Junior League of Bronxville Awards $8K in Community Grants

Since 1948, ) has been an active and vocal women’s volunteer organization in Southern Westchester, dedicated to fighting hunger and improving nutrition in its service areas of Bronxville, Eastchester, Mount Vernon, Tuckahoe, and Yonkers.

The Discretionary Fund awards $8,000 in grants to local community organizations each year, to which they received a whopping 27 grant applications in 2012 – about double what they received in each of the last three years.

The JLB focused on applications dealing with nutrition and health and on assisting nonprofit organizations with which the League had not had prior involvement.  The following ten grants were awarded: 

• Westhab - Toward a course on vegetable gardening, nutrition and health for low-income middle and high school youth
• The Guidance Center - For healthy snacks to supplement a tutoring program  at the Mount Vernon High School
• MVP Basketball Camp - For two scholarships to MVP summer basketball camp for youths from Mount Vernon or Yonkers
• - For seminars for 25 low-income seniors on health and nutrition
• St. Peter’s Child Care Center - For digital cameras and memory cards to help implement a proven early childhood curriculum
• Cancer Support Team - For nutritional supplements for medically under-served cancer patients
• ARCS - For a food pantry in ARC’s Mosaic Center in Mount Vernon that provides HIV and AIDS-related services to low-income clients
• Meals on Wheels - For a hot soup program for housebound, elderly clients in Bronxville
• Westchester Childrens’ Museum - To conduct an educational program focused on heart health and nutrition in a Yonkers social service program serving low-income children
• Concordia Conservatory - To purchase musical instruments and props for an early-childhood music class at the Andrus Early Learning Center in Tuckahoe

JLB members donate over 19,000 hours of community service annually and work with hosts of community programs and agencies.  Through their charitable work, JLB members donate over $542,000 worth of volunteer salaries.  As a 501(c)3 charity, its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.