Community Award

The Community Award was established in 1998 with the intended purpose to annually recognize an organization that makes an impact in the community and that reflects the mission and vision of Junior League of Duluth.

Congratulations to this year’s Community Award Winner!

 2026 The Duluth Center for Women & Children

The Duluth Center for Women & Children supports community initiatives to ensure that children living in poverty have abundant opportunities to lead economically secure and productive lives, regardless of the circumstances in which they are born and raised. The focus of the Duluth Center for Women & Children is to address the impact adversity has on children and families with attention to quality childcare & education, encouraging empowerment through building economic stability, and sustaining hope through supporting community safety.

 

Previous Community Awards

2025 Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative

2024 PAVSA

2023 First Witness

2022  First Ladies of the Hillside

2021  Duluth NAACP

2020  Community Action Duluth

2019  American Indian Community Housing Organization (AICHO)

2018  Damiano Center

2017   Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank

2016   Zeitgeist Center for Arts & Community

2015   Duluth Community Garden Program

2014   Life House

2013   Chester Bowl Improvement Club

2012   Seeds of Success

2011   Life House

2010   Woodland Hills

2009   Safe Haven

2008   Safe Haven

2007   Hartley Nature Center

2006   Teen Closet

2005   Women in Construction

2004   Boys and Girls Clubs of Duluth

2003   First Witness

2002   Damiano Center

2001   Little Treasures

2000   Bethany Crisis Center

1999   YWCA

1998   Domestic Abuse Intervention Project