“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”-
Mother Theresa
On behalf of the Board of Directors and Management Team, I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I cannot wait to see many of you at our upcoming Holiday Luncheon! This is my favorite time of the year; I love any reason to spend time with friends and family during this season. The twinkly lights, the decor, the music, and the fellowship, all give me that warm fuzzy feeling. The spirit of all the holidays currently happening is exactly what brought me to JLPB in the first place: to give to others and help make our community a better place for those in need. I could continue to wax poetic about the holidays, but luckily we have some very exciting League updates for you with regard to programming and some Nominating reminders.
First, the Board of Directors as adopted two new definitions that will encompass our community work and accompany our new mission statement adopted at our September General Membership Meeting:
The Junior League of the Palm Beaches is committed to providing meaningful opportunities for children and young adults to increase their levels of education and literacy in Palm Beach County. Our nonprofit specifically addresses these challenges through grade readiness, emergent literacy, and life skills programming provided to those in need.
Junior League of the Palm Beaches also seeks to improve the health and wellness of women and girls in our community through our period supply bank, leadership training opportunities, and educational opportunities in order to empower strong female civic leaders.
We hope these statements will be useful in discussing our community work and impact. At the end of the year, we will have more impact data to accompany these definitions, which will help our members and community partners to better understand everything we do.
Next, JLPB will be hosting its second 5k “Spring Into Spring Training” on February 3, 2023. This event will be open to everyone and we highly encourage you to invite others to attend as we must fundraise in order to support our community projects. Sign-ups will be available online in December, but we cannot wait to host this event with the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches. More updates will be forthcoming next month. |