Junior League of Calgary Sustainer Bobbie Sparrow parlayed her experiences in business, philanthropy, and volunteer service into a career in politics, ultimately rising to office in the Canadian Parliament’s House of Commons.
 
“I’m a black and white person,” says Bobbie Sparrow, the spunky 76-year-old who is now an active Sustainer in the Junior League of Calgary, which she joined in 1961 after moving to town from Toronto with her husband. “I’m really honest.”
The simplicity of this self-assessment seems just a tad misleading for the mother of four who was widowed at …

Good question.
It’s no secret that what we call voluntarism is at the heart of what it means to be a Junior League member. We volunteer our time to create lasting community impact. Period.
But the Junior League of Norfolk-Virginia Beach, Inc. has come up with an interesting twist on voluntarism by involving members’ children in a project they can literally get their hands around. It’s called Little Hands, Big Difference.
JLNVB member and Community Vice President Laura Bangor explains: “I was Membership VP last year and we did a focus group asking …

Just ask Olivia Thomas.
Corporate finance executive, single mother, legislative insider, and life-long volunteer, Olivia Thomas has played a variety of impactful roles. Now serving as the executive director of Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC) in Florida’s Sarasota and DeSoto Counties, Thomas attributes her ability to toggle among multiple identities to a single skill set she acquired courtesy of the Junior League of Sarasota where she has volunteered for more than 17 years, ultimately serving as president from 2006 to 2007: civic leadership development and training.
“It was actually …