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Friends of La Leche League is thrilled to share the results of the 2025 Mini-Grants! This year we received a record number of applications — 50 — from all around the world. After careful review of each of the requests, the Mini-Grant Committee and the Friends of LLL Board approved thirteen outstanding projects for funding, awarding a record amount of $21,704! We are especially grateful for restricted donations to our Mini-Grants fund, which made these record awards possible.
This year we gave special consideration to projects that promote the new edition of The Art of Breastfeeding book, and about half of the awardees included plans for this. We are most excited that every one of the funded initiatives will help in fulfilling the Friends of La Leche League mission by supporting LLL Leaders and applicants, furthering breastfeeding education, and supporting breastfeeding babies and their families. We encourage you to visit our website Mini-Grants page to view short descriptions of each of the thirteen selected projects and review information about previous grant awards.
We thank this year’s Mini-Grants team — Lupe Forsang, Joan Crothers, and Nancy Blake Franklin — for volunteering their time to review all the applications, make grant recommendations, and follow up with the award winners as they execute their projects. All funded projects are scheduled to be completed within a calendar year, and we are looking forward to hearing more about each of these projects as the award-winners realize their program goals.
Friends of La Leche League hosted a wonderful trip to Chicago on October 24 – 27 of this year. Trip highlights included an opening night reception, walking and boat tours of Chicago architecture, fun meals, museum visits, participation in the LLLI Celebration Gala, and a day spent at Wilder Park, where the idea for LLLI was conceived. Several people also participated in optional tours of the LLLI Archives at DePaul University. Registrants enjoyed our activities, but all agreed that the best part of the trip was connecting with Friends new and old, especially after so long since our last in-person event. Please look to upcoming issues of our members’ newsletter, Continuum, for more details about this very special Friends trip.
Do you miss the sense of community you felt at LLL Series Meetings or Leader/Leader Applicant Days? Every month, members of Friends of La Leche League meet online for a discussion on an interesting topic in a warm, relaxed, and caring atmosphere.
Our Happy Hours are a popular benefit of membership, and a great way for members to get to know new people, stay in touch, and support each other. We welcome first-time participants to attend a Chat and see if they like it before joining Friends of LLL. Please contact Jo-Anne if you would like to volunteer to lead a discussion. Information about each month’s chat and details about how to register are published each month on our website News Page.
For more than twenty years, Friends of La Leche League has honored deceased LLL Leaders through the “We Remember” program. Leaders are listed on our website by name and year of death. A ceremony in which the Leaders names are read was initiated at the 2001 LLL International Conference and has been held at conferences and Friends of LLL trips since then. To honor all deceased Leaders, we urge Friends who learn of the death of any LLL Leader to pass along information using this “We Remember” Form.
Friends of LLL also wants to honor all individuals who have inspired us. Our Tributes page includes personalized tributes honoring special people. Tributes are posted on our website for one year and included in Continuum magazine. You can write a tribute honoring someone important to you by using this form.
The “Honors” option on our main menu provides direct access to the “We Remember” and Tributes pages and forms. Friends of La Leche League is proud to honor those who have inspired us.
