Becoming a Junior League of Atlanta Partner
The Junior League of Atlanta (JLA) invites all eligible agencies to submit an application for League partnership. Your agency must be a 501(c)(3) organization or a non-profit collaboration that provides League volunteers with meaningful, high quality volunteer opportunities, including diversity and flexibility in the times available for volunteer work. The Junior League of Atlanta looks for agency programs that will develop the potential of our women volunteers and empower them to promote positive community change in the areas of health, education and welfare of women and children. The Junior League of Atlanta looks for these programs to have a measurable impact on your agency and the population(s) you serve.
Our primary service area is the City of Atlanta; although Metropolitan Atlanta area is our secondary service area, provided these agencies also serve City of Atlanta citizens. The League runs on a fiscal year of June through May, and agency partnerships run during this same time period.
To learn about our partnership opportunities please read below or join us at our Annual Community Breakfast in May. Two representatives from each organization are invited to attend.
Community Breakfast is where representatives of non-profit agencies throughout Metro-Atlanta are invited to come to the Junior League of Atlanta Headquarters to hear about the ways we can partner together to enhance positive change in the community. The Junior League of Atlanta has available resources including a trained volunteer work force, facilities, programs, funding, and dedication to help turn the needs of local agencies into realities. If you are part of a local non-profit agency please come learn about our programs and focus areas so we can work together for positive change in the lives of women and children around Atlanta.
If your agency works within our focus area of health, education, or welfare of women or children and would like to be invited to our next Community Breakfast (May 2011), click here to give us your contact details.
There are a variety of ways the Junior League of Atlanta may partner with an agency:
- Volunteers Only – The JLA provides trained volunteers to support agency programs, and volunteers each complete 50 hours of community service.
- Volunteers and Funding – The JLA provides trained volunteers and funding to support agency programs, and volunteers each complete 50 hours of community service.
- Special Project Opportunities – The JLA provides trained volunteers for short-term projects such as Done-in-a-Day type events.
- Board of Directors Participation – JLA volunteers specifically trained in non-profit Board service are available to sit on your agency’s Board of Directors or Advisory Committees.
- Advocacy – The JLA partners with agencies whose agendas overlap those of the JLA mission and focus areas to build legislative support, and provide advocacy training to our partners.
- League Iniatiative Early Childhood Education – JLA volunteers provide Early Childhood Education programs (targeted specifically to children ages 0-5), including programs devoted to assisting parents of children in this age group with life and job skills building as well as financial literacy.
- League Initiative CSEC Pilot Project – JLA volunteers provide training on the issue of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Atlanta, including how to identify the warning signs of those who may be impacted by this important issue.
- Collaboration – The JLA collaborates with community agencies by providing volunteers with skills from an existing community placement or by connecting existing community partners directly to work on a project, a drive or a new innovation.
- Community Drives – The JLA conducts drives on behalf of our community partners and distributed the supplies collected throughout the year. Past drives have included collection of items such as children's books, school supplies, clothing items, used household items and baby items.
- Empowerment Award – This annual award is designed to honor and reward a client of a community agency who has overcome adversity to achieve self-sufficiency, as well as the agency who assisted her in the process. Both the individual and the agency receive a monetary prize and the individual receives a ‘prize package’ of goods and services donated by local businesses. The JLA welcomes agencies submit an application for consideration of this award.
- ChildWatch Tour Site – The HLA coordinates a ChildWatch bus tour once a year to educate our members and other community leaders about the needs of children at risk in out community in order to inspire effective change. The bus tour consists of site visits where agencies have the opportunity to discuss their mission, needs and successes.
- Girls Roundtable – Each year the JLA hosts an educational, interactive discussion focusing on a hot topic for agencies that serve girls. Agencies learn about ways to better work with girls and have the opportunity to network with others from different organizations that are dealing with similar issues, and share ideas and success stories.
- Kids in the Kitchen – The JLA provides instructional and interactive events which empower youth to make healthy lifestyle choices to help fight the growth of childhood obesity and its associated negative health issues.
- Peach Pipes Choral Group – Peach Pipes is the 44 year running legendary Junior League of Atlanta singing ensemble. The group performs around Atlanta on Wednesday mornings at special care facilities and agencies serving women and children.
- Building a Better Community Project – In response to the tragedies of 9/11, the JLA started its "Building a Better Community" project. Specifically, as we strive to build a better community, we look for projects to help us improve the community in an impactful way while bringing together members of the community to affect that change and educate the community on its impact of collective action.
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Applying for Partnership
To request to become a Community Partner of The Junior League of Atlanta, please submit an application after reviewing our guidelines. We do request that all current and potentially new partners submit an application yearly. We look forward to working with you over the next year.
Click here
to download the Junior League of Atlanta Partnership Guidelines (Adobe PDF format)
Click here
to download the Junior League of Atlanta Community Partner Application (Word Doc format).
Submit the application (including all attachments and support materials) to:
The Junior League of Atlanta, Inc.
Attention: Community Partnership Requests
3154 Northside Parkway, N.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30327
Interested in learning more about becoming a Partner of the Junior League of Atlanta? Please join us at our Annual Commnunity Breakfast listed at the top of this page.
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Application Deadlines
Our Community Partner Applications are due June 22, 2010
When resources are available, applications may be accepted year-round for the following types of partnerships or invitation requests
- Project Opportunities
- Board Participation
- Advocacy
- Collaboration
- Community Drives
- ChildWatch Tour
- Empowerment Award
- Girls Roundtable
- Kids In The Kitchen
- Peach Pipes
- Building a Better Community
*Partnership requests to be considered as a volunteer placement agency will be reviewed between June 2010 - March 2011 and such placements would commence June 2011 through May 2012 (to coincide with the League's fiscal year). Applications received after the deadlines noted above cannot be considered. All other Partnership requests will be reviewed for implementation between June 2010 - 2011.
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Questions
Please contact the Chair of the Community Placement Evaluation Committee at communityapplications@jlatlanta.org.
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