NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 26, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Junior League of Orange County, California, Inc., (JLOCC) will hold its annual Community Forum, 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at JLOCC headquarters, 5140 Campus Drive, Newport Beach. Community service leaders are invited to attend to learn about potential opportunities for collaboration and to share their perspectives regarding the unmet needs that face the county's population. To RSVP, call 949-263-3785 or email jlocc@sbcglobal.net.
The JLOCC is looking for projects to which it will lend its financial and volunteer support to improve the community. Past efforts range from helping to found the Volunteer Center of Orange County, New Directions for Women, and the Orange County Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program, to issuing a challenge grant that supported the establishment of the Orangewood Children's Home. Currently, the JLOCC is partnering with Orangewood Children's Foundation to develop programming for its anticipated Orangewood Children's Foundation Academy for high school foster youth, with the potential to include support for emancipated foster youth and engage the senior citizens of our community in the project.
Funds raised annually by the JLOCC are also used to benefit charitable projects including the Orange County Bar Foundation, Orange County Children's Therapeutic Arts Center, Casa Teresa Inc., Girls Inc., Bridges to Higher Learning, and Bear Hugs. The organization also awards thousands of dollars in grants and scholarships each year. As a solely educational and charitable organization, the JLOCC's trained volunteers actively support the community through collaboration with organizations that promote and support the health, safety and education of women and children.
About the Junior League of Orange County, California, Inc.
The Junior League of Orange County, California, Inc., is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and the leadership of trained volunteers. JLOCC's purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. A 501(c)(3) organization, the JLOCC reaches out to women of all races, religions, and national origins. Originally founded in 1956 as the Newport Harbor Service League, the JLOCC is a member organization of the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. To learn more about the JLOCC, call (949) 261-0823 or visit www.jlocc.org.