The AJLI Award for Community Impact

The purpose of the AJLI Award for Community Impact (formerly known as 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 2022 AJLI Award for Community Impact

  • The Junior League of Wilmington, DE

    Stand Up. Period.

    The Junior League of Wilmington, DE

    In fewer than three years and during a global pandemic, the Junior League of Wilmington has made the issue of period equity a priority in Delaware through direct service, advocacy, and coalition building.

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The 2021 AJLI Award for Community Impact

2020 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner

2020 COLGATE BRIGHT SMILES, BRIGHT FUTURES COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD WINNER

  • Big Shots

    Big Shots

    The Junior League of Charlotte

    For over 23 year years, in partnership with the Mecklenburg County Public Health Department and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System, the Junior League of Charlotte's Big Shots program has been providing children with the free immunizations and the health screenings they need to enroll and stay in school.

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2019 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner

  • Cedar Rapids-Bridging the G.A.P

    Bridging the G.A.P

    The Junior League of Cedar Rapids

    The Junior League of Cedar Rapids sprang into action upon discovering the harsh realities youth aging out of the foster care system face. The League found a need to teach skills to the youth, who are dramatically more at risk of exploitation, homelessness and addiction. They developed the Bridging the G.A.P project.

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2019 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner

  • Junior League of Wichita-Baby Mobile

    Combating Child Abuse

    The Junior League of Wichita

    In 2008, the Wichita area experienced a surge in child fatalities. Outraged, determined and compelled to take action, the Junior League of Wichita members started work on a project that would combat child abuse through spreading awareness and intervention.

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2018 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner

  • RefugeeConnect

    RefugeeConnect

    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

  • Back to School Bonanza

    Back to School Bonanza

    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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2016 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner

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    JuMP

    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

2015 Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Community Impact Award Winner

  • Diaper Bank

    Diaper Bank

    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

2014 COMMUNITY IMPACT AWARD WINNER

  • ROCKETS

    ROCKETS

    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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The 2021 AJLI Award for Community Impact

2012 Community Impact Award Winner

  • Get on Board

    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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