Spanish Serenade, our second annual music and treats (wine, cheese, and chocolates) fundraiser was a great success. The event raised ten full-year scholarships for orphaned and impoverished girls who would not otherwise be able to go to high school as well as funds for entrepreneurship and agricultural projects at the school...
You can help us meet the challenge of science education for Kenyan girls! A generous donor, who lived in Kenya as a teen, has offered to match donations to reach a total of $120,000 to build a science building and equip chemistry, biology, and physics labs...
You are invited to join us for a fun and delicious evening in support of JAMS! Friends of Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls will hold its second annual wine, cheese, and chocolate fundraiser on Friday, February 3, 7:00–10:00 p.m. at Blumen Gardens, 403 Edward Street in Sycamore, IL...
ANOTHER CHANCE TO GET OUR GREAT BASKETS! Did you miss the basket sale at Pumpkin Fest in Sycamore? Do you want to get loved ones great gifts AND support a great cause? Please come to the Winter Market on December 10, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 158 N. Fourth St., DeKalb, IL...
At Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls, our students love science and our teachers are dedicated to empowering girls to succeed, and pursue careers, in the sciences. However, until now, students and teachers at JAMS have made do with just one science building for all three required science subjects, at all four grade levels...
On May 3, 2016, Friends of JAMS is participating in Give Local America 2016 as one of thousands of nonprofit organizations across the nation for one of the largest single-day crowdfunding events in America! If you donate through Give Local DeKalb County on May 3rd, your generous donation will be amplified with a percentage of the proportional matching pool of funds...
The Wine and Cline Your Valentine fundraiser (aka From Patsy with Love) was a great success! Over 230 people attended the event and over $9,500 was raised for the construction of a science classroom building at Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls...
Judy Wehrmeister Library Fund for JAMS in honor of Judy Wehrmeister’s 41 years of librarianship, including 29 years as a school librarian. Donations to the Wehrmeister Library Fund will benefit the school library at Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls (JAMS), helping to buy books, bookshelves, and other supplies...
"He Named Me Malala" - Free Movie Screening Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:00 PM (doors 6:30 PM) Free and open to the public. Panel discussion following the film. Egyptian Theatre 135 N. 2nd Street, DeKalb, IL 60115
The Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls (JAMS) Class of 2015 has made us proud and confident in what we do. Their performance in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) National Exams was outstanding...