Pivoting, or making a significant change in your career or life, can be both exciting and terrifying. It requires courage, vision and the willingness to step outside your comfort zone. On the most recent Training Tuesday, moderator Caroline Flowers gathered three businesswomen who shared their experiences and advice on pivoting. Here are some of the highlights. Shellisa Multrie “boomeranged,” as…
Tag: JLC Spotlight
JLC Highlighted on Carolina Impact TV Show
The Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) was featured on PBS.org as part of its Carolina Impact weekly programming on April 11, 2023. Host Beatrice Thompson highlighted JLC members and the League’s impact. Members of the JLC were shown volunteering during our Week of Service last November, making bookmarks for community partner Promising Pages in the program’s opening. One of…
Highlighting JLC Community Impact Through The Years: Part 1, 1924-1960
By: Mallory Pearce Originally the Welfare League in 1924, the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) committed significant financial and volunteer resources to local agencies and projects that focused on the most critical needs of the Charlotte community. In its infancy, the JLC saw the need to support local orphaned and underprivileged children. 1926 brought exciting changes. After joining the…
March GMM: Belonging is Everybody’s Business
A virtual format for March’s General Membership Meeting allowed the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) to join with the Junior League of Winston-Salem, Inc. (JLWS) for an energetic meeting on belonging with special guest Blaire G. Hervey, owner of The Corporate Strategist. JLC business was covered in the first half of the meeting then the two chapters converged for…
JLC in an Elevator Pitch
By: Hayden Pigott When asked about the Junior League of Charlotte, members can espouse the virtues in hours and hours of praise — they joined and stayed because they love it, after all. But The CRIER asked members to give us their elevator pitch for the League. How would they describe it to a person they were convincing to join? Or to someone…
January GMM: Change in the New Year
The Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) had a packed agenda at its General Membership Meeting (GMM) at Central Piedmont Community College’s Parr Center Theater on January 23. Three items were up for votes, including community partners for the new focus area for the JLC, a new slate of leaders and an edit to the mission statement for the JLC.…
Member Monday: Spencer Lash
Spencer Lash has given her all to the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) from the moment she joined as a Provisional in 2017. She has helped with The Happenings, progressed to Communications Manager, then inaugural Chief of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with a seat on the Board of Directors. She currently serves as the Executive Vice President-Elect. Most notably,…
November GMM: Week of Service and Thanks
In lieu of a traditional General Membership Meeting, The Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) continued its custom of Week of Service and Thanks from November 14 to November 18. “We had opportunities to gather and give back to our community during this week,” said JLC President Christina Gratrix. More than 250 members volunteered with half a dozen local partner…
Training Tuesday 11/1/2022: Personal Branding with Blue Tide Creative
What exactly is a personal brand? That’s the question the Junior League of Charlotte, Inc. (JLC) aimed to answer at the most recent Training Tuesday with guest speaker and owner of Blue Tide Creative, Erin Breeden. The formal definition of personal branding, according to Erin, is “the conscious and intentional effort to create and influence public perception of an individual…
Member Monday: Jennifer Emerson
Early Life and Background Born in Connecticut and raised in Winston-Salem by a physicist dad and librarian mom, Jennifer recollects a full-house with three dogs and her younger sister. Growing up, she loved playing soccer and volleyball, and her biggest hero was her maternal grandmother. Her grandmother was widowed in her 40s, but continued to raise six kids by herself.…