1920's Community activities included Well Baby Clinics, Baptist Hospital Occupational Therapy Department, YWCA, and the Girl Scouts. Members gave 2 hours a week of their time to a specific group. Key fund-raisers. Revel and Mah Jong Balls, Follies. Provisional course not yet in existence.
1930's Community activities included initiation of the Volunteer Bureau and City Hospital Occupational Therapy Department. Emphasis on fund-raising. Key activities were Rummage Sales, Balls and sponsored editions of the Courier Journal and the Follies.
1940's Volunteer activities primarily focused on the war effort - USO, War Bonds, Nurses Aid, etc. Many members worked in war plants at full-time jobs from assembly line production to plant protection. Night meetings were offered to accommodate working members. In 1945, 15 of the 18 Board positions were vacant due to the war effort. The first JLL Yearbook was published. Placement system was established vs. required hours at a particular task. Community activities included founding of the Children's Theater, music scholarships and the Junior Art Gallery. Initiated short term JLL project system that is still in place today. (JLL initiates and develops project and turns over to the community after 3 years for long-term operations).
1950's Spent a great deal of time planning and redefining our purpose. Experienced an increase in transfer members. Began long-term fundraising associations with the Kentucky State Fair Horse Show by publishing the program and with Stewarts organizing a style show. Community projects included Department of Volunteers at Rehabilitation Center, Burn Research Program at Children's Hospital and Recording for the Blind.
1960's Community projects included Drug Abuse Education Program, Hearing Screening Center, Children's Theater Trouping Project and Remedial Reading Mobile Laboratory. Fundraisers included Kentucky State Fair Horse Show Program and Style Show.
1970's Purchased and renovated Stairways. Produced the first JLL cookbook The Cooking Book. Community projects included Iroquois Day Care Center, Stairways, Shelter House, Child Psychiatry Research Center, Arts in Education Program, Kentucky Youth Advocates, Inc. and partners. Fund-raising activities were focused primarily on the Kentucky State Fair Horse Show Program and Style Show.
1980's Experienced many membership changes due to changing roles of women. Majority of members work outside of home. Provisional members are older. Admission policy changed to one proposer and 4 endorsers. Experienced large growth in membership. Majority of meetings were held in evenings due to changes in members' lifestyles. Community activities included Ronald McDonald House, CASPAR, Metazoo, Kidspace, Westport Middle School Computer Project, Youth Career Development and Kids on the Block. Ended relationship with the Kentucky State Fair Horse Show. Published new cookbook edition Cordon Bluegrass.
1990's Changed membership requirements to support changes in lifestyles, etc. Permitted all community activities to count as placement and reduced the number of General Training Session requirements. Re-established the Placement Advisor System. Developed a Board Development Training Series to train JLL members and other non-profit groups on how to be effective Board members. Initiated 5-Year Strategic Plan that will effectively position the JLL for the 21st century. Changed the criteria for membership to allow 1 Active to propose with no endorsements required. Surveyed the membership again in 95-96 and developed the next 5-Year Strategic Plan. Community projects include Playscape, SOAR, Sister to Sister, Junior Jesters, "Done-in-a-Day", Habitat for Humanity, The Family Place, Home of the Innocents, Cabbage Patch Settlement House, Kidspace, Interactive Art Gallery at the J.B. Speed Museum, Portland Pride, and Woman to Woman. Primary fundraisers include the Showhouse, CordonBluegrass Cookbook, the American Girls Fashion Show and Tea, Oxmoor Steeplechase and the JLL Scarf.
2000's Sold Stairways and established new headquarters; established a three-year strategic plan; changed advisory active status to be more flexible; deleted the proposer requirement; combined Recording and Corresponding Secretary positions; Celebrated the 80th Anniversary of the Junior League of Louisville and the 100th Anniversary of the Association of Junior Leagues International; Community projects include CASA, Dating Violence, Done in a Day, Keep in Touch, Louisville Girls Leadership Summit, Maryhurst, Noogieland & Noogiefest (Gilda's Club), RunWild! and Race for the Cure. Primary fundraisers include the JLL scarf, Splendor in the Bluegrass, Cordonbluegrass, Radko ornaments, Blooming Deals, Brightest Star Community Volunteer Awards Dinner,Hollydays and Two of a Kind.
