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Nonprofits and the ‘Promise of America’
This guest post is by Junior League of Buffalo member and former AJLI President Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, who came to this country as a child with her family as Cuban…
AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish takes on the media and not-for-profits–and the power of voluntarism
AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish has been unusually prolific in the last week. First she penned a piece entitled “If a Nonprofit Falls in the Forest” for Stanford Social Innovation Review on the disappearance…
Reframing Human Services
As Junior Leagues we are part of the vast network of human services organizations working to create better communities and a better world. What we do is not “discretionary.” We…
Letting Go of Dead Ideas
All of us live with dead ideas – in our personal lives, in our organizations, in our countries and in the world. These are ideas that we hang onto although…
The Fiscal Cliff and the Charitable Deduction Policy
The Budget Deficit. The Fiscal Cliff. Higher Taxes. Cuts to Entitlements. Whether funded through the government or by private donations, it’s hard for many U.S. nonprofit organizations not to feel…