Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award
The purpose of the Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award is to recognize League projects that concretely illustrate the Junior League tradition of achieving significant community impact through collaboration. Successful community impact is rooted in a League’s ability to respond creatively to needs in a community that are unmet or underserved through the inspired efforts of Junior League members as powerful leaders for community change. The program must achieve long-lasting measurable results that are significantly the result of the skilled work of trained volunteers working in partnership with community agencies.The award will recognize up to two Junior Leagues each of whom will receive $10,000.
2018 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Cincinnati
Refugee families are often some of the most overlooked groups in any community. The Junior League of Cincinnati saw a huge need to close the gap between the services being provided and refugees’ immediate and long-term needs.
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2018 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Lufkin
For years, many different groups in Angelina County, TX had sponsored a back-to-school supply giveaway to provide backpacks, school supplies and health screenings to families in need, allowing under-resourced students to start the school year on an equal footing with other students. However, with all of the different events being held all over the county it made for a huge duplication of services and an inefficient use of resources.
The JLL consulted with other service agencies in the community, visited other school-readiness projects, and began formulating the plan for its fully centralized Back to School Bonanza.
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2017 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Orange County, CA
Foster care has long been an important focus for the Junior League of Orange County, as it has been for many other Leagues.
But what JLOCC has achieved over the last decade demonstrates what can happen when a League thinks long term…and big.
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2017 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Tulsa
The Department of Justice says that Oklahoma incarcerates more women, per capita, than any other state in the nation. Alarmed by that statistic, the Junior League of Tulsa took action.
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2016 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Collin County
Juvenile crime is a problem with far reaching effects for the youth, family and communities where they live. The JLCC has partnered with the Collin County Juvenile Probation Services (Juvenile Probation Services) to provide selected first time, nonviolent youth a structured mentoring program that specifically addresses behavior that will equip them with the tools to be successful after they are released from probation.
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2016 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Phoenix
In 2011, Arizona was named the 35th most obese state, with an obesity rate that has doubled over the last 15 years. This led the Junior League of Phoenix to believe that something needed to be done with regards to obesity prevention and nutrition education. As a result, the Junior League of Phoenix's Kids in the Kitchen initiative was born.
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2015 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Boca Raton
A few years ago, the League was moved by the finding that one in three families nationally are unable to provide diapers for their children and that more than two hundred thousand families living in their very own community needed them on a regular basis.
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2015 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Fort Worth
The Junior League of Fort Worth found a partner in a nonprofit called Opening Doors for Women in Need whose central mission is to empower women to become independent providers for their families.
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2014 COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD WINNER
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The Junior League of Phoenix
The Junior League of Phoenix won this year’s Award for Community Impact for taking on the dire state of early childhood education in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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2013 Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of Napa-Sonoma
For its efforts to ease the burdens of youth aging out of foster care, an issue it’s been working on since 2006, The Junior League of Napa-Sonoma won the 2013 Community Impact Award.
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2012 Community Impact Award Winner
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The Junior League of New Orleans
The Junior League of New Orleans serves as a model of civic leadership after the disaster of Katrina, filling the pipeline of not-for-profit leaders with qualified women through its signature program Get on Board.
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