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philanthropy
3 Questions: Dana Rinderknecht of the Junior League of Denver
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…
3 Questions: Mari Ellen Reynolds Loijens of the Junior League of San Jose
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…
Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award
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…
How was your Valentine’s Day?
(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…
In the darkness, glimmers of hope
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…
Who was Mary Harriman? Part 1
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…
Don’t believe everything you read . . .
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…
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…
Advocacy in many forms at AJLI’s 91st Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
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…
Should we market philanthropy like perfume?
That’s the question posed by charity activist Dan Pallotta in his Wall Street Journal essay last weekend. The author of the blockbuster work Uncharitable who headlined AJLI’s 2011 Fall Leadership…