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  • Civic Leadership

3 Questions: Caroline Vance Bruister & Virginia Chambers, Co-Chairs of CalSPAC

  • December 18, 2014
Representing 17 member Leagues across the state and acting on behalf of their nearly 10,000 members, the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee advocates for policies that improve…
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  • Civic Leadership

3 Questions: Caroline Vance Bruister & Virginia Chambers, Co-Chairs of CalSPAC

  • December 18, 2014
Representing 17 member Leagues across the state and acting on behalf of their nearly 10,000 members, the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee advocates for policies that improve…
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  • Civic Leadership

3 Questions: Lee Lowry of The Junior League of Tampa

  • October 1, 2014
The Junior League of Tampa made a big impression on the Tampa Bay community this year with an aggressive, multi-media awareness campaign called AbolishMovement.com with the theme Abolish Child Sex…
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  • Civic Leadership

3 Questions: Sara Morley-LaCroix of the Junior League of Kalamazoo

  • October 1, 2014
While there are many great examples of what individual Junior Leagues and SPACs are doing to fight human trafficking, the Junior League of Kalamazoo’s Sara Morley-LaCroix shows how League members can…
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  • Civic Leadership

3 Questions: Lisa Hofflich, Co-chair of NYSPAC

  • October 1, 2014
The fight against human trafficking has become one that a number of SPACs have adopted as their own. Here, the Junior League of the City of New York’s Lisa Hofflich…
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  • Projects That Inspire

The fight against human trafficking is big enough for all of us…and then some

  • October 1, 2014
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery. Its victims are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of commercial sex or forced labor. They are young children,…
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  • Projects That Inspire

What do football and car shows have in common?

  • January 24, 2014
When they’re the Super Bowl, the biggest football game, and the North American International Auto Show, the biggest car show, chances are it’s crowds and human trafficking. Combined, they are…
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    An old evil born anew

    • December 10, 2013
    In a women’s bathroom at a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike this past Thanksgiving holiday weekend, travelers were reminded of a plague of the modern age that put…
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    • Projects That Inspire

    Dear New York Times, please call us next time…

    • November 20, 2013
    Old stereotypes die hard. We were reminded of that obvious fact on reading an Op-Ed in The New York Times over the weekend that managed to drag one of our…
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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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