{"id":52259,"date":"2025-11-19T04:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52259\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T04:38:07","slug":"junior-league-of-tallahassee-raising-awareness-to-support-local-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/52259\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior League of Tallahassee raising awareness to support local families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Members of the Junior League of Tallahassee hope you&#8217;ll ask them about their dress or outfit this week. It&#8217;s part of the league&#8217;s annual <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tallahassee.jl.org\/annual-fundraisers\/little-black-dress-initiative\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Black Dress Initiative. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>From November 16 through November 22, members will wear the <br \/>same outfit. The outfit represents the tough choices families living in poverty often have to make. <\/p>\n<p>Members are also wearing buttons that read \u201cAsk Me About My Dress\u201d or \u201cAsk Me About My Outfit. The goal is to start a conversation among colleagues, friends, and strangers to raise awareness about food insecurity and poverty and how it impacts our neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Black Dress Initiative also serves as the league&#8217;s largest annual fundraiser, fueling support for its signature projects.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tallahassee.jl.org\/community\/kids-boutique\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kids Boutique<\/a>: The league&#8217;s annual back-to-school shopping event supporting Leon County school students in Title I schools. Students can shop for clothes, shoes, and are given a backpack filled with school supplies. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tallahassee.jl.org\/community\/big-bend-bites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Big Bend Bites<\/a>: This spring break feeding event helps address the gap in students receiving food when schools are out for break. Each year, the league hosts a mega food distribution providing 1,000 families with food to help support them during the week that school is out. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more about JLT and how you can support those initiatives, visit <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/tallahassee.jl.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JLTallahassee.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram <\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) \u2014 Members of the Junior League of Tallahassee hope you&#8217;ll ask them about their dress&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3535,32900,32901,232,234,233,562],"class_list":["post-52259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-food-insecurity","tag-junior-league-of-tallahassee","tag-lbdi","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-wtxl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}