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Highlights From Volunteer Appreciation Award Night
By: Kimberly Perros
The mission of Junior League of Cincinnati is to advance women’s leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. Nationally, Volunteer Appreciation Week is celebrated in April, and the JLC has hosted an annual Volunteer Appreciation Night the past few years to give all members as volunteers and to provide a chance to shine and have their contributions recognized by the JLC. This year’s ceremony awarded six members for various areas of service and volunteering with our partners including; Girls On The Run, Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank, Mentoring Plus, Our Daily Bread, Family Nurturing Center, and many more. The awards night was hosted at the Columbia Center with the help of CandO’s chair, Emily Keller.
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The awards night opened with a quote from Aesop’s Fables story, The Lion and The Mouse, “No act of kindness,no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Members and leaders were then recognized for their efforts throughout the year as volunteers, including:
• Small But Mighty Award: Yashna Patel. Yashna is an Active member who helped serve on both the Engagement committee and Perspectives committee for 2022-2023 League year. She assisted with serving on the Perspectives Committee as vice chair.
• New Member MVP Award: Rachel Romer and Daniella “Dani” Rodriguez, two members who were showcased for their contributions this year. Rachel served on the Spring Fundraiser committee and Dani served on the CandO committee.
• Service With A Smile Award: Emily Bakes. Emily is an Active member who serves as chair of the Marketing committee.
• Digital Cheetah AwROARd: Amy Jo Jones. Amy Jo Jones is chair of the Online committee.
• Flower Power Award: Kathryn Harsh. Kathryn is a Sustainer and contributed beautiful flowers for the fashion show and other events throughout the year.
The ceremony closed another quote saying,“No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.” by Joseph Addison, an English political writer and poet. JLC values all our volunteers and the impact they make in the JLC and our community.
