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Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award
A HUMANITARIAN FOR THE AGES Though she committed to donating the entirety of her holdings to charity when she joined the elite Giving Pledge in 2010, Lyda Hill of the Junior League of…
Florence Shapiro: Her service to Texas began as a volunteer
This is the fifth in a series of five stories during National Women’s History Month 2015 about Junior League members who have made a very visible mark on their communities…
Margaret Hance: From the Junior League of Phoenix to the National Stage
This is the second in a series of five stories during National Women’s History Month 2015 about Junior League members who have made a very visible mark on their communities…
In Orlando, Glenda Hood Focused on Building Community
In honor of National Women’s History Month 2015, we have prepared a series of five stories about Junior League members who have made a very visible mark on their communities…
Who Was Mary Harriman? Part 3: Life on the national stage
Although Mary’s parents were lifelong Republicans, in 1928 she and her brother Averell declared their support for Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith. Mary’s active work for the campaign brought her…
Does civic leadership start in grade school?
We were surprised and pleased when we saw a news story out of Boise, Idaho the other day about Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the Supreme…
Your Highlights from the 2013 AJLI Annual Conference
What did Junior League leaders see and do when they gathered in Washington, DC for the 2013 AJLI Annual Conference? Find out by viewing their personal photos and tweets.
What is the value of a trained civic leader?
That’s a question we ask ourselves a lot at AJLI. And the answer is (drum roll, please!) a great deal, even if difficult to measure in traditional professional terms. Voluntarism…
Who Was Mary Harriman?
What makes 160,000 women in 4 countries join a women’s volunteer organization dedicated to fostering civic leadership? The enduring legacy of Junior League founder, Mary Harriman. But who was Mary…