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Susan Danish
An Unusual, But Appropriate, Way to Honor Nelson Mandela
On Thursday evening, I found myself honoring Nelson Mandela’s memory in a way that was unexpected yet so poignant. AJLI’s COO, Maureen Mackey, and I attended a brief holiday performance…
Passion with a Purpose
Last week I attended part of the Social Innovation Summit 2013, which was held at Stanford. I’ve been stewing about the fact that so many issues we, and many, many…
Don’t believe everything you read . . .
To say that AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish was moved by the urban renewal she witnessed on a recent trip to the beleaguered city of Detroit for AJLI’s Fall Leadership…
AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish takes on the media and not-for-profits–and the power of voluntarism
AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish has been unusually prolific in the last week. First she penned a piece entitled “If a Nonprofit Falls in the Forest” for Stanford Social Innovation Review on the disappearance…
What Can Katrina Teach Us About Sandy? Susan Danish Responds to That Question Today in the Huffington Post
Today’s Huffington Post featured a piece by AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish entitled ‘Developing “Civic Capital’ — What Can Katrina Teach Us About Sandy?” In it she posits that well-trained…
A Marathon of Mourning
I feel like we are all running in a marathon of mourning. We barely catch our breath from one unthinkable act before another takes place. We try to move forward,…
Reframing Human Services
As Junior Leagues we are part of the vast network of human services organizations working to create better communities and a better world. What we do is not “discretionary.” We…
What Happened to Universal Values?
Yesterday the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, having passed in the Senate earlier this month. The reauthorization was not without…
A Chilly Reminder of What Matters
In today’s January chill, on the day that commemorates the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., the nation’s 44th president was sworn into his second term, and into…
Letting Go of Dead Ideas
All of us live with dead ideas – in our personal lives, in our organizations, in our countries and in the world. These are ideas that we hang onto although…