Junior Leadership Spartanburg is a program sponsored by the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce to develop a corps of informed, committed and qualified young people capable of providing dynamic leadership in their schools and in the Spartanburg community as they grow and mature to adulthood.

The objectives of the program are to:

• Identify and select highly motivated and potential leaders within the school communities to participate in the program.
• Systematically challenge the students to become aware of, to examine and to respond to the social and economic needs of the community.
• Develop an esprit de corps among the students which will provide a common ground for working together and with others within their own schools and among the ten high schools in Spartanburg County on present and future programs and projects of the schools.
• Create a dialogue and sense of understanding between the students and existing community leaders in areas of community concern.
• Identify opportunities for community involvement for the participants both currently, as leaders in the youth community, and as future leaders in adulthood.