21st Annual Lunch with the Authors on May 5, 2023 from 11am to 3pm.

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The Junior League of Morristown is pleased to announce its 21st Annual Lunch with the Authors will be held on Friday, May 5. Hosted at the exclusive Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, NJ, our luncheon is an invitation to an uplifting and enchanting afternoon with friends and family benefiting our local community. Doors open at 11am and the event begins with a basket raffle with wine for purchase. Guests will then be seated for an elegant three-course luncheon while they hear remarks from nationally acclaimed authors. Jenny Jackson, author of Pineapple Street, Jean Hanff Korelitz, author of The Latecomer, and Karen Winn, author of Our Little World, will discuss their latest work, answer questions, and sign books before and after the luncheon. The event concludes at 3pm with the announcement of the raffle winners. This special afternoon will provide a philanthropic opportunity to support the Junior League of Morristown including its Scholarship Program, which has awarded over 160 Scholarships totaling more than $270,000 since 2022. For those who cannot attend, please consider a charitable donation.

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Special thanks to our Lunch with the Author sponsors BASF, Laufer, Dalena, Jensen, Bradley, & Doran, LLC, McRae Capital Management, and Peapack Private Wealth Management. We appreciate Amanti Vino for supplying the wine, Fairview Farm & Flowers for supplying the centerpieces, and The Bookworm for supplying books for the event, as well as our volunteer committee members for their time, talent, and treasure.

Our three committees, TEEN (Teen Education Empowerment Network), MHC (Making Healthy Choices), and HH (Helping Hands) have been working hard with community partners to help meet the needs of our community. 

In September of 2020, the TEEN Committee responded to a growing need for backpacks at the start of the school year and donated 80 backpacks to four different community partners.  In October, they worked with the Neighborhood House to support their teens during their “Fitness Week” and packed up 25 fitness kits with resistance bands and healthy snacks.  In November, they provided meal kits and hosted a virtual one-pot cooking class for eight teens at the Neighborhood House. 

In October of 2020, the HH Committee donated more than 1,800 diapers and many miscellaneous baby supplies to Homeless Solutions to help meet the growing needs of their clientele.  In preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday, the committee also donated over 75 food items, 10Pyrex dishes, 10 crockpots, and 3 turkeys to Jersey Battered Women’s Services.  During the month of December, the committee is working with FBI Special Agent Keyla Munoz to support human trafficking victims with a donation drive via Amazon Wish List.  If you would like to support the committee, please visit this link to view the Wish List. 

In September and October, the MHC Committee hosted two events with Grow it Green, a local community partner dedicated to creating sustainable farms and gardens to educate communities on healthy eating and environmental stewardship.  In November, the committee collected and donated over 350lbs of food to the Interfaith Food Pantry to support their Thanksgiving food drive.  Our members also helped prepare Thanksgiving meals and desserts for Interfaith Food Pantry’s clients.  During the month of December, the committee adopted a family through the Salvation Army and has purchased numerous items to support them during the holiday season. 

Scholarship Awards 

Since 1986, the Junior League of Morristown has awarded over $270,000 to High School seniors in Morris & Somerset Counties who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to voluntarism in their school and community. 

For the past 12 years, the JLM began awarding a $2,500 Women Moving Forward scholarship to a woman 40 years of age and older, who is planning to attend or is attending college or trade school after taking time away from school.

We are pleased to continue with the Post-Secondary Education Grant that was created in 2019.

You can learn more and connect to the online applications on our Voluntarism Scholarships page. This year all applications begin through Google forms to simplify submission and review. Deadline for application is March 31, 2023.

Congratulations to 2022-23 award recipients, we wish them well in the next steps of their journeys!

JLM is "All In"

The Junior League, one of the oldest, largest and most effective women’s volunteer organizations in the world, has matured and evolved since it was founded by social activism pioneer Mary Harriman in 1901. 

Strength in numbers: JLM is a part of an international network of 291 Leagues made up of over 150,000 women, in four countries, engaged in life-changing work in their own communities.

The JLM has been working for change within the Morristown community for 81 years!

To learn more about our League, please review our Fact Sheet.

To view our 2018-2019 Annual Report, click here.