Current Projects

 

Done-In-A-Day Projects

Each year, JLCV responds to needs in the community by researching, organizing, and participating in short-term volunteer projects that can be accomplished in just one day.  Projects respond to a variety of community needs as they arise. Recently completed “Done-in-a-Day” projects include the following:

 

COTS: To get a start on holiday cheer, members spend the weekend at City Market Co-Op in Burlington, VT to help customers select trees, trim them and get the prepared for transport. The proceeds from this event go to support COTS and with each tree purchased the Intervale Center in Burlington plants a tree through their Conservation Nursery program to protect Vermont’s waters.

2023 Christmas Tree Sale

 

Feed My Starving Children: Members receive training and then help with re-packaging various dry goods and vitamins that are distributed to countries around the world.

 

 

Feeding Chittenden: Members help with the Annual Turkey Drive where they hand out turkeys and deliver groceries to local families.

2023 Annual Turkey Drive

Girls on the Run: Starting in 2021, members have assisted with various Girls on the Run activities including helping with assembling gifts bags for the participants and donors, assisting with the annual 5K run with check-in, set up, cheering, and clean up.

2024 gift bag preparation and 2023 5K

The Josh Pallotta FundMembers help assist with running the merchandise table at the annual 11 Bravo launch party held at the 14th Star Brewing company. Proceeds from the merchandise table go to providing Veterans and their families with accessible recreational and wellness activities.

2023 11 Bravo launch party

Junior League: In 2023 the Association of Junior Leagues International launched the inaugural Find the Good Day on September 14th. The purpose of this day is the show that finding the good is not an event; it is a way of life. With positivity and purpose, we can make meaningful changes in our communities, empower women’s leadership, and support each other along the way.  Our members went to various American Red Cross locations around Vermont to donate blood.

 

Make-A-Wish Vermont: Members help out with the annual Vermont-New Hampshire All-Star Hockey Classic. Members help run the merchandise table and sell raffle tickets.

2023 Vermont-New Hampshire All-Star Hockey Classic

Sleep in Heavenly Peace: Members are provided on site training to help transform raw lumber into ready-to-deliver bunk beds. Members help with sawing, sanding, drilling, assembling, staining and branding of the wood.

Members with fellow Vermonter, Luis Guzmán at a 2023 Sleep in Heavenly Peace event.

Spectrum Youth & Family Services: Members gather together and cook meals that serve 25-30 people and bring them to the drop-in center at the Burlington location.

A few of the different meals prepared and delivered by our members in 2023

 

Vermont Connect: Members help process incoming baby equipment and prepare to distribution to community members.

 

Wood 4 Good: One of the JLCV’s newest connections in the community starting in February 2024. Our members will be trained on the organization, the distribution lists and help with other tasks as needed by the organization.