Welcome to the Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale website. For over seventy years, we have been serving Broward County by living our mission:
The Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and to improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
The Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale serves our community in four ways: through direct service, indirect service, capacity building, and advocacy.
- Direct Service - Our Childhood Fitness and Nutrition committee teaches children how to make healthy snacks.
- Indirect Service - Our members serve as League representatives on the Board of Directors of 15 Broward County nonprofit organizations.
- Capacity Building - Our Done In A Day committee works with other nonprofits to develop one-day, hands-on volunteer opportunities for our members to help other organizations.
- Advocacy - We are a part of the Florida Junior League’s State Public Affairs Committee, which educates us on issues affecting women and children and trains us on how to best advocate the Florida legislature.
At our leadership retreat this year we discussed the importance of collaboration. Individually we can only do so much but when we pool our talents the sum is much greater than the parts. That is what I love most about the Junior League – we are an organization of diverse women that work together to make our community a better place.
But we can’t serve without your help. Please help us help the community. Purchase one – or all! - of our League cookbooks – Sunny Side Up, Made in the Shade, or our newest edition, Paradise Served. Attend our 2nd annual “Vintage Vegas” Casino event on October 16th. Sign up for the 11th annual Riverwalk Run and enjoy some exercise on a beautiful course along the New River and Rio Vista neighborhood. With your help we will continue our mission of promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mary Lou Ruderman
2010 – 2011 President, Junior League of Greater Fort Lauderdale
