I feel incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to serve as president this year, as the Junior League of Schenectady and Saratoga Counties celebrates its 80th anniversary.

Little by little, project by project and person by person, we continue to make a difference in the lives of the people we touch. She might be a client of Family and Child Services, the League s first project, which is still assisting the community today. The help she receives from the Homemaker Program enables her to stay in her house. He might be a needy child who received school supplies from our expanded Operation Back to School and Smart Scholars part nerships. He has begun thinking that he could be the first person in his family to graduate college. They might be a disadvantaged family which was able to shop for free new clothes as a result of our spring provisional class work with Bethesda House. Dad was able to get professional clothes to wear to a job that will pay enough for them to rent their own apartment.
 
The training and opportunities I have received throughout my time in the League have made me a better volunteer, a better leader, and a better person.  I have met the most amazing women and had many of the best experiences of my life with the League. And for that reason. I hope she is you. The day is short and the task is great, but the legacy we have been given is enormous and future is ours.   

                                                Welcome,
                                                Julie White Eklund, President (2011-2012)



Mission
The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.