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2015
Sometimes doing good can be really fun!
How do you break through the holiday clutter and still get people to donate to your worthy cause? And how do you use holiday events to raise awareness of your…
Congratulations to volunteers everywhere!
Today is International Volunteer Day (IVD). We are an international organization with legions of volunteers in Canada, Mexico, the U.K. and the U.S. and members in many other countries around the…
In Canada, remembering what women did in WWII
History is made in a lot of different ways, and often by people whose names we will never know. This is a story about one Canadian woman—now almost 93—who participated…
So what color is your dress?
Ever since Mary Harriman (and early League members like Eleanor Roosevelt) worked with poor immigrant families in New York City more than 100 years ago, Junior Leagues have worked to…
In Memoriam: The First Friend of the Junior Leagues
Doubtless the most famous friend of Mary Harriman, Eleanor Roosevelt died 53 years ago this month. Her early work with the Junior League of the City of New York helped…
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…
What Good Is Fame?
AJLI Executive Director Susan E. Danish shares her musing on fame and celebrity culture in her latest piece for The Huffington Post.
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…
We’ve Been Charmed. Have you?
If in the last few months you’ve been tuning in to the tightly contested race for the perfect JL charm, brought to us by Altruette, then you know that a…
It happens on October 17th…and it’s important!
If the “war on poverty” really is important, maybe we should ask people living in poverty for their ideas on how to eradicate it. That’s the concept behind the International…