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Susan Danish
Change Management From the Inside Out
AJLI Executive Director Susan E. Danish shares some strategies for dealing with management change and transitions within an organization in this piece for Philanthropy New Digest.
Consider The Impact
AJLI Executive Director Susan E. Danish wrote about the history of women’s organizations for “Contemporary Perspective,” a column that appears in the Spring 2015 issue of A Different Point of…
Sunday is International Women’s Day
Sunday is International Women’s Day. It’s a great day to reflect on the role that we as women can play in creating a better world for everyone. For the last…
How was your Valentine’s Day?
(The following appeared on The Huffington Post on Feb. 17, 2015) I received my Valentine’s Day gift in Guatemala City from an elderly woman living in a nursing home in…
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.…
Thinking of starting your own nonprofit? Think again.
Every year, Americans start thousands of nonprofit organizations. Some are dedicated to eradicating disease, others to addressing social issues such as poverty, homelessness, or gun violence. In fact, according to…
Centered Leadership
It’s that time of year in the Junior League calendar. When current leadership teams are winding down and new teams are gearing up. It’s that time when at AJLI we…
Equal Futures Partnership
March 10 – 21 marked the convening of the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Over the course of…
Honoring International Women’s Day
Tuesday, March 4th was International Women’s Day. AJLI’s President-Elect Ellen Rose and I spent the day with hundreds of women from around the world at the United Nations. The day,…
Memo to The New York Times: It’s Sex Trafficking!
The New York Times had a great opportunity last week to create awareness about the face of slavery today – human trafficking of women and girls for commercial sex –…