelter

 

We will save the gifts we receive from this year's Tea for Teens for our girls' Christmas morning, because they will be the only gifts that many of them receive, and this way, they will have something to open.

Johanna Bak, of Pelletier Homes for Youth
(group homes for young women referred by the courts)
Our Tea for Teens project is benefiting teens in crisis by providing them with hope and holiday gifts. This year's Tea for Teens provided gifts for the over 300 teens at several west end shelters, including Women's Habitat (a shelter for women and their families), Oakville Community Youth Home, Youth Without Shelter, Pelletier Homes and Interim Place


Women's Habitat would like to thank the Junior League of Toronto for its continued support and remembering the teenagers - often forgotten about during the holidays.

excerpt from recent publication of Women's Habitat of Etobicoke newsletter
 

 
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JLT members painting bowls at Crack Pot ceramic store...
the bowls were used for Home Suite Hope's Empty Bowls fundraiser on October 21st, raising funds for the homeless in Oakville.

 

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