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Milestones of the Saginaw Junior League |
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2009-2010
Theme: Health and Wellness
This year marked the conclusion of the JLSV’s three year commitment to the Facing Forward Project. The JLSV collaborated with Creative 360 and the Legacy Center to provide an art-centered mentoring program that made a positive impact on the lives of at risk teenage girls in the Midland area.
Membership selected the Educational Play Structure as the three year community project starting in 2010-2011. The JLSV will partner with the Saginaw Valley Zoological Society to develop a newly created play opportunity to allow increased activity, learning and growth for children. The objective is to capture the child’s attention, educate, and provide opportunity for physical activity.
This project aligns with our (as well as AJLI’s) theme of health and wellness as well as the other community projects we implemented this year. These projects include a walk for Breast Cancer, Bay Area Women’s Shelter holiday party, and various Done in a Meeting collections.
The operations of the JLSV were guided by the priority areas of the strategic plan which included:
1) Program Objective: Educating the general membership of specific community needs by the selection of an annual focus area.
2) Membership Objectives: Retain/sustain membership at current levels and increase membership by 10% in Saginaw and 10% outside of Saginaw.
3) Finance Objective: Secure sustainable funding by growing the endowment fund to $50K in four years and securing additional revenues yearly (grants).
Other highlights this year included terminating our lease at our 5228 State Street headquarters site and creating a corporate sponsorship relationship with The Rehmann Group and moving our headquarters into one of their office spaces. We also developed a committee who cleaned out and streamlined our paper retention for our new headquarters. Our Festival of Trees fundraiser surpassed our goals making over $30,000 of profit during an economically depressed time for our community. We were able to place $10,000 into our endowment this year as well as start a savings strategy for a monetary community donation in honor of our 100th year Anniversary. We started by allocating $4000 this year into a 100th Anniversary fund.
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