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2014
JL Interview Exclusive: Holly Dunn Pendleton
HOLLY DUNN PENDLETON TURNS PERSONAL TRAUMA INTO ADVOCACY FOR OTHERS After a violent attack by a notorious murderer, a Junior League of Evansville member makes a remarkable transformation from victim…
The Building Blocks of Transformation
A MULTI-YEAR, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY STRATEGY FOR THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE FUTURE As illustrated by the AJLI leadership team at the 92nd Annual Conference in St. Louis, this spring brought the…
A mother turns tragedy into a legacy of leadership
There are so many ways that people live with grief, especially when that grief is borne of unspeakable tragedy. When she lost her son Welles Crowther in the collapse of…
In the darkness, glimmers of hope
The Israel-Gaza conflict. Ferguson, Mo. The Islamic State terror network. Ebola. Ukraine. Robin Williams. From the sad and often horrifying news in the headlines these days it’s easy to think…
Yes, reading to young kids is critically important!
This is a fact that many Junior Leagues have embraced over the years with programs that encourage childhood literacy and look to involve parents as well as teachers in the…
The good, the bad and the ugly of celebrity endorsements
In The Chronicle of Philanthropy, AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish examines both the value and the cost celebrity ambassadors can impose upon charitable causes in the race for media exposure.…
Who Was Mary Harriman? Part 3: Life on the national stage
Although Mary’s parents were lifelong Republicans, in 1928 she and her brother Averell declared their support for Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith. Mary’s active work for the campaign brought her…
Who Was Mary Harriman? Part 2: The public service years begin
When Mary Harriman graduated from Barnard College in 1905 her work with the New York Junior League continued, and in 1909 she founded a sanitarium for Brooklyn’s “consumptives,” an early…
Who was Mary Harriman? Part 1
Mary Harriman was determined to be more than a debutante. Although born into a family of great privilege, the path she took was quite different from that which was expected…
Just when think you’ve got college costs all figured out…
You arrive at school to an empty dorm room. And outfitting that room with even the basics – sheets, towels, blankets, pillows and the like – can be very costly…