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3 Questions: Caroline Vance Bruister & Virginia Chambers, Co-Chairs of CalSPAC
Representing 17 member Leagues across the state and acting on behalf of their nearly 10,000 members, the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee advocates for policies that improve…
3 Questions: Caroline Vance Bruister & Virginia Chambers, Co-Chairs of CalSPAC
Representing 17 member Leagues across the state and acting on behalf of their nearly 10,000 members, the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee advocates for policies that improve…
3 Questions: Emily Schwarz, President of the Junior League of Philadelphia
Across the country, 23.5 million Americans—including 6.5 million children—live in underserved communities that do not have affordable access to healthy foods. Among these are communities located in Greater Philadelphia, one…
3 Questions: Carolyn Hoffman of The Junior League of Hartford
In one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the poorest cities in the U.S., the Junior League of Hartford tackled food insecurity head on through an ambitious initiative to…
In case you missed it…
November 25th was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Missed it? Maybe that’s not surprising. A Google search on the name results in only 312,000 hits, a…
3 Questions: Lee Lowry of The Junior League of Tampa
The Junior League of Tampa made a big impression on the Tampa Bay community this year with an aggressive, multi-media awareness campaign called AbolishMovement.com with the theme Abolish Child Sex…
3 Questions: Sara Morley-LaCroix of the Junior League of Kalamazoo
While there are many great examples of what individual Junior Leagues and SPACs are doing to fight human trafficking, the Junior League of Kalamazoo’s Sara Morley-LaCroix shows how League members can…
3 Questions: Lisa Hofflich, Co-chair of NYSPAC
The fight against human trafficking has become one that a number of SPACs have adopted as their own. Here, the Junior League of the City of New York’s Lisa Hofflich…
Sustainable Assets: Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker
FROM SANTA CLARA, CUBA TO BUFFALO, N.Y.: A LONG ROAD TO ADVOCACY Junior League of Buffalo member and former AJLI President Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker journeyed from Cuban refugee to naturalized…
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…