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Let’s start by talking about nutrition!

  • March 16, 2015
Maybe you already know this, but March is National Nutrition Month. And that’s a good thing! It’s no secret that developed countries are faced with soaring obesity rates, particularly for…
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Your Highlights from the 2013 AJLI Annual Conference

  • May 22, 2013
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.
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The Junior League of Richmond Locker

  • December 4, 2012
This summer, Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ), hired a new football coach. There was a short article in the paper, and it mentioned that TJ had very few resources and…
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The Junior League’s Transformation: The road-trip continues . . .

  • October 10, 2012
AJLI’s multi-phased, multi-year strategic planning process known as the Strategic Roadmap, or the Road to Transformation, is a topic you’ve been reading about in connected, hearing about—and contributing feedback to—during…
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In case you missed it, Nov. 15th is National Philanthropy Day!

  • November 14, 2011
Junior Leaguers may not typically think of themselves as philanthropists, although what we do here meets Wikipedia’s etymological definition of the term as “the love of humanity” as well as…
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Are You Ready for the Holidays? (We Are.)

  • October 13, 2011
Junior Leagues have, for decades, created and run some amazing projects addressing big problems like childhood obesity, women’s health, illiteracy, alcoholism and foster care. So it’s ironic that many community…
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Webinar Wednesdays gets into gear

  • September 28, 2011
Webinar Wednesdays gets into gear, Wednesday, Oct. 5, with insights from Heather McLeod Grant, co-author of Forces for Good The Webinar Wednesdays program, one of the exciting offerings in AJLI’s…
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Transformation in the 2011-2012 League Year

  • September 27, 2011
THE RUBBER HITS THE ROAD Those of you who attended Annual Conference may recall the presentation given by AJLI’s Executive Director Susan Danish in which she read aloud a children’s…
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What’s all the chatter about Action Learning?

  • September 27, 2011
We asked Anne Dalton, AJLI’s Chief Officer for Strategic Initiatives, and Janine le Sueur, Director of Education and Programs, to give us a little primer on Action Learning as a…
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  • Civic Leadership

Tweet this: Tell us why you joined #JuniorLeague!

  • August 30, 2011
The Junior League of Napa-Sonoma sent out that Tweet at a little after 1:30 p.m. PDT on August 17. Within minutes, retweets started coming in from all over The Association.…
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