In 1948, Junior Service League of Odessa and now as The Junior League of Odessa, Inc.,  made a significant difference in Odessa. Millions of dollars has been raised and returned to the community along with hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours through the efforts of the Junior League of Odessa.

Current Projects

Past Projects

1948-1949
Social Service Index

1950-1959
Art Lecture Series for Public Schools
Art Scholarships – Odessa College
Big Spring State Hospital- Public Address System
Book Mobile
Children’s Symphony Concert
Children’s Theatre Radio and Story Lady
Children’s Theater Workshop
Crippled Children’s Treatment Center Occupational Therapy Room
Dental Clinic
“Focus on Youth” Television Series
“Frontier to Space” TV Series
Medical Center Hospital – Library Cart
Odessa Day Nursery
State Mental Hospital Association
“Strangers” film for ECISD
TCU Opera Ballet Workshop
Tri-County Foster Home
White Pool House Docenting

1960-1969
Arts Lending Library
Art Exhibit – Art Scholarship awarded
Central Park Landscaping
Lecture Series of Behavioral and Social Problem of Children
Odessa Family YMCA – Sound System
Odessa Opportunity Center for Mentally Retarded Children
Opportunity Center with ECISD
Parents’ League of Odessa
Permian Playhouse Community Theatre
Presidential Museum
Sabine Vaccine Drive
Salvation Army Toy Tea
VOLS – Volunteers on Limited Services

1970-1979
Art Linkletter – Speaker
Barbara Johnson Human Resources Center
Children’s Theatre
ECISD transportation for students to attend Children’s Symphony Concerts
Ector County Library- Children’s Department
Emergency Family Services Program
Emergency Shelter Board of Directors
Globe Theater of the Southwest- Children’s Theater
“How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive” film
Rehabilitation Center – HELP- Information, Referral, and Follow-up Services
Juvenile Justice Workshop
Nursery Workshop
Palmer Drug Abuse Program
Parent Effectiveness Training Area Session
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center- Junior League Memorial Speech and Hearing
Wing
Petroleum Museum Docenting
Phyllis Wheatly Day Nursery
Planned Parenthood – Library and Film Resource Center

1980-1989
Abused Children’s Shelter
Adopt a Park Program
APGO- As Parents Grow Older
Art Institute – Garden Workshop
CASA – Court Appointed Special Advocates
Child Service Program
Child’s Play
Community Service Project and Films
Emergency Family Services
Girl’s Club of Odessa
Goals of Odessa
Hospice of Odessa
Kaleidoscope
“Keep off the Grass” Drug Seminar
“Life Skills Training” Network
Odessa Youth Shelter
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center Auxiliary
Presidential Museum Docenting
PSA and Video ad for JLO
Rape Crisis Center
Read Odessa
Ronald McDonald House
Teen Sexuality- Meeting Today’s Challenge
Teen Court
“The Chemical People”
Time Machine Recycling Center
Tx State Highway Beautification
Texan’s War on Drugs
Women’s Symposium with UTPB.
WHO – We Help Ourselves

1990-1999
Adopt-a-Caseworker with Child Protective Services
Coming of Age- Adolescent Issues in the 90s
D-FY-IT
ECLAIRS- Ector County Library Automation
Educators for Tomorrow
Harmony Home
Junior Achievement
KidZone
Kids Television Programming
PAL- Police Athletic League
Rainbow Room
SPARK – Self-Esteem Project for At-Risk Students
Think and Learn
Tx Scholars

2000-2009
American Cancer Society
Angel House – Center for Crisis Advocacy
City of Odessa Spray Park
Family Health Center Dental Clinic
For Kid’s Sake
Habitat for Humanity
Hope Chest
Hospice House Pediatric Room
Mission Center
Odessa Links
Ronald McDonald House Charities Care Mobile
Ronald McDonald House Family Room at MCH

2010-2014
 Hope House
Literacy- YMCA Reading Room
Parks Methodist Retirement Center
SHARE

2014-2015

Food2 Kids
Medical Center Hospital ProCare Healthy Kids Clinic
Odessa Parks and Recreation-Daddy Daughter Dance

Crisis Center

2015-2016

Food2kids

Crisis Center

Odessa Parks Daddy Daughter Dance

Odessa Parks Mother Son Dance

Crisis Center

2016-2017

Odessa Parks Daddy Daughter Dance

Odessa Parks Mother Son Dance

2017-1018

Kids In the Kitchen

ECISD Mentoring Program

Odessa Parks and Recreation-Mother Son Dance

Odessa Parks Spray Park

2019 – 2020

Kids in the Kitchen

Art 2 Go

Be the Change

Crisis Center

2020 – 2021

Little Free Libraries

2022 – 2023

Pink Pantry