Junior League Of Birmingham Presents 100 Acts of Service Campaign

BIRMINGHAM, AL — The Junior League of Birmingham has launched a service campaign to honor the late Leigh Ann Petty, the JLB's community vice president who died Dec. 30. The campaign, "100 Acts of Service," is active through February.

Inspired by an initiative being built by Petty herself, the JLB is coordinating service opportunities for not only Junior League members but the Birmingham community at large. The service areas encompass the JLB’s four impact areas: Education & Culture, Economic Security & Financial Stability, Health & Wellness and Safety & Crisis.

"Lee Ann was the epitome of servant leadership and demonstrated her love for Birmingham through acts of community service whether planting flowers in front of the Ronald McDonald House, serving a meal at Firehouse Shelter, or through her service on numerous nonprofit boards in town," JLB president Toni Leath said. "She inspired us to serve, and I know her story shared through 100 Acts of Service will do the same for others. It’s our privilege to take the project she put her heart behind and use it as a platform to honor her legacy and the impact of the Junior League through service."

Current service opportunities for the 100 Acts of Service initiative can be found below and will be updated as new opportunities are added:

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 the Amazon wish list and have it shipped directly to the JLB, or bring your donation to the JLB between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Throughout February, the JLB is 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). The link for the Amazon wish list can be found here.

Help Fight COVID-19 with JLB and UAB:

The JLB is organizing volunteers to help at the community vaccination sites in Jefferson County. Volunteers work outside in 5-hour shifts as runners, vaccine staff assistants and helping with registration. The schedule is updated weekly, so if all slots are full, patrons can check back at the end of each week. The link to Sign Up Genius can be found here.

Other community service opportunities include providing a meal at Firehouse Shelter with Firehouse Ministries, Stocking the Shelves with a purchase from the Pathways Shelter Amazon wish list, volunteering to be a mentor for one hour each week through East Lake Initiative, volunteering to help with a restoration project to restore and revitalize indoor or outdoor areas of the Foundry Ministries property and more.