Not much.
KITK programs typically take place in the spring. Halloween, well, you know.
KITK focuses on helping children make healthy choices about food and nutrition. Halloween, well, you know.
KITK is in its sixth straight year at more than 200 Junior Leagues. Halloween has been around a lot longer.
We won’t tell you again that the average American consumes 25 pounds of candy each year, much of which is consumed by kids (particularly at Halloween!).
We also won’t suggest that you try to keep your kids away from trick-or-treating.
And we won’t ask you to …

Well, we have one now. October 24 is the first annual Food Day in the United States. Sponsored by an advocacy group called Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Food Day organization “seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way.”
Funny thing is, Junior Leagues have been on this track for a long while. A hundred years …

That’s a question many people who volunteer their time and talent have asked, at one time for another.
In answering that question, at least at The Junior League, you need to look at a longer perspective than just what we did today, last month or last year. Take just one important focus issue for Leagues throughout our 110-history: literacy, particularly for children.
More than half of our 292 Leagues focus on literacy and related educational and knowledge-sharing programs that provide crucial resources to children and others in need. While the programs vary …

. . .that knows no borders. Today, around the world, there are more people held in slavery than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. The United Nations estimates that 12 million people worldwide are exploited through forced labor and the commercial sex trade, and in the U.S. alone, one hundred thousand minors are believed to be victims of sexual exploitation.
What are you going to do about it?
 
Learn
Find out more about the problem of modern-day slavery and how you can help to eradicate it:
Government Resources

United States Department of Justice
Characteristics …

Sure. Next question.
Well, the next question is, what can we, as a volunteer organization and as individuals, do to achieve that worthy goal?
With the approach of Child Health Day, an annual federal observance day that falls on the first Monday in October, maybe it’s time to ponder that question. And, as always, a good place to start is by looking at what individual Junior Leagues are doing.
Helping kids who need it, of course, has been an essential component of our mission since 19-year-old debutante Mary Harriman founded The Junior League 110 years …

A Rutgers University freshman jumps to his death off the George Washington Bridge after an intimate moment with a romantic partner is recorded and broadcast over the Internet by his roommate. A 13-year-old girl hangs herself in her bedroom closet after being slandered on Myspace by a friend, the friend’s parent, and the parent’s employee who collectively pretend to be a male peer in order to befriend her. Every month the news includes stories of predators posing as teens in order to pursue adolescent boys and girls over the Internet …

It’s still a new idea for many Junior Leagues, but more are now using their own blogs as an additional communications channel to reach members and their communities.
And why not? Blogs are easy and inexpensive to start up with online website software like WordPress, easy to maintain (if you keep up with it!), and sure to impress.
Do Junior Leagues need a blog? That’s really up to them. On the plus side, blogs give you a home for member-focused content so you don’t have to clog up your website. They complement …

The Junior League of Napa-Sonoma sent out that Tweet at a little after 1:30 p.m. PDT on August 17.
Within minutes, retweets started coming in from all over The Association. The answers to that question tell us a lot about today’s League – and today’s League members.
Below we’ve captured the Twitter thread in its entirety just for our readers.

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Three months after the devastating tornado that hit Joplin, MO in May, survivors are still picking up the pieces and putting them back together. But life goes on, and one important facet of life in any town is the first day of school. And even though six of Joplin’s 18 public schools were wrecked in the storm, and three other schools need to undergo major repairs, school opened on schedule this year.
Because there isn’t a Junior League in Joplin, the Junior League of Kansas City, Missouri stepped in to help …

Like many community-focused nonprofit organizations, many Junior Leagues around the country offer graduating seniors a chance to apply for a merit-based scholarship. While students typically need high academic credentials to qualify, one other thing makes a successful candidate stand out: a commitment to hands-on, focused community service. We call it “voluntarism.”
For example, the Junior League of Morristown has awarded 112 scholarships totaling over $155,000 since starting its Voluntarism Scholarships in 1986 as a gift to the community as part of JLM’s 50th anniversary celebration. Scholarships are awarded based on the …