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    Supporting Women Through Year-End Giving

    • December 17, 2019
    What if money wasn’t measured by its ability to purchase, but by its potential to change lives? For charities serving women and girls, the impact of funding simply cannot be…
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      3 Questions: Dana Rinderknecht of the Junior League of Denver

      • April 15, 2016
      Force for Good—Community First Foundation’s online giving director and Junior League of Denver member, Dana Rinderknecht, sparked $83 million in donations to nonprofits during five 24-hour donation events. Looking back…
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        3 Questions: Mari Ellen Reynolds Loijens of the Junior League of San Jose

        • November 4, 2015
        How valuable is Junior League leadership training? As soon as we heard that Mari Ellen Reynolds Loijens, former president (2009-2010) of the Junior League of San Jose was recently named…
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          Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award

          • October 19, 2015
          A HUMANITARIAN FOR THE AGES Though she committed to donating the entirety of her holdings to charity when she joined the elite Giving Pledge in 2010, Lyda Hill of the Junior League of…
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            How was your Valentine’s Day?

            • February 19, 2015
            (The following appeared on The Huffington Post on Feb. 17, 2015) I received my Valentine’s Day gift in Guatemala City from an elderly woman living in a nursing home in…
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              In the darkness, glimmers of hope

              • August 25, 2014
              The Israel-Gaza conflict. Ferguson, Mo. The Islamic State terror network. Ebola. Ukraine. Robin Williams. From the sad and often horrifying news in the headlines these days it’s easy to think…
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              Who was Mary Harriman? Part 1

              • July 11, 2014
              Mary Harriman was determined to be more than a debutante. Although born into a family of great privilege, the path she took was quite different from that which was expected…
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              Don’t believe everything you read . . .

              • September 26, 2013
              To say that AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish was moved by the urban renewal she witnessed on a recent trip to the beleaguered city of Detroit for AJLI’s Fall Leadership…
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              AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish takes on the media and not-for-profits–and the power of voluntarism

              • July 1, 2013
              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…
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                Advocacy in many forms at AJLI’s 91st Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

                • June 13, 2013
                Though we don’t typically use this space to comment on the business of the Association, several magical things happened last month that we thought were worth sharing with a broader…
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