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COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
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The Junior League of Wilmington is an area leader in developing and
implementing volunteer projects that meet the changing needs of the
community. We have an extensive history of bringing forth projects that
have a long and successful life, and can easily be transferred back to the
community. We offer continued support and guidance when needed, on
programs that we start.
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Current Programs
Our current focus is on LITERACY. The following is a list of the projects the
League is currently supporting.
- Helping the East Side Charter School by purchasing an accelerated reading program for them and by organizing
their library (read
more).
- Acquiring the supplies and assembling the Baylor Mothertime Story Kits for Read Aloud Delaware. These reading/activity kits
are for children who are visiting their mother at Baylor
Correctional Facility.
- Acquiring the supplies and assembling the I Love to Read Award Packets
for Read Aloud Delaware. These award packets
are given to children to award them for reading with their parents.
- Preparing a large mailing for the Caregiver Conference conducted by Read Aloud Delaware.
- Running book drives throughout the year for Read Aloud Delaware.
- Providing a monthly literacy program for children and parents at the Knollwood Community Center.
- Conducting meetings once a month for Grandparents United Delaware where we take care of the children while
their primary caregivers (grandparents, aunts, uncles) meet in a support
group.
- Providing volunteer mentors who meet with one child from the Bayard School
for an hour each week during school hours. This is in support of Delaware Creative Mentoring.
- Designing, furnishing, and providing reading materials for the lounge/library at Delaware Adolescents Program Inc. (DAPI).
- Continuing the League's Teacher's Supply Closet where
teachers can purchase gently used books and donated classroom
supplies at deeply discounted prices.
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Past Programs
After early concentration on war work, the Junior League
channeled its efforts into originating and supporting community service
organizations focusing on the physical and psychological well-being of women and
children. Traditionally, the League has begun or boosted fledgling
organizations and withdrew when these organizations were able to function
without its support. Throughout its history, the League has renewed its
affiliations with many organizations and participated in numerous coalitions.
The following is a list of the most significant League projects, by decade.
1920's
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Well
Baby Clinic and Health Center
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Delaware
School for Deaf Children
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Italian
Settlement (now the West End Neighborhood House)
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Children's
Bureau
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Theater
Puppet Committee
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Children's
Play Committee
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Girl's
Industrial School
1930's
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Mayor's
Committee for Relief during the Depression
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Summer
Food Relief
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Children's
Bureau
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Delaware
School for Deaf Children
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West
End Neighborhood House
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Wilmington
Society for the Fine Arts
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Delaware
Art Center
1940's
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West
End Neighborhood House
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Children's
Home
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Delaware
School for Deaf Children
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U.S.O.
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Women's
Division War Finance Committee
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Christmas
Stocking Fund
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Delaware
Curative Workshop
1950's
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Child
Guidance Center
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Christmas
Clearing House
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Delaware
Curative Workshop
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Theater
Puppet Committee
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Radio
& TV Committee produced series of children's programs
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Wilmington
Senior Center
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Delaware
Art Museum docent service
1960's
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Delaware
Art Museum Children's Gallery
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Fun
Books
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Historic
Preservation Survey for Historical Society of Delaware
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Delaware
Nature Education Society and Ashland Nature Center
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Child
Diagnostic and Development Center for Delaware and Jefferson Pre-School
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SERVE
(Seniors Engaged in Regular Volunteer Efforts) at the Wilmington Senior Center
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DAPI
(Delaware Adolescent Program, Inc.)
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Theater
Puppet Committee
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Wilmington
Senior Center
1970's
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PEG
(Preventative Environmental for Girls, Inc.)
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POST
(Parents Organized for Support and Training)
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Historic
preservation brochure with Delaware Ethnic Studies and Culture, Inc.
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Art
to the Hospitals
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DAPI
advocacy committee
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Right
to Read School Volunteer tutor program
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Willingtown
Square
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Wilmington
Senior Center
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CIP
(Concern for Children in Placement)
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Brandywine
House (elderly congregate living facility)
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Permanency, Security and Love (children's rights conference)
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Four
Our Children brochure
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Mini
Museums from Metropolitan Museum of Art
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CAN
(Child Advocacy Newsletter)
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Grand
Opera House Victorian staircase (JLW 60th Anniversary)
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A
Family Foundation: Today's Child, Tomorrow's Adult, a lecture series
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Foster
Care Review Act
1980's
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Rockwood
Museum
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Sharing,
Caring, Loving: Your Baby and You parenting manual
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Wilmington
Waterways
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Parents
Anonymous of Delaware, Inc.
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Ashland
Nature Center Discovery Room
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Guardian
Ad Litem
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Public
School Volunteers
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Hospice
newsletter, library and Speaker's Bureau
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POST
(Parents Organized for Support and Training)
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Women's
History Week
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Child,
Inc.
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Waterfront
Task Force, Wilmington Waterways (Waterfest Children's Corner)
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Delaware
Women's Conference
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Alfred
I. duPont Auxiliary & Red Balloon Gift Shop
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Poplar
Street Greenspace
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Bubbylonian
Encounter
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Delaware
Children's Theatre
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The
Prevention Project
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Woman
to Woman
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Wilmington
Institute Public Library
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Senior
Citizens Health Care Booklet with the Wilmington Senior Center
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We
Care in Delaware and the Ronald McDonald House
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Women's
Legislative Roundtable sponsor
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Hallmark's
Kaleidoscope creative art workshop
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Franny
Maguire testified before two subcommittees of U.S. Congress about foster care
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Parents
as Teachers pilot with Parent Early Education Center
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Distribution
of ChildSafe Tape by Video Matrix
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Reportline
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Selected
Teen Outreach
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Ronald
McDonald House (fundraising raffle at LPGA McDonald's Championship)
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Ad-Hoc
Task Force on Homelessness
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Read-Aloud
Delaware
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Delaware
Children's Museum
1990's
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YWCA
Project Self-Sufficiency
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Adolescent
Parent Advocates
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ARC
Adolescent Clinic
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Child,
Inc.
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Community
Legal Aid Society, Inc.
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Supporting
K.I.D.D.S.
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West
End Neighborhood House
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Immunization
Public Awareness Campaign
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Bridges
for Play JLW 75th Anniversary Playground Project
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Multicultural
Task Force
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Delaware
Women's Conference
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Delaware
Children's Museum
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Read-Aloud
Delaware
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Ronald
McDonald House (fundraising raffle at LPGA McDonald's Championship)
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Wellness
Community-Delaware
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ARC
(Assoc. for the Rights of Citizens with Mental Retardation) House
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YWCA
Mural
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Restoration
of the Monkey Hill Pavilion
2000's
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