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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…
Advocacy in many forms at AJLI’s 91st Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
Though we don’t typically use this space to comment on the business of the Association, several magical things happened last month that we thought were worth sharing with a broader…
Does How You See Yourself Affect Your Self-Esteem?
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…
Facing Danger on the Front and in the Barracks
Defense Department policy and the flaws inherent in military culture have been in the news in the last several weeks for very different reasons, each of them with a profound…
Taking Their Seats at the Capitol
In the Wednesday-morning quarterbacking that followed last week’s elections in the U.S., one of the more significant outcomes barely earned a headline: more women than ever before have been sent…
Sustainable Assets: A Global Force
THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MEXICO CITY’S JACKIE RIVAS SPREADS THE WORD ON THE BENEFITS OF VOLUNTARISM AROUND THE WORLD Jacqueline Butcher de Rivas, or Jackie Rivas as she’s known among…
How do we define ‘success’?
Good question. At The Junior League, the best measurement is our ability to create lasting community impact. That is what we strive to do with every program or initiative we…
Sustainable Assets: Bobbie Sparrow: A Woman of Many Interests
Junior League of Calgary Sustainer Bobbie Sparrow parlayed her experiences in business, philanthropy, and volunteer service into a career in politics, ultimately rising to office in the Canadian Parliament’s House…
Q&A: Marion Goard and ‘Voluntarism’ in Canada
Voluntarism – and The Junior League—is doing well in Canada, thank you. That’s the message from Marion Goard, the Canadian Federation of Junior Leagues’ new National Coordinator. AJLI: What do…
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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…