Posts by year
2012
Sadness and Questions
This weekend I delivered packages of food and toys to families in need in Brooklyn. As the excited children greeted me at their apartment doors, I could not help but…
A Slow Battle for the Young and Overweight
Recently published reports show declines in the rates of obesity among children in both urban metropolises and smaller cities and towns. Though preliminary and confined for the most part to…
What is the value of a trained civic leader?
That’s a question we ask ourselves a lot at AJLI. And the answer is (drum roll, please!) a great deal, even if difficult to measure in traditional professional terms. Voluntarism…
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…
The Junior League of Richmond Locker
This summer, Thomas Jefferson High School (TJ), hired a new football coach. There was a short article in the paper, and it mentioned that TJ had very few resources and…
Life on the Streets
As November, National Adoption Month, draws to a close, it seems appropriate to contemplate the challenges faced by the hundreds of thousands of children in foster care in the United…
The good news is that we are living longer
The 2010 census had some interesting things to say on the subject. First, more people were 65 years and over in 2010 – 40.3 million, with 13.1 million aged 75-84…
Stiff Penalties for Record Spill
On November 15, British Petroleum plead guilty to 14 criminal charges in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the worst environmental disasters…
Who is Ariel Grace Batungbacal?
There may still be a few people who cling to the old stereotype of Junior League members as women of a certain age who wear white gloves and pearls at…
So much to be grateful for…Thanksgiving in the United States
Thanksgiving in the United States is a time when we not only enjoy a bounty of good food and drink—and the company of those important to us—but also when we…