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Our Causes

Our Signature Project

Every three years, we select a new community organization to partner with and call them our "Signature Project."

 

We are currently partnering with NECCO.  Since 2006, NECCO has been building families and supporting our community in Albany,GA. They provide services related to the welfare of children in need of loving, stable and supportive families and accomplish this through adoption, foster care, independent living, supported living, community rehabilitation, residential living, behavioral health counseling and related support services.

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Children's Miracle Network

As a League, we also elect to donate a portion of funds to Children's Miracle Network (CMN) as they have been an instrumental part of so many League members' lives. 

Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals has helped fill the funding gaps that do not cover the entire cost of a child's care.  We support this nonprofit’s mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible.

Provisional Project

Each year's provisional class selects a cause to contribute to. 

2022-2023 Provisional Project TBD

Foster Care

For the past several years, the Junior League of Albany, Georgia, Inc. has been engaged in the Foster Care Awareness project. It has evolved over the years into meaningful community involvement for children who have been abused or neglected by their parents or caregivers and have been removed from these caregivers by the judicial system for their safety and well-being. 

Over the past few years, the majority of our foster care efforts and volunteer hours benefited the Lily Pad, an umbrella organization that includes the CASA program. CASA provides neglected and abused children that are involved in juvenile court proceedings with a safe permanent home.

 

Due to the overwhelming generosity of League Members and the community at large, we have been able to provide much-needed school supplies, Christmas gifts and Easter baskets, and support for academic endeavors. 

Kids in the Kitchen

The goal of the Junior Leagues' Kids in the Kitchen initiative, which is supported by The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. and its member Leagues, is to empower youth to make healthy lifestyle choices and help reverse the growth of childhood obesity and its associated health issues. 

Inspired by the Junior League of Calgary's Junior Chefs program, the Junior Leagues' Kids in the Kitchen  initiative began in 2006 with the goal of engaging kids in the preparation of healthy meals as a means to educate them and their parents regarding nutrition and healthy choices. Junior Leagues in more than 200 locations provide lessons and demonstrations related to preparation of healthy meals and snacks in partnership with local community organizations, chefs, nutritionist and schools. 

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Teacher Grants

The Junior League of Albany, Ga offers grants for innovative teachers! 

 

The 2022-2023 program will provide grants to individual teachers in Dougherty County, Lee County, and independent schools in the city of Albany.

 

These funds will be awarded for proposals that offer innovative ideas in supplementing the classroom curriculum with the following criteria:

  • creativity and innovation

  • benefits to the students

  • efficient use of grant funds

  • adaptability of the project for use by other teachers

2022-2023 Applications are open.

Please click the link below.

Teacher Grants
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