Palos Verdes Junior Women's Club

The Palos Verdes Junior Women’s Club supports charities which provide community enrichment, critical needs, crisis intervention and prevention, support, and public services. We also award scholarships to worthy, local graduating high school seniors entering their first year of college or university and to returning scholarship recipients still in good standing. Charities are selected after a thorough investigation of their financial need and community impact.  Focus is placed on groups that address the needs of Women and Children in Crisis.  Philanthropies are decided each year by vote of the General Membership at the November General Meeting.

Exceptional Children’s Foundation:  Provides comprehensive therapy and education for children under 3 years old who have been diagnosed as developmentally delayed, multiply handicapped, or “at risk,” along with extensive family support services such as an emergency pantry, crisis intervention, and social work and advocacy services.

Harbor Interfaith Services:  Provides homeless and working poor families with emergency shelter, food, job placement, advocacy, transitional housing, childcare and support services. 

Los Angeles Challenge: Provides educational scholarships for economically disadvantaged families who are highly motivated to provide their children a quality K-12 education as a means of breaking the cycle of poverty.

New Life Advocacy (NLA):  Provides direct court advocacy services for victims of domestic violence who have children, representing them through custody dispute conciliation and presentation of their cases in court.  Prevents mothers from losing custody to their batterers and prevents the re-victimization of these underserved victims of domestic violence.

Rainbow Services:  Provides a comprehensive range of services to women and children victimized by domestic violence including a 24-hour hotline, confidential emergency and transitional shelters, counseling, children’s activities, and support services, focusing on ending the cycle of family violence. 

St. Peter & St. Paul Poverty Program:  Provides subsistence services including nutritional food, clothing, blankets, and medical and dental services for people living 300% or more below the government poverty guidelines with an emphasis on helping babies, young children, expectant mothers, and the working poor.

SHAWL (Support for Harbor Area Women’s Lives):  Provides substance abuse treatment within a supportive residential living program.  Offers the South Bay’s only continuum of care designed to foster sustained sobriety and progress towards emotional and financial independence with success rates rivaling the best treatment facilities. 

South Bay Children’s Health Center Association:  Provides dental services to children and youth ages 18 months through 24 years as well as a child guidance – mental health clinic for youths through 18 years of age that come from low and moderate income families in the South Bay Communities. 

Toberman Neighborhood Center:  Provides to their neighboring community, 97% of whom live in poverty, programming that helps people move from poverty to self-sufficiency.  Their goals include creating motivated, life-long learners; strengthening family units and promoting urban peace via youth tutoring, nutrition and athletic programs, gang prevention and emergency services.