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VOTE! But first you have to register!

By AJLI Editorial Staff September 13, 2016 5:29 PM Tags: League of Women Voters, National Voter Registration Day, Nonprofit VOTE, NVRD, Vision 2020 Posted in: Civic Leadership | No Comments »

It’s no secret that a significant election is scheduled for November 8^th. Voters may not be eligible to vote, however, unless they are registered. This is the drive behind National Voter Registration Day on September 27^th.… Read more

Children

Who Feeds Hungry Kids in Summer?

By AJLI Editorial Staff July 25, 2016 11:37 AM Tags: childhood nutrition, Feed The Children, Feeding America, Kids in the Kitchen, No Kid Hungry Posted in: Children | No Comments »

It’s a good question. According to the USDA, more than 22 million schoolchildren are eligible for free or reduced-price meals during the year through the National School Lunch Program, but during the summer, only 1 in 6 of those … Read more

Women

It All Began in a Place Called Seneca Falls

By AJLI Editorial Staff July 19, 2016 12:59 PM Tags: 19th amendment, National Women's Hall of Fame, National Women's History Museum, Seneca Falls Convention, women's suffrage Posted in: Women | No Comments »

American women gained the right to vote in 1920, with the adoption of the 19^th Amendment and its ban on denying women the right to vote on the basis of sex.

But the road to women’s suffrage actually started … Read more

Women

Never tell a woman something can’t be done

By Guest Author July 11, 2016 11:34 AM Tags: Lynn Yeakel, Vision 2020 Posted in: Women | No Comments »

This guest post is by Lynn Yeakel, founder and president of Vision 2020, a national coalition of organizations and individuals working together to achieve economic, political and social equality for women. She is a long-time member of the … Read more

Civic Leadership

Nonprofits and the ‘Promise of America’

By Guest Author June 23, 2016 4:01 PM Tags: Catholic Charities USA, Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, nonprofits, refugees Posted in: Civic Leadership | No Comments »

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 refugees. Currently President & CEO of the Community Foundation … Read more