One of the great attributes of a successful Junior League is the extent to which members take their Junior League training and experience outside into the community and do great things.
So with the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina just last month, we checked to see if that informal rule held true in New Orleans.  It did.
Members of the Junior League of New Orleans were in the forefront of the Katrina disaster and recovery from the first day, and JLNO itself hosted more than 1,000 volunteers – including 600 Junior League …

Because September is National Literacy Month in the U.S. – and September 8 is designated by UNESCO as International Literacy Day – maybe it’s time to reflect on the fact that an estimated one in five adults around the world lack minimum literacy skills and 35 countries have a literacy rate of less than 50%, according to UNESCO’s analysis.
Sobering facts.  But what does it mean to us, here in the U.S. and other developed countries?
Well, it means that our literacy problems are better hidden than “over there,” and often hit …

In the spring of 2009, Susan Danish, Executive Director of The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. made a call to Heather McLeod Grant of The Monitor Institute, a renowned think tank consultancy for the nonprofit sector.

Danish and the AJLI Board and Staff, over the course of several years of research and analysis, had discovered a troubling trend. Junior League membership, since peaking at just under 200,000 in the late 1990s, had been in gradual decline for more than a decade.

BP’s catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf got us thinking about The Junior League’s trail-blazing legacy in environmental advocacy.
It took only a quick look through the archives to uncover several examples of brave work by various Leagues to call attention to an ecological hazard that threatened the livelihood of a community or the health of its inhabitants. But few of them better illustrate the collective power and enduring impact of a group of women united behind a single cause than the documentary film “Fate of a River: Apathy or Action,” …

Eleven decades ago, when Mary Harriman and her fellow Junior Leaguers wanted to communicate, they likely sent a telegram or picked up a telephone receiver and asked an operator to dial an alpha-numeric code — “Murray Hill 2977” was the code at the New York City office in 1914 — over a crackly line. That is, if they weren’t dispatching a manservant to hand-deliver a handwritten note on parchment sealed with wax.

Good question. And it’s one that the Junior League of Atlanta (JLA) is embracing head on.
It started out innocently enough. League leadership, in beginning to think about ways to mark the 100th anniversary of JLA’s founding in 1916, wanted to develop a signature project to celebrate its centenary.
They could have thought small. They didn’t.
Here are the unpleasant facts. Because of its size, location, proximity to major interstates and a major airport, and major sporting events, Atlanta is a hub for human trafficking, particularly the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
When JLA’s …