By: Diane Berinstein When someone asks me about Rosh Hashanah my first thought is always the pots of honey that I’ll serve to usher in a sweet year! The holiday is not about meals and honey though. It’s a time for deep introspection and reflection, with the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur… Read More
Rx Catering is one Black woman owned and operated business that we chose to showcase this August, National Black Business Month. Read more about owner and JLW member Cheron N. Reed, here: Cheron Reed, a native from the Midwest moved to the DC Metro area after graduating from Florida A&M University (FAMU) in 1998. While… Read More
By: Adeyinka Oyesile Ogunlegan Ahead of this year’s National Book Festival that will be taking place on August 12, 2023, let’s take a look back at last year’s event and the Junior League of Washington (JLW)’s involvement in it. On September 3, 2022, authors, illustrators, and book lovers gathered at Walter E. Washington Convention Center… Read More
By: Heather Callery Meet the Junior League of Washington’s 2022-2023 Shining Stars! JLW leadership has recognized these volunteers as having gone above and beyond in advancing JLW’s mission this League year. From meeting the needs of our community partners and their serviced populations, recruiting and welcoming new members, ensuring JLW’s smooth operation, sharing JLW’s priorities… Read More
By: Maggie Jo Buchanan Many residents of the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area have visited Old Town Alexandria, Virginia and – in between enjoying delicious food and drink, along with some shopping – daydreamed about what life must have been like hundreds of years ago while walking the quaint cobblestone streets. For the volunteers of… Read More
By: Kayleigh Creswell While 7 years of service is the standard requirement to reach sustainer status, many active and sustainer members alike spend more years, if not decades, engaging with the Junior League of Washington. Everyone has their own individual reasons for why they find value in spending their limited free time and energy on… Read More
By: Bailey Oedewald For its 12th year, the Women’s Congressional Softball game returned after its 2020 cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the softball game began as a match between congresswomen and staffers in 2009, it has evolved into a long-standing battle between female congress members and the women of the DC Press Corps,… Read More
By: Robyn Rudish-Laning The current focus of the Junior League of Washington (JLW) on improving literacy in the Washington, DC, area takes on many shapes beyond the image of teaching children to read that often comes to mind. The League’s work with Community Family Life Services (CFLS), a nonprofit that works to help low-income and… Read More
By: Meredith Shields The start of 2022 brought many new things to the Junior League of Washington (JLW) – including the return of in person meetings and the development of a new five year strategic plan that will guide the League through the next half a decade. Though the planning cycle is the same as… Read More
By: Laura Collins This is the second in a two-part post series spotlighting women who met through the League. We hope Jacqueline Frederick-Maturo, Melissa Miller, Rachel Oster, and Kara Roney’s story inspires you and reminds you of the incredible things that happen when women work together. How did you meet? Frederick-Maturo: The four of us… Read More
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