Anne McDonald Milling gets Junior Championships Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award in 2012
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012New York, NY (PRWEB) April 24, 2012
Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. Announced today that Anne McDonald Milling, a former president and Sustainer of the Year Junior League of New Orleans was awarded the 2012 Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award for the life of crime, both within its league and within the Greater New Orleans community. Award was made in 90 AJLIs annual conference in San Francisco on April 20.
Mary Harriman Award is awarded to junior league members whose Leadership as the 111-year mission, organization, vision and values. Past winners include former Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor, Martha Rivers Ingram, chairman of Vanderbilt University Board of Trustees and noted philanthropist and patron of the arts; Karen Cullen Luke, lifelong civic leaders in Oklahoma City and vice chairman of the Committee that built Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum, and last years winner, Shawsie Branton, life long community activist and volunteer in Kansas City, Missouri.
AJLI President delly Beekman said Anna is nothing less than the center. She is passionate and disciplined volunteer whos never met a Noble cause she was not behind: a reformer who is relentlessly Renegade dedicated to health and welfare of its community, and persuasive advocate who uses her people skills, her network, her voice to make a positive impact on her and Enduring beloved city of New Orleans.
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. Milling advocacy community faces Covered everything from famine to AIDS, good government ethics reform, Coastal Restoration of diversity and inclusion. She came to national prominence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with the now famous initiative called Women of the Storm. The cultural, economic and socially diverse group of 130 women, Ms. Milling traveled to Washington to extend personal invitations to members of Congress to tour the destruction firsthand storms. Born January witnessed the magnitude of the tragedy, these legislative leaders Approved finally end the Housing Rehabilitation for critical initiative for the citizens of New Orleans. The women of storm movement continues today with a focus on drawing the Encyclopedia of Congress, media and opinion leaders to the needs of New Orleans, South Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award
In 1901, 19-year-old rookie with a social conscience 80 of her peers gathered to improve the living conditions of poor immigrants in New York Citys Lower East Side, forming the first Junior League. Eighty-nine years later, in 1990, the AJLI Board of Directors created the Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award as a way for face recognition Junior League member volunteer efforts embody Mary Whose Harrimans pioneering spirit, her sense of social responsibility and its ability to motivate others to share their talents through effective volunteer action. It servesa today as a link to our rich heritage and tradition Mary runs.
The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc.
Founded in 1901 by the New Yorker and social activism pioneer, Mary Harriman, the junior leagues are nonprofit charitable organizations of women, developed as civic leaders, creating demonstrable community impact.
Today, the Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI) consists of more than 155,000 in 293 Junior Leagues Women throughou Canada, Mexico, UK and USA. Together, they represent one of the larges, most effective volunteer organizations in the world.