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.
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