Consistent with its Position Statements and Mission, Vision, and Purpose Statements, the Junior League of Jackson uses an Issue-Based Community Impact Model to select and evaluate its community projects. This model requires the League to identify critical community needs and to place its volunteers and project funds exclusively or primarily in those areas to maximize its effectiveness in improving the community.

The League has identified the following community needs:

• Providing access to essential needs: Ensuring basic physiological requirements are met so students are better equipped to succeed in the classroom.
• Enhancing academic achievement: Supporting educational success through resources, tutoring, and mentoring to improve academic performance and engagement, especially with literacy.
• Supporting healthy living and mental well-being: Equipping students to make healthy choices that support their physical and emotional well-being, including how to have a growth mindset and foster healthy relationships while addressing toxic stress, bullying, abuse, and neglect, and supporting safe spaces.

Our three impact areas point to one common goal: To support Pre-K-5th grade children and their caregivers in the Jackson area to increase student success. By focusing our efforts on these three key impact areas, the League can help make a meaningful and measurable difference in the lives of those we serve.