More than a store…

Junebug opened in June 2009.

Since then, Junebug has become the‘go-to’place for young families. In 2010 Drey Ward & Maria Graham became co-directors followed by

Jenna Sonneborn in 2012.

Our store……features quality

gently-used maternity clothing & kids clothing &

shoes, a playroom,

a sitting area, & family friendly

bathroom.

Junebug is a great place to nurse your baby and change a

diaper.

Junebug offers summer playgroups for

wee ones and their caregivers.

Junebug provides a welcoming environment for nursing mothers & is the

host of a monthly

La Leche League breastfeeding café and playgroup.

In 2013, more than 26,000 affordable, gently-used articles of

clothing went to their new homes in a Junebug brown bag.

Junebug helps build truly accessible playgrounds!

Junebug made a $1,000 grant to the Bristol Downtown Community Partnership and the Bristol Recreation Department for their Bristol Green Playground project. This effort is raising the funds necessary to upgrade the existing play space and to build a new natural playground on the community green that will be truly accessible to everyone.

https://www.facebook.com/BristolGreenPlayground

Junebug + Mary Hogan 2013

Working with the school nurse, Junebug designed & installed a closet system to help organize their emergency clothing. Junebug supplies inventory to complement the direct parent donations that keep the closet fully stocked with everything from everyday basics to cold weather essentials. Students no longer have to sit out during physical education if they don’t have sneakers or stay in for recess if they don’t have boots. They are instead learning how to independently find what they need and join in the fun!

Mary Hogan School is the largest public elementary school in

Addison County, with nearly half of the students living in

households earning under the federal free and reduced lunch

annual income guideline. Ensuring that each child has

adequate and appropriate clothing to fully participate in the school

day is an increasing challenge for teachers.

before after

In 2012, 200 people at our Community2Community dinner and silent auction event helped raise over $3,200 for Junebug

and Soles4Souls in Haiti.

Junebug supports arts for kids!

Junebug sponsored

Mary Hogan School’s

Pegasus Theatre(an annual after-school production by fourth and fifth

graders)

Junebug helped at-risk teens from Vergennes and

participants in the Learning Together program at the

Addison County Parent/Child Center take pottery classes at

Middlebury Studio School, a non-profit art and craft school

in Middlebury, VT.

Junebug is a proud sponsor of the

Middlebury SummerFestival on the Green

The Festival’s special “Brown Bag” noontime series entertains youngsters every day for a week for free!

Junebug helped make it possible for 4th, 5th & 6th gradersin Middlebury, Leicester & Shoreham to participate in the

Town Hall Theater’s Shakespeare: It’s Elementary! acting workshops culminating in a production of

Hamlet on the Town Hall Theater stage.

Charlie Birchard, left, & Max Ralston practice swordplay for the April 4 production of “Hamlet” at the Town Hall Theater.

Caption & Photo Addison Independent/Trent Campbell

Junebug encourages childrens’ love of reading through its support of

Addison County Readers and its collaboration with

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.

Junebug supports readers!

Junebug sponsored the Grandparents Award Storybook Spectacular, a collaboration between Ilsley Public Library & the Town Hall Theater designed to bring seniors and young children

together over a shared love of reading.

Junebug is an annual sponsor of read-a-thon fundraisersat Mary Hogan School &

Vergennes Union Elementary School

Vergennes School’s Principal Sargeant starts the March

Madness Reading with her own take on a classic!

Author Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (L) & Mary Hogan Librarian Julie

Altemose display the quilt made by Natalie’s grandmother that

was the inspiration for her book The Canada Geese Quilt

Junebug welcomes every baby born at Porter Hospital with a coupon for two free outfits. Last year, over 100 babies rocked re-homed threads

from Junebug. Babies don't come with instruction manuals or appropriate clothes, but Junebug is here

to help!

Junebug donates hundreds of free baby outfits for Vermont WIC to give away at their baby showers for expectant

moms.

WIC provides women healthy foods, nutrition counseling,

breastfeeding support, health education and connections to

other community resources...like Junebug!

Junebug sponsors Quarry Hill School's annual fundraiser and family event,

the Iguana Cup Ski Race at the

Middlebury College Snow Bowl!

Junebug is a training site for theVermont Department for Children and

Families

Reach Up Program, providing learning and work experience necessary for young women to gain self-sufficiency.

Department for Children and Families

Agency of Human Services

Fostering the healthy development, safety, well-being and self-sufficiency of Vermonters

Junebug collaborates with the

John Graham Shelter in Vergennes

to provide equipment & clothingfor homeless pregnant women and

children.

Junebug works withcounselors at WomenSafe

to provide urgently needed clothingto women and children

fleeing from domestic violence.

Thank you for taking the time to learn about what we

do. We think that it is important work and hope that you will support us as

we continue to do it.