History:
Since its inception in 1938, the League of Women Voters of Wellesley has played a central role in promoting the informed participation of the town's citizens in government.  Throughout the past six decades, the League has provided services to the voters, including voter registration, voting information, rides to the polls, a guide to candidates for local office, as well as candidate forums and debates.

Beginning with the "Ask-It Wagons" and Town Affairs dinners of the 1940's, the League has sustained its mission to educate and foster open dialogue among the citizens of the town. Today, the League holds numerous events throughout the year featuring speakers on a wide range of local, state, national and international issues. For 40 years, the League published Know Your Town, a handbook of information for new residents, which is now named The Wellesley Handbook. The League currently updates its Town Government Handbook and distributes it to newly-elected members of Town boards and Town Meeting Members.

The League has also been instrumental in educating citizens on issues of local concern and has studied and advocated in support of issues before Town Meeting and the voters of Wellesley. Over the years, the League has focused on a wide range of topics beginning with town planning and the schools in the 1940's, water resources in the 1950's, special education and support of the METCO program in the 1960's, youth services, land use and home rule in the 1970's, day care, school bus safety, recycling and hazardous waste disposal in the 1980's, and the Town's Comprehensive Plan, structure of Town government and affordable housing in the 1990's.  The League has also focused more broadly on other issues in the areas of foreign policy, gender equity, health care and education reform, through study groups, projects and hosting speakers for public events.

It is the goal of the League to be responsive to the issues of the day and to the concerns and interests of its members. The League of Women Voters of Wellesley also supports the on-going work of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and the League of Women Voters of the United States.