100 ACTS OF SERVICE

Join us in February as we demonstrate our love for Birmingham through community service. Inspired by our friend and Community Vice President Lee Ann Petty who passed away December 30, 2020, the Junior League of Birmingham is coordinating service opportunities for our members and our friends in the community. Lee Ann loved Birmingham and dedicated her life to serving others, inspiring us and so many more to follow in her footsteps in service. Look through the list below, find something that resonates with you and sign-up! More opportunities will be added throughout the month, so bookmark this page and come back for other ways to serve.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Martin Luther King, Jr.

ECONOMIC SECURITY AND FINANCIAL STABILITY

Junior League-led Projects:

Tackle Food Insecurity with JLB and Youth Towers:
The JLB is collecting shelf-stable food for Youth Towers, a local non-profit supporting homeless and high risk youth ages 19-26. Purchase items from our Amazon wish list and have it shipped directly to the JLB, or bring your donation to the JLB between 8a-4p, Monday through Friday. Throughout February we are collecting pantry goods (small bags of sugar and flour, cooking oil, peanut butter), individual snacks (crackers, breakfast bars, fruit bars), dry goods (pasta, noodles), and snap-top non-perishable foods (soup, canned meats, fruit, vegetables).
Link for the Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/36VN050VXD7LJ?ref_=wl_share

Diaper and Feminine Product Drive with JLB Diaper Bank
Sat., March 6 from 8-11 a.m. — The Diaper Bank will be collecting diapers, period products and women’s underments in honor of Women’s History Month. It is a drive-through and volunteers will take products from cars. Participants will be entered in a drawing for a prize. Event Location: JLB Building, 2212 20th Ave. South, Birmingham, Ala. 35223
Link for the Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/1B1HGZAP4QTU2

Other Community Opportunities:

• Provide a meal at Firehouse Shelter (prepare/purchase and drop-off) with Firehouse Ministries
• Provide lunch for program participants (prepare and deliver or cater) with East Lake Initiative
• Stock the Shelves with a purchase from the Pathways Shelter Amazon wish list
• Be Neighborly – Help an elderly neighbor with minor, exterior home repairs or yard projects
• Stock the Shelves at First Light with items from their Amazon wish list
• Groceries for Seniors – Offer to buy and deliver groceries to a senior in your neighborhood or ask at your local supermarket
• Sponsor a meal for a program participant at Foundry Ministries
• Sponsor a room (bathroom, kitchen) by purchasing the needed items for a a woman exiting homelessness
• Volunteer to be a mentor for one hour each week through East Lake Initiative
• Volunteer to help with a restoration project to restore and revitalize indoor or outdoor areas of the Foundry Ministries property

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

Junior League-led Projects:

Help Fight COVID-19 with JLB and UAB:
JLB is organizing volunteers to help at the community vaccination sites in Jefferson County. Volunteers work outside in 3 to 5-hour shifts as runners, vaccine staff assistants, and helping with registration. The schedule is updated weekly on Monday, so if all slots are full, check back at the beginning of each week.
Link to Sign Up Genius for the Hoover Met location: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/communityvolunteers
Link to Sign Up Genius for the Parker High School: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/parkervolunteers

Valentine’s Card-Making for Collat Jewish Family Services Senior Grocery Devlivery and McCoy Day Center:
Little Leaguers can spread a little love this February to seniors at McCoy and Collat Jewish Family Services food recipients by making cards. Cards are due Friday, Feb. 19. Our young volunteers can pick up blank cards provided by the League in a bin outside the building after Tuesday, Feb. 9 or use their own supplies. Finished cards will be dropped off in a bin outside the building.

Other Community Opportunities:

• Home Care Kits – Create home care kits for Meels on Wheels clients
• Make Placemats – Create placemats that can be used by homebound seionrs
• Joy in Bloom – Deliver flowers to a hospice center or nursing home for residents to enjoy
• Be a Blood Donor – Donate blood or plasma
• Stock Food Pantry – Donate non-perishable food items to a local food pantry
• Play Time – Donate soccer balls to a local after school program, homeless shelter for women and children, or homeless teen day program
• Keep Birmingham Beautiful – Organize a neighborhood clean-up withe the Keep Birmingham Beautiful program
• Pick It Up – Pick up trash in your neighborhood while walking for exercise
• Food Delivery – Volunteer to deliver meals to Meals on Wheels clients
• COVID-19 Hotline – Volunteer to help with the COVID-19 hotline
• Pack Meals – Volunteer to pack and load meals for Meals on Wheels
• Spread Kindness – Write and decorate cards for the residents of Hope Lodge
• Spread Kindness – Write and decorate cards for the residents at Ronald McDonald House
• Provide a meal – Donate a meal for residents
• Stock the Shelves – Purchase items from the Ronald McDonald House Amazon wish list

EDUCATION AND CULTURE

Junior League-led Projects:

To Be Announced Soon!

Other Community Opportunities:

• Book Nooks – Build and install a Book Nook in a community identified by Better Basics (make sure to get permission from the par/neighborhood/business
• Stock the Shelves – Purchase an item (or 2!) for the Lieteracy Council off their Amazon wish list
• Stock the Shelves – Purchase items on The Bell Center wish list
• Books for Better Basics – Purchase needed books for Better Basics community programs from their Amazon wish list 
• Welcome to Vulcan – Volunteer to be a docent or ambassador at Vulcan Park and Museum
• Reading is Fun – Volunteer to be a virtual reader or reading tutor with Better Basics
• Science is Fun – Volunteer to help clean exhibit halls at McWane Science Center
• Art Supplies Drive – Help stock the Glenwood Autism and Behaviour Center new Arts Center

SAFETY AND CRISIS

Junior League-led Projects:

Feminine Product Drive with JLB Diaper Bank
Sun., Feb. 21 from 1-3 p.m. — The Diaper Bank and Go The Extra Mile are collecting period products such as sanitary pads and tampons for One Place. It is drive-through and volunteers will get products from cars. We’ll have a sweet treat to provide and participants can be entered in a drawing for a prize. Event Location: JLB Building, 2212 20th Ave. South, Birmingham, Ala. 35223
Link for the Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/1B1HGZAP4QTU2

Other Community Opportunities:

• Show Gratitude to First Responders – Deliver coffee, breakfast or lunch to first responders at your local fire department or police department