AJLI won the Award of Excellence in the 2008 Associations Advance America Awards program, a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and The Center for Leadership, Washington, D.C., for its Kids in the Kitchen program.
Working with local government agencies and the Charlotte area medical community, the Junior League of Charlotte addressed the physical, dental, and mental health of at-risk children with their multi-year Healthy Child Initiative.
In response to the startling statistics on child hunger and obesity, the Junior League of Calgary implemented a program that would become the model for AJLI’s Kids in the Kitchen initiative. This initiative, which began in 2006, strives to engage kids in the preparation of healthy meals and educate them on nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices. Junior Leagues in more…
Deborah Brittain, AJLI’s first African-American President, presided over The Junior League’s centennial celebration. Maya Angelou, Nane Annan, and Gloria Steinem, among others, addressed the members at the Annual Conference in New York City, site of the first Junior League.
“Swing open the door to your future as you celebrate,” Clotilde Perez-Bode Dedecker, the then-Association President, told Junior League members preparing for their centennial anniversary. “Embrace all the opportunities that change brings. Remember the League is all about change—changing communities for the better and changing women for the better.” A Cuban immigrant who became the first Hispanic woman to lead…
Junior League representatives from Canada, the UK, Mexico, and the U.S. shared their experiences at the World Volunteer Conference of the International Association for Volunteer Efforts in Edmonton, Canada.
The Junior League of Mexico City embarked on an ambitious mission to raise public awareness of the serious waste management problem facing one of the world’s largest cities. The initiative ultimately formed the basis of a new law mandating the orderly sorting and separation of garbage prior to collection.
The Junior League of Buffalo took its grassroots LEAF (Learning, Empowerment and Families) initiative to Vienna in 1994 and Beijing in 1995, becoming the first League to present at a United Nations conference on women.
In the 1990s, concerns about parents delaying or skipping vaccinations for their children emerged when infectious diseases like measles were killing thousands of infants a year. In 1991, with 100% League participation, AJLI orchestrated the Don’t Wait to Vaccinate campaign in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Read more about the public-awareness campaign
The road women travelled in the 20th Century was not without bumps and detours, but by the end of the century they could be found heading major corporations, winning international athletic events, commanding space shuttles, and serving at the highest levels of government. In the 1990s, a decade of prosperity, women were the primary wage earners in nearly half of…
