Our Past Projects

Prior to joining the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI), our organization was known as the Service Club of Kalamazoo. Some of the Service Club’s earliest projects included distributing anti-TB posters and raising funds for a community nursery school.

In 1930, the Service Club joined the Kiwanis Club in supporting Pretty Lake Vacation Camp, started years earlier by Kalamazoo’s Eddie Desenberg – this partnership with the Kiwanis Club continues to the present day. Since the camp’s first summer, more than 30,000 campers have enjoyed a character-building and enriching camp experience in the woods and shores of Pretty Lake.

The innovative projects initiated by our great organization include:

• Able to Play Playground
• Special Delivery
• Kids in the Kitchen (an international initiative started by the Association of Junior League’s International)
• The Cinderella Project
• Done-in-a-Day projects
• Festival of Trees
• Well Baby Clinics at both Borgess and Bronson Hospitals
• Programs at the Child Guidance Clinic
• Christmas Clearance Bureau
• Volunteer Service Bureau (now the Volunteer Center for Greater Kalamazoo)
• Services for the Visually Handicapped
• Christmas Wishbook
• Art in the Schools
• Adult Foster Care
• Walking Through the Years
• Children’s Services Fund
• Kalamazoo County Layette Fund
• The Kalamazoo County Child Abuse and Neglect Council
• Hospital Hospitality House
• Parent Seminars on Teen Pregnancy
• Project Lead
• Woman to Woman
• Children Home Alone
• Very Special Arts
• Parents as Partners in Reading
• MOMobile
• Young Women for Change