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    Sometimes Being A New Mother Hurts

    • May 11, 2016
    This month’s guest post is by Joy Burkhard, a founder, Executive Director and Board Chair of 2020 Mom, a national nonprofit dedicated to closing gaps in maternal mental health care…
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      What Else Do You Need To Know About Mother’s Day?

      • May 4, 2016
      Mother’s Day as a national holiday in the U.S. turns 103 this year, and its popularity as a special day for Mom has spread widely around the world. The holiday’s…
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        Do We Still Care About the Childhood Obesity Epidemic?

        • September 30, 2015
        In her latest piece for The Huffington Post, AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish takes a look at the current fight against childhood obesity. To read more click here.
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          News from across the Association: Minneapolis takes the lede…

          • May 28, 2014
          Check out The Junior League of Minneapolis’s Advocacy Blog, which was awarded an Honorable Mention for the JL Award for Marketing and Communications at AJLI’s Annual Conference last week. Through its blog…
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            Equal Futures Partnership

            • March 25, 2014
            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…
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              New hope in the fight against prostitution and sex trafficking

              • August 10, 2013
              Over the last decade we’ve watched the world’s newest technology enable the world’s oldest profession to flourish. Just as the Internet has put fashion and furniture in the hands of…
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              Dove Real Beauty Sketches
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                Does How You See Yourself Affect Your Self-Esteem?

                • April 30, 2013
                In Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s 2011 Sundance Film Festival entry “MissRepresentation,” many of the high-profile interviewees suggested that the portrayal of women in the media—provocative magazine covers, violent video games, demeaning…
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                A Slow Battle for the Young and Overweight

                • December 17, 2012
                Recently published reports show declines in the rates of obesity among children in both urban metropolises and smaller cities and towns. Though preliminary and confined for the most part to…
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                Thanksgiving 2012
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                  So much to be grateful for…Thanksgiving in the United States

                  • November 19, 2012
                  Thanksgiving in the United States is a time when we not only enjoy a bounty of good food and drink—and the company of those important to us—but also when we…
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                  Breast Cancer Awareness
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                    Breast Cancer Awareness Month

                    • October 25, 2011
                    The month of October, now recognized around the world as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, brings to the forefront of our minds an illness that has touched each and everyone of…
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