Interested in a year-long partnership with ongoing and consistent volunteer support?

JLGS is accepting applications! Please apply by May 15!

For a year-long partnership:
DOWNLOAD the 2024-2025 Community Partner Application

Community Partner Cycle 2024-2025 (August-May) – Year-Long Partners:*

• May 15, 2024: Applications due by May 15.

• June 2024: Notification of awardees will take place June 2024.

• Projects may begin as early as August 2024.

*Timeline is subject to change.

Interested in partnering for one (1) specific event that needs volunteers?

For a single-event partnership:
DOWNLOAD the 2024-2025 “Done-in-a-Day” Project Application

Proposals and any questions may be submitted electronically to communitypartners@grandstrand.jl.org

Community Projects:
Description and Selection Criteria

The proposed project should:

• Specific details of how the proposed project will align with at least one of the four Community Pillars of the Junior League

of the Grand Strand: Youth Advocacy, Health Initiatives, Food and Nutrition Security, and Housing Advocacy.

• Identify a project goal that includes both significant volunteer participation from League members and a monetary

contribution from the JLGS. Project goal may include a volunteer-only commitment.

• Involve well-defined volunteer opportunities that will be performed and funded within a specific time frame, commencing no

sooner than August 1, 2024, and ending no later than May 1, 2025.

• Provide for collaboration between the Junior League of the Grand Strand, and one or more registered 501(C)(3) nonprofit

organizations in good standing with the Office of the South Carolina Secretary of State.

• Goals and objectives of the project.

• Anticipated tasks needed to accomplish those goals, including number of volunteers, hours, and description of volunteer

tasks and training requirements, if any.

• A project timeline.

• Plan for measuring the impact of the project.

• A thorough budget encompassing all aspects of the project, as well as additional revenue requirements above the Junior

League’s commitment and anticipated sources of that additional revenue.

• A specific person or team of people in your organization who will work with a Junior League representative to organize and

implement the project and who will provide an assessment of the project to the Junior League.

• A copy of your organization’s most recent audited financial statement

• A brief summary statement of past projects undertaken in collaboration with the Junior League of the Grand Strand, if any.

• A brief summary statement regarding your organization’s experience in other collaborations with local nonprofits, including

how those experiences have affected your expectations for future partnerships.

• What your organization expects the Junior League of the Grand Strand to bring to this project.

• A brief summary regarding your connection or affiliation to any member of the JLGS, professionally or personally.

Evaluation

All selected projects will be thoroughly reviewed by the Junior League members serving on the Community Project Committee in the normal course of project selection. A Junior League member may contact you to discuss the proposed project in greater detail or to arrange a site visit to your organization. We appreciate your cooperation during this process.

The Junior League will evaluate project proposals based on the following criteria:

• Alignment and support of at least one of our four pillars: Youth Advocacy, Health Initiatives, Food and Nutrition Security, and Housing Advocacy.

• Inclusion of a significant volunteer component, including a description of volunteer tasks and level of commitment (number of hours), days and times volunteers are needed. Please note our members are available for volunteering at various times, but projects with a weekday evening or a weekend day volunteer component have been historically more successful.

• Clarity of the goals and objectives of the project, including a timeline outlining tasks necessary to accomplish project goals and objectives.

• Strength of the plan for measuring the impact of the project.

• Depth of understanding about what the JLGS can bring to the project.

• Demonstration of past experience collaborating with nonprofits, including the JLGS, if applicable.

• Strength of description in regard to how requested funding will be used to fulfill project goals and objectives, if applicable.

The committee will consider how funding the project request fits into the total amount of funding available for all requests.

CLICK HERE to download our Partnership Program document