Making An Impact

The Junior League of Spokane engages in several smaller-scale impactful projects each year. These impact projects range from diaper drives to hosting dinners for homeless families. Impact projects give our members regular opportunities to connect directly with the community by providing direct support to deserving causes, while still fitting it into our busy schedules!

​PAST IMPACT PROJECTS

  • Creating pack kits and notes for families experiencing homelessness with Family Promise
  • Assisting with yard cleanup and donation organizing at Miryam’s House
  • Sorting food and assembling meal kits with 2nd Harvest
  • Cleaning up trash along the Spokane River with Spokane Riverkeeper
  • Sorting, cleaning, and organizing donated cosmetics with Project Beauty Share
  • Assisting with donation drive to prevent animal hunger with the Spokane Humane Society
  • Creating and maintaining Reading Corners at community organizations in Spokane
  • Providing annual volunteer support to Tom’s Turkey Drive, from helping at area grocery stores to providing day-of assistance at the pick-up event
  • Cooking meals for the families housed at Ronald McDonald House
  • Providing volunteer support for the Cobra Polo Classic, an annual fundraiser benefitting the Ronald McDonald House
  • Painting, decorating and updating rooms at Women’s Hearth, an organization for women recovering from homelessness and/or drug addiction
  • Providing volunteers, administrative support, and day-of help for the Foster Santa Breakfast, a holiday gathering for families of foster kids
  • Working with Spokane Public Schools to help stuff backpacks with information and resources for incoming kindergarteners

 

READING CORNER LOCATIONS

  • Women & Children’s Free Restaurant
  • CHAS
  • Early Life Speech & Language Center
  • Rising Strong
  • Union Gospel Mission Women & Children’s Shelter
  • West Central Community Center

DID YOU KNOW...

JLS founded the Santa Breakfast event over 20 years ago. We nurtured it to a beloved annual holiday gathering for over 400 foster children and their families before passing it along to the caring hands of Embrace Washington.

WOMAN POWER

In 2022-2023, Junior League of Spokane members also donated their woman power to several Spokane area organizations, including:

  • Beyond Pink
  • Embrace Washington’s Santa Breakfast
  • Family Promise
  • Miryam’s House
  • Project Beauty Share
  • The Jonah Project
  • Spokane Humane Society
  • Spokane Riverkeeper
  • Tom’s Turkey Drive
  • West Central Community Center
  • 2nd Harvest

GET INVOLVED

Do you have an event or a program that needs volunteers, or do you have an idea for an upcoming JLS impact project?

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