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2014
3 Questions: Caroline Vance Bruister & Virginia Chambers, Co-Chairs of CalSPAC
Representing 17 member Leagues across the state and acting on behalf of their nearly 10,000 members, the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee advocates for policies that improve…
3 Questions: Caroline Vance Bruister & Virginia Chambers, Co-Chairs of CalSPAC
Representing 17 member Leagues across the state and acting on behalf of their nearly 10,000 members, the Junior Leagues of California State Public Affairs Committee advocates for policies that improve…
3 Questions: Emily Schwarz, President of the Junior League of Philadelphia
Across the country, 23.5 million Americans—including 6.5 million children—live in underserved communities that do not have affordable access to healthy foods. Among these are communities located in Greater Philadelphia, one…
3 Questions: Carolyn Hoffman of The Junior League of Hartford
In one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the poorest cities in the U.S., the Junior League of Hartford tackled food insecurity head on through an ambitious initiative to…
Spotlight: Food Insecurity
It’s a crisis that goes by many different names…pervasive hunger…food access…food deprivation…and food poverty. Maybe the best way to describe it, however, is food insecurity. Food insecurity is a term…
In case you missed it…
November 25th was International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Missed it? Maybe that’s not surprising. A Google search on the name results in only 312,000 hits, a…
The Ultimate #GivingTuesday Resource Guide
#GivingTuesday, the international day of giving, takes place this year on December 2nd. In the three years since it began, the #GivingTuesday movement has generated a lot of insight on…
Planting the seeds of women’s leadership
In an opinion piece for the Tennessean a few weeks ago, former Federal Communications Commissioner Debi Tate wrote about how important it is that leadership reflect what we look like…
Have a say in your future: Cast your vote on Nov. 4 and be thankful that you can
As early as 1848, numerous women’s groups were lending their time, their energy and their imaginations to the fight for the right to vote in the United States. The suffragettes…
A petition to give volunteers a seat at the world’s table
Just back from the 23rd conference of the International Association of Volunteer Effort, inveterate volunteer and AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish added her voice to the organization’s petition of the…