Community Program

Community Program Arts & Cultural Enrichment

Supporting efforts to create and enrich the quality of life through arts and cultural enrichment opportunities which are accessible to all members of the community. 191 volunteers and $79,322 funding

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts

As Dallas’ revolutionary high school for 21st century scholar artists, we provide intensive, integrated training to build a bridge to the post-secondary and professional world. JLD volunteers staff the Senior Showcase and school auditions. These events are critical in helping students gain access to post-secondary schools and provide students a collegiate experience in front of more than 100 colleges and conservatories.

Dallas Arboretum

The Dallas Arboretum builds and maintains a public botanical garden that promotes the art, enjoyment and knowledge of horticulture, while providing opportunities for education and research. JLD volunteers assist in educational activities, special events and serve as docents in the historic DeGolyer House and in the Children’s Adventure Garden.

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum is dedicated to teaching the history of the Holocaust and advancing human rights to combat prejudice, hatred and indifference. JLD volunteers serve as Visitor Guides to help orient guests, answer questions about the museum and assist museum staff with various tasks. Tenured volunteers are able to train to become Gallery Docents or Dimensions in Testimony Facilitators.

Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) places art and our diverse communities at the center around which all activities radiate, pursues excellence in collecting and programming, presents works of art across cultures and time and is a driving force in contemporary art. JLD volunteers help facilitate education programs designed to encourage visitors to creatively respond to works from the Museum’s collections while fostering meaningful experiences.

Dallas Zoo

With nearly one million visitors each year, the Dallas Zoo works to create a better world for animals by engaging people and saving wildlife. JLD volunteers serve as educators and guides in various areas of the zoo as well as animal care aides, assisting in meal preparation for the animals.

George W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum

The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum serves as a resource for the study of the life and career of George W. Bush, while promoting a better understanding of the presidency, American history and important issues of public policy. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the federal agency responsible for maintaining the 13 presidential libraries in the United States. JLD volunteers at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration serve as docents at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, educating the public on the life and career of George W. Bush.

Musical Outreach

Musical Outreach, formerly Musical Therapy, is the longest running volunteer opportunity at the JLD! Members provide companionship, stimulation and entertainment for adults in the Dallas area by presenting a musical program and interacting with residents in various assisted living and memory care centers.

Community Program Education

Supporting efforts to promote excellence in education and access to education for all individuals. 169 volunteers and $109,000 funding

Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas inspires and enables all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. JLD volunteers run the Collegiate STEPS program, helping prepare high school members of the Boys & Girls Club for college through mentoring and workshops. The program culminates each year with the Threshold of Opportunities (TOPPS) celebration.

Friends of the Dallas Public Library

Friends of the Dallas Public Library advocates, fundraises and provides critical support for the Dallas Public Library and related literary and educational programs. JLD volunteers serve as instructors for a High School Equivalency exam prep program or as educators who work with children while parents attend ESL classes. Both placement options are at Dallas Public Libraries throughout the city.

Notre Dame School

Notre Dame School educates students with developmental disabilities and facilitates their integration into society. Founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1963, Notre Dame School remains the only independent school in Dallas serving this special population. JLD volunteers serve in concentrated placements during the school’s summer camps or as classroom assistants throughout the school year.

Perot Museum of Nature & Science

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a nonprofit educational organization with a mission to inspire minds through nature and science. The Perot Museum delivers exciting, engaging and innovative visitor and outreach experiences through its education, exhibition and research and collections programming for children, students, teachers, families and life-long learners. JLD volunteers assist at sleepovers at the museum or serve as Science Partners.

Texas Discovery Gardens

Texas Discovery Gardens is a 7.5-acre certified organic public garden with 12 themed gardens and a glass conservatory that supports butterflies year-round and teaches effective ways to restore, conserve and preserve nature in an urban environment with a focus on education, gardening and sustainability. JLD volunteers serve as yearround docents in the gardens and butterfly house or serve in a concentrated placement as docents during the State Fair.

The Ashford Rise School of Dallas

The Ashford Rise School of Dallas provides the highest quality education and therapy services to preschool children with and without developmental disabilities within the context of a developmentally appropriate curriculum, provides family centered services designed to meet the needs of all children and families and prepares children for their next learning environment. Each classroom consists of 60 - 70 percent of children with developmental delays and 30 - 40 percent of children without developmental delays. JLD volunteers work directly in classrooms at The Rise School as instructional assistants.

Community Program Family Preservation

Supporting efforts to promote the physical and emotional well-being of families. 157 volunteers and $97,231 funding

Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas

Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. As the premier girls’ leadership organization, GSNETX knows that developing girl leaders is vital because when women have the opportunity to exercise leadership, communities are more prosperous, families are stronger and individuals are treated more fairly. JLD volunteers assist with council-led activities and workshops focused on life skills, civic engagement, entrepreneurship, outdoor leadership and STEM for girls in grades kindergarten through grade 12. They also serve as program volunteers at GSNETX’s acclaimed STEM Center of Excellence in southern Dallas County.

Juliette Fowler Communities

Juliette Fowler Communities provides choice, creates community and develops connections for the children, youth, elders and families they serve. JLD volunteers work with older adults experiencing every progression of memory loss – from very early stages of mild cognition loss to advanced dementia – to help residents share their stories through visual arts. At the end of the year, volunteers curate an art show showcasing the residents’ work.

Promise House

Promise House stabilizes and offers hope to youth and families in crisis through crisis intervention, emergency shelter, transitional living, education, counseling, street outreach and advocacy. JLD volunteers serve in three capacities at Promise House, mentoring and activity planning in both the shelter and long-term transitional housing program, working as a personal shopper/store manager in the on-site “free store” or planning summer activities for youth at the center.

Rays of Light

Rays of Light provides free, quality respite care to families with children with special needs, across the spectrum, in the Dallas metropolitan area. JLD volunteers are paired with a special friend during each Night Lights event to guide them through activities including coloring, basketball, reading, watching movies, playing with toys, live entertainment and more.

Ronald McDonald House of Dallas

Ronald McDonald House of Dallas (RMHD) keeps families together, inspires strength and gives love and support to families whose children are receiving essential medical care. JLD volunteers cook weekly breakfast for the families staying at the House, plan weekly activities/arts and crafts projects and assist with check-in, check-out and facility tours.

St. Philip’s School & Community Center

St. Philip’s School & Community Center enhances the lives of children and families regardless of economic background, but with particular emphasis on low and moderate income families, through educational excellence, Christian principles and compatible community services. JLD volunteers help St. Philip’s staff plan and implement the Girls’ Night Out program, an overnight, on-site event. Volunteers also serve as part of the volunteer pool to help the agency with their greatest needs at the time and volunteer in the food pantry.

Baylor Healthcare System Foundation: Twice Blessed House

Twice Blessed House (TBH) provides affordable and convenient housing for solid organ and bone marrow transplant patients and their caregivers while they are awaiting or recovering transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center. JLD volunteers prepare and serve weekly dinners, coordinate movie nights and provide social support

Community Program Health

Supporting efforts to promote adequate, accessible and preventive health services to all individuals. 181 volunteers and $188,600 funding

Cancer Support Community of North Texas

Cancer Support Community of North Texas (CSCNT) ensures all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action and sustained by community with a vision that no one should have to face cancer alone. JLD volunteers provide support in three areas: Hostesses assist in the daily operations, Noogieland volunteers provide supportive play and nurturing for children with cancer or children whose lives have been touched by cancer and special events/program outreach volunteers provide support during various events.

Children’s Health

Children’s Health makes life better for children. JLD volunteers assist with parties and events for those who are hospitalized, help in the playroom, plan and participate in family fun nights and provide an art cart and supplies for various crafts.

Equest

Equest enhances the quality of life for children and adults with diverse needs by partnering with horses to bring hope and healing through equine-assisted activities and therapies. Equest’s unique therapies result in improved muscle strength, coordination, independence, self-confidence and overall, a more positive quality of life. JLD volunteers work directly with clients and the class instructors assisting with the horseback riding classes.

Methodist Hospital System Foundation

Methodist Dallas Medical Center serves North Texas as a leader in sophisticated, compassionate medical care with world-class medical education and residency programs and is one of the leading teaching and referral hospitals in Texas. JLD volunteers serve as cuddlers in the NICU and assist in various other locations throughout the hospital.

Parkland Health & Hospital System

Parkland Health & Hospital System furnishes medical aid and hospital care to indigent and needy persons residing in Dallas County. JLD volunteers work in the Emergency Room (ER), Nursery, Rape Crisis Center and wayfinding areas. Upon request, JLD volunteers also help with Parkland’s special events such as jazz concerts and holiday initiatives.

Scottish Rite for Children

Scottish Rite for Children improves the lives of children by providing world-class medical care, facilitating innovative professional education programs and conducting cutting-edge research in the field of pediatric orthopedics. JLD volunteers participate in multiple roles at Scottish Rite. From popping popcorn and running the gift shop to playing games, organizing craft nights for the patients and assisting with special events, JLD volunteers fulfill many of the hospital’s needs.

The Senior Source

The Senior Source enhances the overall quality of older adults in greater Dallas. JLD volunteers assist with residents and plan themed parties throughout the year at Diversicare of Lake Highlands, a local nursing home.

Community Program Poverty Intervention

Supporting efforts to break the cycle of poverty by meeting the basic needs of the economically disadvantaged. 117 volunteers and $136,000 funding

Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity

Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity (DAHFH) builds quality, affordable homes in partnership with deserving families by bringing people together to create communities and hope. JLD volunteers build, repair and renovate homes through Dallas Area Habitat for Humanity’s various home ownership programs. Volunteers are involved in all exterior tasks of home construction and repair, including building and raising walls, siding and roof installation, painting and landscaping.

Interfaith Family Services

Interfaith Family Services provides transitional housing, training and support services to Dallas-area homeless families, giving them an opportunity to consolidate their resources and secure permanent housing and employment. JLD volunteers serve as resident mentors and provide regular financial coaching to families in the program. They also help decorate and set up apartments for new family move-ins and serve dinner to the children of the families in the program twice a week.

Literacy Achieves

Literacy Achieves equips non-English speaking adults and their young children with English literacy and life skills to promote self-sufficiency and the overall well-being of students, their families and the greater community by offering programs in verbal, written and computer communication skills. Classes focus on basic English and life skills such as budgeting and scheduling appointments while promoting cultural understanding among students and volunteers. JLD volunteers work directly with adults and children to help them learn to read and achieve literacy. Volunteers also provide weekly subject-based instruction to prepare class participants to pass the GED, or high school equivalency exam.

Nexus Recovery Center

Nexus Recovery Center serves as a link to sobriety, independence and dignity for low-income women and their families affected by addiction by inspiring hope, offering respect and honoring the unique differences of female addicts. JLD volunteers serve as workout buddies and attend classes on the Nexus Recovery Center campus to motivate, encourage and work out with female clients enrolled in residential treatments. Volunteers can also lead yoga or Zumba sessions or a walk through the 11-acre campus.

North Dallas Shared Ministries

North Dallas Shared Ministries (NDSM) is a cooperative effort of 45 local congregations that provides emergency assistance and wellness programs, assists with access to entitlement, health and community programs and facilitates financial independence programs for persons in need. JLD volunteers serve as client intake interviewers, food pantry workers, clothes closet organizers, tax return preparation assistants and as a friendly face in the agency’s medical clinic.

North Texas Food Bank

The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) strives for a hunger-free, healthy North Texas. The Food 4 Kids (F4K) backpack program at the North Texas Food Bank supplies qualifying elementary age students and their siblings with an F4K backpack to take home over the weekend that is filled with nutritious meals. JLD volunteers pack child-friendly meals for NTFB’s Food 4 Kids program, which distributes a backpack of groceries to hungry Dallas ISD elementary school students and their families each Friday.

Community Program Violence Intervention

Supporting efforts to reduce the incidence of domestic violence, child abuse and juvenile delinquency. 174 volunteers and $149,480 funding

Community Partners of Dallas

Community Partners of Dallas (CPD) provides what abused children urgently need today to thrive tomorrow. JLD volunteers provide resources and support to Dallas caseworkers by serving as Caseworker Advocates, Rainbow Room assistants, Heart Program volunteers and Holiday Helpers.

Dallas CASA

Dallas CASA recruits, trains and supervises community volunteers who are appointed by the courts to represent the best interests of abused, neglected and abandoned children in protective care. JLD provides trained, courtappointed volunteers who investigate and monitor the case and subsequent protection of abused and neglected children and serve as advocates in court to help them get into safe, loving homes.

Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center

Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center (DCAC) improves the lives of abused children in Dallas County and provides national leadership on child abuse issues. JLD volunteers help with the preparation and execution of the Crimes Against Children Conference – the premiere conference for law enforcement, CPS and social workers who work directly with child victims of crime. Volunteers also assist in the playroom at DCAC headquarters.

Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support

Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support provides safety, shelter and support for women who have experienced domestic violence and raises awareness regarding its cause, prevalence and impact. JLD volunteers serve as holiday program assistants, hotline and resource volunteers, Kids PALS, thrift store associates and Conference on Crimes Against Women volunteers.

Our Friends Place

Our Friends Place (OFP) provides a positive and encouraging environment for young women ages 18 to 24 to emerge from adversity through positive role models, counseling and life skills classes at a supervised apartment setting. JLD volunteers serve as life skills coaches and office friends.

The Family Place

The Family Place empowers victims of family violence by providing safe housing, counseling and skills that create independence while building community engagement and advocating for social change to stop family violence. JLD volunteers serve in the shelter, providing assistance for victims of family violence. Volunteers also help in the Child Development Center, retail shop and at summer camp.

Additional League-Supported Programs

Musical Outreach

Musical Outreach, formerly Musical Therapy, is the longest running volunteer opportunity at the JLD! JLD volunteers provide companionship, stimulation and entertainment for adults, teens and children in the Dallas area by presenting a musical program and interacting with residents in various assisted living and memory care centers.

Community Outreach

This program addresses critical needs with Community Impact Projects and grants that support our focus areas, including monetary grants for emergency/short-term needs of Dallas nonprofit agencies through the Community Assistance Fund.

This year the Junior League of Dallas’ Community Outreach team partnered with the Dallas City Council to collect feminine hygiene products for their Ending Period Poverty Initiative. The League also granted emergency grant funding to the Bridge Breast Network, Nexus Recovery Center and half a dozen other nonprofits to help keep their programs running to serve the Dallas community.

Additional League-Supported Programs

Provisional Projects

Each year, the League trains first-year members, “Provisionals,” to be effective volunteers and leaders in the community. Provisionals complete a comprehensive training course, giving them a first-hand look at the needs of the Dallas community. Each woman completes a 20-hour community service project at Dallas-area nonprofits including: Legacy Counseling Center, Mission Oak Cliff, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Rainbow Days, Ronald McDonald House, St. Philip’s School and Community Center and The Senior Source.

Transfer Projects

The League offers “Done in a Day” projects for members who have recently transferred into the Junior League of Dallas from other Leagues. This year, the League partnered with Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Volunteers of America Texas Castleglen Apartments, a senior housing complex that provides affordable low-income housing under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

For the first project, transfers assisted at a family-friendly event at GSNETX’s STEM Center of Excellence that brought together outdoor and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) activities with a Valentine’s Day theme. For the second project - with Volunteers of America - Transfers spent the day beautifying the apartment complex by painting the fencing around the property, cleaning gardens, fixing and delivering lunch and engaging with the residents. Both projects included eight hours of service, engaging activities with the nonprofits’ participants and a $500 grant from the JLD for the nonprofit to use for the day’s events.

Signature Projects

Grants for Innovative Teaching

Presenting Sponsor: Texas Instruments

On September 1, 2021, the Junior League of Dallas, along with Presenting Sponsor Texas Instruments, awarded 42 Dallas Independent School District (Dallas ISD) educators with funding up to $2,500 each through the annual Grants for Innovative Teaching (GFIT) program. Now in its 30th year, the Signature Project has awarded more than $2 million to Dallas ISD educators since its inception in 1992. This year, the League distributed more than $88,000 to fund deserving educators’ winning projects that address reading and literacy enrichment; diversity; special education; science, technology, engineering and math (STEM); or arts and culture enrichment across one or more grade levels. Each teacher is recognized for their passion and excellence in providing special projects and experiences for their students that would be impossible within current school budgets. Co-sponsors include The Hillcrest Foundation, Bank of America N.A., Co-Trustee and Agnes Cluthe Oliver Foundation.

Kids in the Kitchen

Presenting Sponsor: UnitedHealthcare

The Kids in the Kitchen (KITK) signature project empowers youth in grades K – 5 to make healthy lifestyle choices and helps fight childhood obesity and its associated health issues through an eight-week after-school program. Through the KITK interactive program, children are taught how to prepare easy, nutritious meals, work safely in the kitchen and incorporate exercise into their daily lives. All recipes are kid tested and truly kid friendly, calling for simple ingredients that do not require an oven or stove. KITK currently serves 43 sites across 10 agencies throughout Dallas County, impacting the lives of more than 750 kids. The League provides each agency with a curriculum, materials, fitness equipment and funding for food. Kids in the Kitchen is supported by the Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI) Inc. and its member Leagues.

Signature Projects

Women LEAD

Presenting Sponsor: Ryan Foundation

Founded in 2013 by the Junior League of Dallas, in collaboration with Mary Kay Inc., the Women LEAD (Learn + Excel + Achieve + Dream) Scholarship Program was created to help female high school students pursue their dreams of higher education and to create opportunities for future women leaders.

Now supported by Ryan Foundation, the program has grown from one Dallas Independent School District high school to three – Emmett J. Conrad, Thomas Jefferson and South Oak Cliff high schools. Each spring, 10 finalists from the three Dallas ISD schools compete for a total of $40,000 in college scholarships. Since the inception of this Signature Project, the League has awarded 62 scholarships totaling $305,000 to female seniors at Emmett J. Conrad, South Oak Cliff and Thomas Jefferson High Schools.

T. Boone Pickens Leadership Institute

Established in 2008 with a generous gift from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation, the T. Boone Pickens Leadership Institute is designed to provide leadership training to a selected annual class of our members.

Today, more than 360 members have participated in the nine-month development and leadership training and have taken what they have learned to advance their careers, lead for- and nonprofit boards and serve in elected and civic held positions.

Alumnae have gone on to lead city-wide initiatives, task forces and organizations, working to make positive changes in North Texas.

Milestone Members

In Honor of: 1993 – 1994 JLD Executive Committee 1998 – 1999 JLD Executive Committee By Connie O’Neill

In Honor of: 2018 – 2019 JLD Board of Directors By Alicia Hall

In Honor of: 2021 – 2022 Underwriting Team By Marisa Partin

In Honor of: Ashley Allen By Hollee Hirzel

In Honor of: Julie Bagley By Alicia Hall

In Honor of: Brooke Bailey By 2019 – 2020 JLD Board of Directors By Alicia Hall

In Honor of: Jan Baldwin By Kay Wood

In Honor of: Genie Bentley By Maureen Kuntz

In Honor of: Emily Somerville Cabrera By Catherine McEachem

In Honor of: Clare Chaney By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Susan DeLee Cuellar By Linda Otstott

In Honor of: Sissy Cullum By Angela Linburg

In Honor of: Paula Davis By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Margo Goodwin By Sandy Ammons By Jennifer Dix By Sandra Estess By Connie O’Neill By Marilyn Smith

In Honor of: Louise Griffeth By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Ellen Griswold By Donald Griswold

In Honor of: Alicia Hall By 2018 – 2019 Board of Directors By Kimberly, Becky, Theresa, Shannon, Melissa, Jen, Marisa, Katherine, Staci and Sara

In Honor of: Isabell Novakov Higginbotham By Sandy Ammons By Jennifer Dix By Connie O’Neill By Kim Quinn

Milestone Members

In Honor of: Ann Lawrence By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Meredith Mosley By Hollee Hirzel

In Honor of: Lydia Novakov By Sandy Ammons By Jennifer Dix By Angela Linburg By Connie O’Neill By Kim Quinn By Karen Shuford

In Honor of: Connie O’Neill By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Mrs. William R. Peeler (Kittye Cowan) By Jan Waggoner

In Honor of: Former JLD Presidents By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Former JLD Sustainer Presidents By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of Janet Quisenberry By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of:

Luisa del Rosal

By Lindsay Davis In Honor of:

Christa Brown Sanford

By 2021 – 2022 Board of Directors By Connie O’Neill

In Honor of: Kelley Schadt By Hollee Hirzel

In Honor of: Linda Secrest By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Bettye Slaven By Judy Ferguson

In Honor of: Deborah Sutton By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Dr. Gail Griffin Thomas By Victoria Mannes

In Honor of: Donna Vanderwoude By Jane Purcell

In Honor of: Joan Walne By Sandy Ammons

In Honor of: Kristina Bush Whitcomb By Mary Bush

In Honor of: Kimberly Yamanouchi, Former JLD Sustainer of the Year By Sandy Ammons

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