In business, picking the right name for your product is important. Sounds like the Junior League of Lancaster has got that figured out.
In 2010, JLL started a High School Girls Business Plan Competition. Great program – designed to promote business knowledge for girls, giving them a foundation for success as they pursue careers beyond high school – but kind of a clunky name. Enter Girls in Business, the program’s new name. Says Kirsty Houck, Girls in Business Assistant Chair: “We are excited about our new name because we feel that …

The Junior League of Colorado Springs (JLCS) partnered with Sky West Airlines for the 5th straight year to bring Fantasy Flight to over 50 deserving children in Colorado Springs, CO. The children and their families boarded a SkyWest jet on December 10, and took flight, destined for the North Pole. Luckily, the North Pole is closer than many of us realize to Colorado, and the flight lasted only about a half an hour.
Upon landing, the travelers were ushered into a winter wonderland. The children participated in several Christmas themed activities, …

They call it relational aggression. You probably call it bullying. Or peer intimidation. Or mean girl stuff. The name doesn’t really matter. Every mother worries about it and how it affects her child. The Junior League of Ann Arbor did something about it.
JLAA funded a three-year grant to the University of Michigan’s University Center for the Child and Family to develop a program designed to decrease the incidence of relational aggression by increasing community awareness of the problem and developing key resources for use by community groups in the Ann …

Voluntarism – and The Junior League—is doing well in Canada, thank you. That’s the message from Marion Goard, the Canadian Federation of Junior Leagues’ new National Coordinator.

AJLI: What do most Canadians think of when they hear the name “Junior League”?
Marion: There are two different perspectives. Where we’re engaged in the community and having an impact, The League is very well known and highly regarded. Our partners  come away with a very good impression of our members and the organization. At the same time, there is less recognition than we would …

On September 6, 2011, Assembly Concurrent Resolution 62 (ACR 62) Read Across California was chaptered into law. This resolution was sponsored by the Junior League of Los Angeles and authored by Assembly Member Julia Brownley. This momentous occasion was a culmination of over ten months of legislative advocacy work, which included writing the legislation, finding co-authors, and garnering support from outside organizations and other legislators. ACR 62 proclaims March of every year as, “Read Across California Month”, encouraging citizens of California to read for at least 30 minutes a day …

It may be difficult for women who weren’t there at the time to understand, but Sandra Day O’Connor’s swearing in as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 30 years ago was a very big deal. As the first woman to serve on the Court, during her 25-year tenure she was widely acknowledged as a careful and thoughtful jurist who ruled on many of the most important legal issues of her time.
Even before spending a quarter of a century on the Supreme Court, however, the former Junior …

How high is a pile of 226,559 diapers?
We don’t really know, but that’s how many disposable diapers 26 Junior Leagues collected in the first year of Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies® Every Little Bottom program, which plans to donate more than 22.5 million diapers to babies and moms in need in North America in 2011.
We were honored to be chosen as one of the program’s major nonprofit partners, but we were gratified to find that amazing total of diaper donations from only 26 Leagues in a total of 76 drives.
The Junior League of …

That’s a question many people who volunteer their time and talent have asked, at one time for another.
In answering that question, at least at The Junior League, you need to look at a longer perspective than just what we did today, last month or last year. Take just one important focus issue for Leagues throughout our 110-history: literacy, particularly for children.
More than half of our 292 Leagues focus on literacy and related educational and knowledge-sharing programs that provide crucial resources to children and others in need. While the programs vary …

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 three-day meeting featured new workshops, engaging dialogue, and a keynote address that challenged the fundamental premise of charity and the nonprofit sector.
The conference opened on Thursday night with a reception at the Charm City’s National Aquarium, where in addition to mingling with fellow League members, attendees could mingle with the aquarium’s resident dolphins and jelly fish.
Friday morning brought an Opening …

Robust initiatives in e-learning, training, fund development, and Action Learning are shared; Nicholas Kristof delivers keynote on human trafficking and women’s empowerment;  and delegates pass dues increase— first in 10 years
 
Overcast skies failed to dampen the mood inside Philadelphia’s Downtown Marriott during AJLI’s 89th Annual Conference, May 12 to 14, which drew a total of 645 attendees.
“TRANSFORMATION”
Thursday’s opening session began with AJLI’s new inspirational video entitled “Transformation,” which played on twin screens as delegates processed into the grand ballroom and likened
The Junior League to the “most relevant and meaningful organization …