{"id":12273,"date":"2015-04-07T14:41:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T18:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=12273"},"modified":"2015-04-07T14:41:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T18:41:31","slug":"junior-league-welcomes-new-actives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2015\/04\/07\/junior-league-welcomes-new-actives\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior League welcomes new actives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JLFM-Fall-2014-Provisional-Class.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12274\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JLFM-Fall-2014-Provisional-Class.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"271\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (April 7, 2015) \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlfm.org\" target=\"_blank\">Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc.<\/a> recently welcomed 20 provisional members to active status.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->These newest active members include Felicia Bethea, Lesley Burkert, Kathryn Clark, Marti Derow, Jennifer Dooley, Daisy Ellis, Elizabeth Hardy, Alexis Hatton, Elise Hendrickson, Edie Jackson, Elyse Joyce, Christieann McCabe, Kerry Pirrone, Melody Porter, Kara Sajdak, Colleen Schumann, Alyssa Smith, Erin Snead, Jessica Stone and Katie Szynal.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0member\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0Association of\u00a0Junior\u00a0Leagues\u00a0International,\u00a0Inc., the\u00a0Junior\u00a0League\u00a0of\u00a0Fort\u00a0Myers,\u00a0Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit\u00a0organization founded in 1966 and made up of\u00a0women\u00a0committed to promoting\u00a0voluntarism, developing the potential of\u00a0women\u00a0and improving\u00a0the\u00a0community\u00a0through the\u00a0effective\u00a0action\u00a0and leadership of\u00a0trained volunteers.\u00a0Its\u00a0purpose\u00a0is exclusively\u00a0educational and\u00a0charitable.<\/p>\n<p>Twice a year, the Junior League welcomes interested women to join its Provisional Class. Classes last 14 weeks during which time provisional members become familiar with JLFM\u2019s mission, vision and organizational structure by watching the board, councils and committees in action. They also become informed about the Junior League\u2019s community projects and how it supports the Southwest Florida community by participating and developing a community service project, assist with fundraising activities, learn about project planning and implementation, and gain hands-on volunteer experience.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the class, provisional members become active JLFM members with all the benefits of full membership. JLFM memberships are open to all women aged 21 and older of all races, religions and national origin who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to voluntarism.<\/p>\n<p>The JLFM is also a granting organization, providing mini-grants to organizations throughout Southwest Florida\u2019s five-county area to programs that create better life outcomes for our area\u2019s youth. Since 1966, the Junior League has contributed more than one million hours and more than $1 million to community projects and programs.<\/p>\n<p>For\u00a0more\u00a0information,\u00a0call\u00a0239-277-1197 or\u00a0visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jlfm.org\/\">www.jlfm.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS,\u00a0Fla. (April 7, 2015) \u2013 The Junior League of Fort Myers, Inc. recently welcomed 20 provisional members to active status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[4267,4268,2590,4269,4270,4271,4272,4273,4274,4275,4276,4277,4278,4279,4280,663,4281,4282,4283,3088,664,4284,4285,2403,4286,4287,4288,4289,4290,4291,4292,4293,16,1046,2348,1297,2882,4217,2595,4294,19,2542,1278,4219,2596],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}