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Sustainable Assets: A Global Force
THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MEXICO CITY’S JACKIE RIVAS SPREADS THE WORD ON THE BENEFITS OF VOLUNTARISM AROUND THE WORLD Jacqueline Butcher de Rivas, or Jackie Rivas as she’s known among…
The Junior League’s Transformation: The road-trip continues . . .
AJLI’s multi-phased, multi-year strategic planning process known as the Strategic Roadmap, or the Road to Transformation, is a topic you’ve been reading about in connected, hearing about—and contributing feedback to—during…
We Can’t Predict the Future, but We Can Plan for It!
Are you ready for the year 2031? We’re just getting used to what 2012 is serving up and 2031 is five presidential cycles away, with more ups and downs inevitably…
Is joining The Junior League good for your career?
Good question, and one that AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish addressed head-on in a wide-ranging interview with MarketWatch Radio, from The Wall Street Journal. In the segment – titled “Working…
In Memoriam: Jean Webb Vaughan Smith
When Jean Webb Vaughan Smith died in January in Los Angeles, at the age of 93, she was best known to many as a close friend of Nancy and Ronald Reagan and a Washington insider in the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations. Fair on both counts.
But Jean was also a true Junior Leaguer.
Fall Leadership Conference Puts Emphasis on Transformation
A buzz was in the air in Baltimore last week at AJLI’s Fall Leadership Conference, which drew 300 delegates from 175 Leagues and underscored the Association’s road to Transformation. The…
So who was Betty Ford?
Wife? Mother? First Lady? Cancer survivor? Activist for women’s issues? Substance abuse prevention trailblazer? All of those descriptions fit the woman whose death touched so many people, including some too…
Ready for National Junk Food Day?
It’s real…but it’s also a joke. July 21 is now designated as the day when we are encouraged to eat all the junk food we want—cheeseburgers with bacon, nachos with…
The Good Food Paradox
In a nation criss-crossed by strip malls dotted with fast-food restaurants where one thousand-calorie meals are available in an instant for less than what it costs to buy a gallon…
It’s always nice to be noticed
Most of the work we do at The Junior League is quiet work. A project might be done in a day, but it takes weeks and months of set-up and…