May 5-11, 2025

We are thrilled to announce that we have been nominated for the Non-Profit Excellence Award! Voting is open until Friday, May 16. The winners will be announced at the Palm Desert Area Business Awards & Board Recognition event on Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at Palm Valley Country Club.

To cast your vote for Joslyn Center, please use the link below and scroll down the page and click on any of the VOTE HERE buttons. This will take you to another page where you can cast your vote for Joslyn Center and other categories as well. The Non-Profit Excellence category is third from the bottom. And you can vote more than once!

National Give Someone a Cupcake Day is celebrated every year on May 8th by Americans across the United States. On this day, people give either bakery-bought or homemade cupcakes to their coworkers, colleagues, teachers, bosses, and anyone else they share their life with. Before muffin tins, they were baked in cups or molds so that's where the name "cupcake" came from! Can you believe that In the United States alone every year, about 800 million cupcakes are eaten?

Every year, our members love when we celebrate National Give Someone a Cupcake Day! In honor of the day, Joslyn Center wants to give YOU a cupcake! Joslyn staff will be making some fresh-baked ones in the morning. Come by on Thursday, May 8th, and pick one up while the supply lasts! What do you think the flavors will be this year?

Please join us for a Twisted Tea Party with Ala von Auersperg fashions, frolics, and a fabulous high tea with a champagne reception and shopping at Willie's Modern Fare, Rancho Mirage, Sunday, May 18, 2025, 3-5pm.

Tickets are $75 and a portion of the proceeds will benefit Joslyn Center. To RSVP and purchase tickets, please scan the QR Code. Seating is limited so act now! For further information inquiries, please click the email link below.

Ala von Auersperg is a designer, philanthropist, mother, grandmother, and founder of Ala von Auersperg, the clothing and accessories brand celebrating women of all ages and sizes with effortlessly elegant silhouettes. A longtime painter with a penchant for travel and deep love of nature, Ala launched the eponymous label in 2017 with the goal of dressing women in styles that exude confidence and comfort. For further information, please click below to visit their website.

Invaders from Mars

1953, 1h 18m

Curious adolescent boy David MacLean (Jimmy Hunt) confronts aliens who have set up base in his backyard. The extraterrestrials intend to use mind control on the local townsfolk. Determined to stop the invaders, who have already co-opted his father (Leif Erickson), he attempts to warn others. But when local law officers also succumb, David teams up with astronomer Stuart Kelston (Arthur Franz) and Dr. Pat Blake (Helena Carter), and the trio must fight together to repel the insidious intruders.

Meet at Joslyn Center at 4:00pm for conversation,

then head over to

Santorini Greek & Mediterranean Food

40101 Monterey Ave Ste G5, Rancho Mirage

Click image for restaurant information.

Happy Hour / special pricing may be available.

Please call Francie at 760-310-1942 for reservations.

Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (2023) is a historical account of the Klan’s brief but meteoric resurrection in Indiana in the 1920s. Using meticulous research combined with the descriptive elements of narrative thrillers, Egan recreates in detail a particularly dark chapter in American history. Egan focuses on David C. Stephenson, a grifter and conman who exploited the fears and racism of middle America to build an empire with himself as king, as well as Madge Oberholtzer, the woman who ultimately stopped him. Egan, a reporter for The New York Times, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his reporting on race in America.

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan

The Business Partner program is one of the reasons Joslyn Center is able to keep membership dues and activities low fee or free. Our business partners also sponsor events and social programs, helping to defray costs. To learn more about Gold Business Partner services, please click their logos below. 

For a full list of Joslyn Center Business Partners, please click below.

For information on becoming a Business Partner,

please contact Alex at AlexG@JoslynCenter.org or 760-895-4652.

The Joslyn Center provides extensive programs and services for older adults in Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, and surrounding Coachella Valley communities.