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  • Projects That Inspire

If at first you don’t succeed, try it a different way

  • December 2, 2011
Launched in 2008, the Junior League of Philadelphia‘s (JLP) Project GREEN: Using Nature to Nurture was focused on the intersection of children’s health and wellness and the natural environment. Project…
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  • Out of the Archives

A Legacy of Environmental Activism

  • September 3, 2010
BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf got us thinking about The Junior League’s trail-blazing legacy in environmental advocacy. It took only a quick look through the archives to uncover…
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  • Civic Leadership

What can one person do in the face of environmental disaster?

  • June 24, 2010
A lot, if that person is Casi Callaway.  But not as much as 160,000 committed civic leaders. When the Gulf oil spill hit, Casi Callaway was already putting her many…
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  • Civic Leadership
  • Environment

Happy 40th Birthday, Earth Day!

  • April 22, 2010
Four decades after the first Earth Day, this ecological celebration is alive and well – and bigger than ever. While The Junior League is perhaps best known for our work…
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Founded in 1901 by New Yorker and social activism pioneer Mary Harriman, The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI) is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

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