JB Report 2015

JB Report 2015Tying it all together

JB Report 2015

Section 2: What We Accomplished This Year

Section 3: Chapter and Region Highlights

Section 4: JB Pictograph

Section 5: Our Future Leadership

What We’ll Be Talking About

Section 1: The Who of JB USA


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Documents

• 8 Publications including three issues of the JB Newsletter

• Total of 46,498 words.

• The Great Gatsby: 47,094 words

JB USA ! 1

JB USA

Dorris Allen

Chapter Building 1102.1

18 October 2015

Midterm 1

For us, “we work because it’s necessary” is only answering only part of the question.

The fact that without us, JB USA wouldn’t exist gives us daily motivation, but for us, it’s not

comprehensive. Our world today is often concerned with the difficulty of defining a person to a

finite, and oftentimes small and inconsequential identity—their job. For those of us who find

ourselves getting more and more involved, though, our work in CISV is not enclosing. Instead

of defining ourselves by the work we do in CISV, we see ourselves as contributing our identity,

as donating our personality and perspective, to a vast network whose organizational culture and

mission allow us to make a meaningful difference, and which continues to create a meaningful

difference in us. In this way, we work not only to keep JB USA alive, but to keep something

alive in us formed long ago, on the 27th day of village, on the first night of our first minicamp, in

some country we’d never been to with friends we’d just met.

We work because CISV has had such an immeasurable impact on our lives and in shaping

who we are has irrevocably linked us to each other. We work to maintain this link which for us

reminds us and assures us of that portion of us we cherish and which is there only because of the

experiences we have had and the people we have met through CISV.

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JB USA WORKS

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Junior Branch Presidents●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● The Junior Branch Presidents lead the 21 Junior Branch chapters of JB USA. As a crucial part of the JB USA structure, JB Presidents make sure that their respective local chapters are active and thriving JBs. The JB Presidents also elect most of the JB USA leadership, including the NJRs, the NJBoT, the NJBAD, and the JB Director. The JB Presidents also choose the recipient of the annual “JBer for Life” award.!

National Junior Representatives (NJRs)●● The Senior and Junior National Junior Representatives (NJRs) act as the heads of JB USA and administer the proceedings of our Junior Branch. In addition to maintaining the quality of all JB development and trainings, the NJRs also manage the budget of JB USA. The NJRs are the representatives of JB USA to the International Junior Branch, acting in the interest of JB USA in any governing procedures and communicating all necessary information to JB USA. They also manage JB USA’s communications and work with CISV USA committees. Finally, the NJRs develop the visioning for JB USA and work throughout the year to make JB USA the best it can possibly be! Junior Branch Director● The Junior Branch Director is the voice of the Junior Branch on CISV USA’s Board of Directors. As a full voting member of the Board, the JB Director helps govern the proceedings of CISV USA. The JB Director works very closely with the NJRs to ensure that the interests of JB USA are being represented on the Board of Directors. National Youth Committee (NYC)●●●●● The National Youth Committee (NYC) is one of the essential organs of JB USA. Chaired by the Senior NJR, the NYC is a 5 member committee in charge of developing and facilitating training programs for JB USA that are implemented during the Chapter Development Workshops and the National Junior Branch Meeting. The members of NYC also act as regional liaisons to the 5 regions of JB USA and work to ensure that JB USA is meeting all of the local chapters’ needs. National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT)●●●●●●●●● The National Junior Board of Trustees (NJBoT) is the governing board of JB USA. Chaired by the Junior NJR, the NJBoT is a 9 member board comprised of the National Junior Branch Advisor, 5 Regional Representatives, and 3 Members at Large. The NJBoT works to develop any new procedures and policies that they see are necessary to develop JB USA as a Junior Branch.

National Junior Branch Advisor (NJBAd)● The National Junior Branch Advisor (NJBAd) is the adult member of the JB USA structure. In addition to offering the adult perspective on the NJBoT, the NJBAd supports the Local Junior Branch Advisors of JB USA.

National Mini Camp Committee (NMCC)●●●●●●●!The National Mini Camp Committee (NMCC) is another committee that makes up the JB USA structure. Chaired by the National Mini Camp Committee Chair with help from the Past Chair, the NMCC plans JB USA’s annual National Mini Camp, which takes place every year during Memorial Day Weekend.

Project Managers Julia Beasley and Lizzie Smith, NJBoT’s two Project Managers help JBers start and develop national and international projects. These projects engage and advance JB USA and IJB.

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Newsletter Editors Sofia Goodman and Sammy Spencer collect articles for, write for, design, and edit JB USA’s newsletter. Issues of the newsletter are released several times per year.

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Motion Manager Dani Gurevitch, the Motion Manager for NJBoT, encourages, oversees and assists with the creation of motions for JB USA. If you want to write a motion, talk to her.

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●●Project Managers Julia Beasley Lizzie Smith

Fundraising Coordinator Aliza Glatter, the Fundraising Coordinator, is in charge of raising funds for JB USA and assisting individual chapters within JB USA in their own fundraising.

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Local JB Training Coordinator Vivian Sabla, NJBoT’s Local JB Training Coordinator, helps JBs coordinate Local JB Trainings around the country.

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Communications Coordinator Charlie Wolfson, the Communications Coordinator, relays all of the work NJBoT does to JB USA and ensures that the NJBoT is accessible and visible.

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National JB Advisor Nancy Golio, the National JB Advisor, serves as an adult perspective for the NJBoT and assists all of the JB Advisors within JB USA.

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●Motion Manager Dani Gurevitch

●●Newsletter Editors Sofia Goodman Sammy Spencer

●Fundraising Coordinator Aliza Glatter

●Local JB Training Coordinator Vivian Sabla

●Communications Coordinator Charlie Wolfson

●National JB Advisor Nancy Golio

Mission Statement: To foster the growth and development of JB USA through visioning, innovation, and legislation.

JB-Adult Relations Guide

Written with collaboration between:

Tait Anberg, CISV USA Board of Directors Julia Beasley, National Junior Board of Trustees

Rachel Buff, National Junior Representative Nancy Golio, National Junior Branch Advisor

Daniel Krajnak, National Junior Representative Lizzie Smith, National Junior Board of Trustees

Amanda Stegner, CISV USA Board of Directors Chris Warner, CISV USA Board of Directors

Local. JB. Training.

2015 Curriculum

1 Recruitment & Retention / Activity Attendance

Attitudes: Willingness to think of creative solutions to recruitment and retention issues. Skills: Ability to gain effective attendance to events and sustainable JB membership.Knowledge: Understanding of methods and best practices for recruitment and retention.

Local One Year Plan JB USA Template

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction — Page 4. Read it or skip it. Just some useful information, like the secret formulas to being a good JB president.

Our JB Chapter— Page 6. A quick self-assessment.

National and International Involvement — Page 10. How can you make sure your chapter feels like it’s a part of JB USA and IJB?

Mosaic and LMO Projects — Page 13. How can your JB reach out to your local community?

Activities, Events, and Educational Content — Page 15. The most important part of this document.

Conclusion and Goals Summary — Page 29. A takeaway you can put on your fridge or twitter or whatever you kids are doing these days.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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✓Build a Junior Branch community • JB experiences

are enjoyable. • There are

positive and constructive dynamics between JBers.

• People feel comfortable contributing ideas, opinions or suggestions.

• People feel comfortable taking part in JB events and activities at all levels.

• There is widespread participation in brainstorming and visioning.

• Diverse opinions are considered and valued.

• There is a sense of fairness in decision-making.

• JB activities are a source of successful recruitment.

• Junior Branches benefit from being part of International Junior Branch.

✓Develop individuals and leadership • There are

opportunities for all JBers to acquire and develop skills.

• JBers are able to use a range of different tools and methods.

• JBers communicate effectively.

• There are opportunities for all JBers to take leadership.

•Quality is maintained or improved when leadership changes.

• Leadership is approachable and communicative.

✓Encourage education and action • JBers apply what

they learn in CISV in their day to day life.

• JBers actively contribute to their communities outside of CISV.

• Junior Branches work with other organisations to achieve common goals.

• JBers participate in a sufficient number of activities based on the annual CISV educational content area.

• Local and global issues are discussed within JB meetings or activities.

✓Actively develop our organisation • JBers feel

comfortable taking an active role at any level of CISV.

• JBers share ideas, tools, and best practices with CISV members outside their Junior Branch.

• Junior Branches collaborate constructively with other levels of CISV.

• JBers positively challenge and build CISV programmes and structures.

JB GOALS AND INDICATORS

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“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about” —Jean Piaget

Activities, Events, and Educational

Content

What you need to know: http://jbusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Activities-Info.pdf Helpful Advice: http://jbusa.org/wp-content/

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This Past Year By Next Year (August 2016)

How many active JBers did you have ?

How many active JBers will you have ?

Some General Goals These will be used for statistics.

Please think about them carefully.

How often did you have activities?

How often will you have had activities?

How many activities did you run?

How many activities will you have run?

What funds did you end the year with?

What funds will you have?

This Past Year

What was the culture in your JB chapter like?

What problems did your JB chapter have? Maybe with attendance, with board responsibilities, with JB-Adult Relations, with trying new things…

USA NJRs’ 2014 JB Canada Report

Summary

Hey! How’s it going? My name’s Daniel, and along with Rachel Buff, I am a National Junior Representative for JB USA. I took a trip to Halifax, Canada in November 2014 to attend JB Canada’s National Junior Board Meeting. I learned a lot, too much to fit on one page, but if I had too, here are the things I consider most important to share:

1. Canada is cold is because JB Canada is so cool. It’s true. JB Canada does a lot of really interesting, unique things, two of which are Peace Bus and National Camp. Peace Bus is an official national program of CISV Canada started by the JB in which participants travel across Canada stopping at many of the chapters to do activities and service projects. National Camp is like our National Mini-Camp, except theirs is nine days long, and a lot of the activities are planned by the participants.

2. JB Canada works differently from JB USA In Canada there’s only one, national, executive team, the ‘Eh’ Team. This team has nine members and is chaired by the NJRs. In addition, three members, the Development Committee Chairs and Junior Risk Manager, chair national committees. These national committees are made up of representatives from each chapter. For example, each chapter has a Local Risk Manager who serves on the National Junior Risk Management Committee.

3. JB Canada has these things called Town Halls, and they’re great. A Town Hall is a forum during which anyone is allowed to bring up a topic. Some of the things we talked about at NJBM were activity planning, recruitment/retention, LGBT inclusion, and national merchandise.

4. Compared to JB Canada’s National Junior Board Meeting, ours is more of an informative camp. In planning our NJBM, we try to create engaging activities which will create conversations that we believe will be valuable for JB USA. Partly because their NJBM is about half the size of ours, JB Canada’s NJBM is much more direct. Instead of having an activity that explored the role of social media in our society and in CISV, only for part of which we talked about the new social media guideline, in Canada we just discussed the new guideline and JB Canada’s social media policy. It’s made me think, if our NJBM is an informative minicamp, when is our board meeting?

JB Canada struggles with a lot of the same things we do. It has also experimented with a few things that we haven’t yet. It is a truly exceptional national association with a lot that we and the rest of JB World can learn from. In comparing ourselves with them, we can reveal JB USA’s triumphs and short comings, and have a more informative self-reflection. How individual national associations collaborate and share ideas will, to a large degree, determine how well our organization is able to accomplish its mission.

Daniel Krajnak USA NJR 2014-2016 [email protected]

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Conclusion I’ve been writing this report for a while now, defying the procrastinator in me by working on it little by little each day. It’s resulted in a long, tedious, and overdue task, but hopefully a more detailed and helpful tool.

I have three conclusions I’d like to mention:

Town halls are a great method of discussing topics , and may be beneficial to JB USA. At the Canadian NJBM, there were two town halls which began with participants adding topics they wanted to discuss to a list. Some of the topics were activity planning, recruitment/retention, LGBT inclusion, and national merchandise. The person who added the topic to the list introduces it to the group and then everyone at the meeting is able to voice their opinions and to help decide how to handle an issue, develop an idea, or offer advise from his or her own experience.

I think that it would be very beneficial to include town halls as a part of our NJBM, and/or electronically throughout the year.

JB Canada’s structure of one national executive team and national committees with local representation allows for a lot of national-local collaboration. The opportunities in terms of communication Canada has highlights the problems with our own structure, most notably that there is almost no communication between national and local JBs outside of the presidents. While it’s not a good idea to change our structure now, we can learn an important lesson about what we as a JB need to work on. In Canada, this communication helps give local chapters support, encourages innovation on the national level, and creates a sense of national unity.

There may be ways we can have more local to national contact without changing our central structure, and this contact is important for support,

innovation, and unification.

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JB Canada 101 JB Canada is both really cool and really unique, especially from the US. There is not as much focus on regions and there is a ton of local representation on national committees. JB Canada has one executive committee chaired by their NJRs and a few larger committees chaired by members of the executive team. There are 11 JB chapters in Canada, and about 300 JBers (the US has 21 chapters, and about 600 JBers).

Table of Contents

Summary 3

JB Canada 101 JB Canada’s Structure 5 Chapter Check-in 7 National Camp & Peace Bus 9

What we did at NJBM Town Hall 11 Motions 12 Inking Together 13 JB Report 14 Budget 15 Motions 16 Essay and Conclusion JB Adult Relations 19 Conclusion 21

NYC• Served as liaisons to or 21 JB chapters to ensure a

successful year

• Aided in the planning and execution of RMCs

• Planned and facilitated three trainings for upcoming JB leadership

• Planned and facilitated National Junior Branch Meeting

• Created Local JB Training Curriculum

• Assisted the NJRs in visioning and projects

NJBoT• 3 Issues of the JB Newsletter

• A list of emails for all JBers in JB USA

• Sister Chapters

• Three National Fundraisers

• Penny Drive has raised $255. Michigan City is leading by 22 cents!

• National JB Advisor Training

• List of potential trainers for Local JB Training

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junior branch

Volume 1, Issue 3

JCs enjoy their day off at the Imagine Village in Moirans, France. This summer, approximately

Hello friends! It’s been a while, but here we are again for JB USA newsletter number three! We hope this message finds you happy and well, getting back into the swing of things as the CISV year starts to get going once again. Whether at home or away for a CISV camp this summer, all of us had the opportunity to make a difference. In this issue, we tried to create a holistic view of what the summer looked like for our USA CISVers across the board. Whether reflecting on a Junior Counselor experience at a village or a partnership with a like-minded organization, each story included in this issue demonstrates valuable, CISV related lessons learned- lessons that can be applied in local JBs to better CISV for the months to come.

Make sure you get to the back of the issue as well to check out the current CISV USA vital stats for each individual chapter, as well as some important announcements about how you can get involved nationally and beyond! Keep in mind: every day we have the chance to use what CISV has gifted to us to make the world a better place. We hope this issue will inspire you to do what the featured JBers did: make the radical decision to change the world. As always, any submissions, questions, comments, reactions, or messages can be sent to [email protected]. We hope to hear from you very soon

With love, Sammy & Sofia ([email protected])

Letter from the Editors Sofia Goodman and Sammy Spencer

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• Planned and facilitated training our National Mini-Camp

• 134 Participants from 18 chapters and including two international participants

NMCC

Winter Planning

• All three committees met in New York City

• NYC planned training for the JB presidents

• NJBoT worked on action plans and discussed motions

• NMCC planned the National Mini Camp

Communication• Continued active updates on our blog and Facebook

page

• Reached over 500 likes

• Continued to use jbusa.org as a location for resources

• Facebook: USA NJRs

• Website: jbusa.org

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• Minicamp/Workshop for JBers from Canada, the US, and Mexico.

• First had 35 participants

• Second is December 28th-January 2nd.

• Applications are available now!

CanExUs

International News• Sent the most participants to AJBM in JB USA

history, 4 of whom were sent with scholarships

• Delegation of 9 JBers to International Junior Branch Conference

• Sent 3 JBers to Canada’s National Camp, including one staff member

• Quinn Porter was elected to the Americas’ Junior Branch Team

• International Junior Branch Team 2014-2015 featured two of our JBers—Quinn Porter and Grace Vottero





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JB Jacksonville had

a karaoke night!

JB Detroit had a Cookie Bake and baked over 1000 cookies for a homeless shelter during their busiest

time of the year.

For GYSD, JB Detroit cleaned up around a school and had a discussion about how youth can make an impact on their local environment.

To celebrate Peace Day, they had JBers bring a friend to an event where they designed a local mural for their town!

JB Michigan had a beach cleanup for GYSD, and a community soccer game for Peace Day.

JB DFW participated in a city-wide Global Peace Day celebration with a bunch of different organizations there that promote peace! They had people

decorate paper cranes with a message of peace and then hung them in the trees of a local park.





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Local One Year Plan JB USA Template

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Current Active JBers

Activities / Month

Activities Amount

Funds

Total 627 158 $11,862Average 33 0.86 8.32 $1482.75

GoalsActive JBers

Activities / Month

Activities Amount

Funds

Total 879 216 $19,250Average 46 1.08 10.75 $2406.25

JB Pictograph

National Questions

• What kinds of activities work, and do they work for every chapter?

• What should our trainings focus on for a particular year? Were our trainings effective?

• What makes a strong chapter strong? How can we measure strength?

Local Questions

• What kinds of things has my chapter done in the past that have worked well?

• How have we grown as a chapter in the past and what has contributed to our development?

• What challenges do we currently face and how can we overcome them?





JB Report 2015




National Junior Representative

Steph Ouellette

Rachel Buff

JB Director

National Youth Committee

Chair: Steph Ouellette Nash Allan-Rahill Maddy Allan-Rahill Kayla Mock Cameron Overholt Charlie Wolfson

National Junior Board of Trustees

Chair: Daniel Krajnak National JB Advsior: Samantha Coltart Regional Representatives Julia Beasley� Aliza Glatter Nikita Raheja� Max Rogow Kelsey Vinzant

Members at Large Sofia�Goodman� Luke Hussung Ellie Utter�

Chair: Quinn Porter Past-Chair: Laura Berstler Aaron Glatter Dani Gurevich Olivia Miller Bryce Owens Addie Wilson

National Mini Camp Committee

Congratulations to Rachel Buff, Nancy Golio

and Chris Warner.

Thank you to our JBers for a great year!