S - Community Improvement & Capacity Building

To promote clinical herbalism as a viable profession.

To attract and retain businesses to the area, to provide services to our members.

To provide safety, shelter, and support for battered women and their children and to actively work to end violence against women and children.

Our Mission
The Junior League of Raleigh (JLR) is a local chapter of the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc., an international organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

To promote voluntarism and to improve the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

To cultivate opportnities, assets and communities that support the alleviation of homelessness and poverty. CEF provides matched savings accounts, micro-loans, and financial education to assist families insustaing transition out of homelessness.

Swiss Bear facilitates development of the greater downtown area through leadership and planning that empowers community stakeholders to promote and enhance New Bern’s unique cultural and natural resources.

To develop, implement and promote sound economic strategies that improve the quality of life of rural North Carolinians, with a special focus on individuals with low to moderate incomes and communities with limited resources.

El Centro Hispano works to strengthen the community, build bridges, and advocate for equity and inclusion.

To help nonprofits use technology to better serve their communitites.