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3 Questions: Eva Terry, Development Director, Peace at Home Family Shelter
Eva has a long history of work with assisting women and children in Northwest Arkansas. Prior to joining Peace at Home Family Shelter, she was at Northwest Arkansas Women’s Shelter…
This Could Happen in Any City
In a time when civic trauma – whether civil unrest, racially motivated violence, or hate crimes – sweeps many of our cities, Junior Leagues are facing the challenge of demonstrating…
VOTE! But first you have to register!
It’s no secret that a significant election is scheduled for November 8th. Voters may not be eligible to vote, however, unless they are registered. This is the drive behind National…
Nonprofits and the ‘Promise of America’
This guest post is by Junior League of Buffalo member and former AJLI President Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, who came to this country as a child with her family as Cuban…
We Stand With Orlando
Today the rainbow flag has lost its color. And one more time, people everywhere have lost a little bit more of our feeling of safety and freedom. All of us…
Presidential Candidates: Stop Shouting and Start Emulating Nonprofit Leaders
Charities depend on Americans getting involved in civic life, so we need to speak out about what’s wrong with today’s political discourse.
I’ll have a double tall civil discourse, please!
We believe firmly in a concept called civil discourse, which has been a hallmark of The Junior League across our history. People talking to each other in constructive ways to…
International Women’s Day 2016
International Women’s Day comes once each year – this year it was Tuesday, March 8. This year I had the privilege of attending part of a two-day program, the 6th…
Forget Leadership Training – Where’s the Leadership?
In a thoughtful opinion article in Top Nonprofits, a blog for nonprofit leaders and organizations, AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish argues that “leadership training” lacks value if it doesn’t lead…
Are we listening? Or just talking?
Civil discourse is the engagement in discourse (conversation) intended to enhance understanding of particular political issues[i]. As a society, we need more civil discourse if we are to ever bring…