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    • Civic Leadership

    In a Divided Time, How The Junior League is Showing the Way

    • October 19, 2017
    “It’s like a little hippie, mini-Austin kind of feel,” is how Carla Hallman describes her hometown—a town she still sees as defined by its inordinate amount of non-profit organizations, farmers’…
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      • Projects That Inspire

      Can we end domestic violence?

      • October 31, 2016
      Given the fact that October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, that’s a good question. Here’s what we know – 35 years after the first awareness month, domestic violence remains…
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        Do we still need public libraries?

        • June 20, 2016
        Good question. Some people think that the Internet and the all-encompassing digital age it brought means that we don’t. After all, information is available to anyone, at any time, with…
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        What Color Was Your Prom Dress?

        • June 10, 2015
        We can’t find statistics on the number of girls who don’t go to their high school proms every year because they can’t afford a prom dress and the shoes and…
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        It’s not just the NFL’s problem. (It’s ours.)

        • October 6, 2014
        Everyone’s talking about the NFL’s action (or inaction) on disciplining Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice after video surfaced of Rice punching (and knocking out) his fiancée (now his wife)…
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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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        Junior Leagues break out in song!

        • April 18, 2014
        It’s either the power of social media or the enthusiasm of amateur singing enthusiasts, but when we put this simple question on our Facebook page recently – We at AJLI…
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        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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        • Projects That Inspire

        What weighs 2-1/2 tons and fights against childhood obesity?

        • June 27, 2013
        The Junior League of Birmingham’s Project Yummy food truck. Like more than 200 Junior Leagues, JLB is a loyal participant in AJLI’s Kids in the Kitchen program, which brings the…
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