JLLA is kicking off our new year at our first General Meeting! We’re excited about making an impact in our community! #WhyJLLA

Our members are getting excited for our first General Meeting of the year! Lets reconnect to our purpose! #WhyJLLA

Join us for the first Cocktails for a Cause of the year at STK Los Angeles in Westwood! Thursday, August 25, from 6:30P – 9:30P Tickets are $10 online & $15 at the door We will also be having a Projects Drive for school supplies for the Mar Vista Family Center. Plus, STK’s talented bartenders… Read More

This month JLLA’s very own Joy Burkhard, a founder, Executive Director and Board Chair of 2020 Mom, a national nonprofit dedicated to closing gaps in maternal mental health care through convening, collaborating, advocacy and education wrote a blog post for AJLI! The post focuses on depression and anxiety that 80% of mother’s feel after giving birth. Roughly 15% of… Read More

Dr. Banda is founder of the National Association of Business Women in Malawi, lifting women out of poverty through empowerment & our #WCW!

The Junior League of Los Angeles works with Mar Vista Family Center (MVFC) in many capacities, from Done-in-a-Day (DIAD) activities, to our standing arts-based project.  Our project this year is called “Discover You: Around the World”.  For six weeks this fall children learned about a different country, it’s language, food, art, culture, and history.  They… Read More

This #WCW we remember Dorothy Height who focused on the issues of African-American women, including unemployment, illiteracy, and voter awareness.

In the early 1990s, educational researchers and educators Betty Hart and Todd Risley set out to determine why early intervention efforts were failing.  In a groundbreaking study, Hart and Risley measured the number of words addressed to 42 children from diverse socio-economic statuses over a period of 2.5 years.  They found that, by age 3,… Read More

The Junior League of Los Angeles was honored with Heart of Los Angeles’ (HOLA) Community Award this past November at their Holiday of the Heart gala.  We are honored by HOLA’s award and their ongoing commitment to JLLA’s “College 101” workshops, benefitting high school students. Over seven years ago, JLLA and HOLA began meeting to… Read More