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Sustainers Bulletin Board continued . . . Monday, November 23 Sustainer Board Meeting 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. The Woman’s Club Tuesday, December 8 Katharine Phelps Award Dinner Celebration for Actives and Sustainers 6:00 p.m. Social 7:00 p.m. Dinner/Program Metropolitan Ballroom Thursday, December 17 Sustainer Holiday Dinner 6:00 p.m. Home of Cindy Olmanson Sustainer Snip-Its • You are invited to attend any of the Active General Meetings and enjoy the keynote speakers. Sustainers are welcome to participate in Third Thursdays (now a social time for fun or for small committee meetings) as well as all fundraisers and community projects. • Have you had your headshot made for the Sustainer Membership Directory on the website? If not, take advantage of this at our next meeting, program, or event. • Email is the wave of the future! Please keep your email updated with Deb Johnson at JLM headquarters – deb@jlminneapolis.org. • Save the Date! “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” comes to the Minneapolis Institute of Art and JLM Sustainers have a front row seat! Invite friends and family to join us on November 5th, 5-9 pm. for cocktails and dinner in the private Wells Fargo Room. Docent guided tours will lead us down the halls of the Louvre jewels. More details to follow in the Monday MINI, so stay tuned. • Explore the new Digital Cheetah website which has numerous features not available to us in the past. There will be a special Sustainer page with items of interest just for you! Sustainer Reflections • To Sue Eklund on the loss of her sister-in-law in Naples. Sustainer Snap Shots Above Left: Lisa Walker, Kathryn Koessel, Heather Durenburger, Sara Sternberger at the June Sustainer Program Planning get-together. 10 Above Right: Lisa Weisman, Active Anna Lyon, Cynthia Courtney at the July MEET + GREET. September 2009
The Junior Leagues’ Roadmap for the Future… The Association of Junior Leagues International (AJLI) has embarked on a major strategic planning initiative whose goal is nothing short of transforming the Junior League to thrive for decades to come. At a time when many organizations are retrenching, AJLI leaders are taking bold steps to ensure the future of an organization that has contributed to the development of women as civic leaders and to meaningful community improvement since the first Junior League was founded in 1901. The road to transformation actually began several years ago with an internal analysis of membership data and quantitative research among current, resigned and prospective members. The information told a story of declining membership in many of the 292 Junior Leagues, albeit a slow decline, and growing issues among members about the quality of the membership experience. There was a need to act boldly to ensure that an organization that has contributed so much for over 100 years was prepared to contribute in a radically different world for another 100 years. Classifieds Kona, Hawaii, time share available for rent 2/19/10-03/05/2010. The timeshare is a part of Kona Coast Resorts and is a 2 bedroom -2 bath unit with a large kitchen, living room and veranda located on a golf course with ocean views. It can sleep up to 8 people. It is in the Keauhou area to the south of Kona, close to beaches, shopping and tour boats. Please check the website at konacoastresorts.org for additional information. Asking price $2200 for the two weeks. Please contact JLM member Laura Tykeson at lauratykeson@gmail.com or 952 240 4829 for additional information or with any questions! We have retained the consulting firm and think tank, the Monitor Institute, to guide us through a strategic planning process. The Monitor Institute is the nonprofit consulting arm of the Monitor Group, and works with a range of nonprofit organizations and foundations. The Monitor Institute consultants are working with a steering committee of AJLI Board members, current and past League and Association leaders, AJLI Staff members and outside experts. The process has also been designed to engage as many of the 292 Leagues and their 160,000 members as possible. Through use of current technology including webinars, online video, online groups, Flip cameras and more, AJLI is reaching out to its membership to create a true conversation. Junior League member engagement in the development and refinement of a strategic roadmap with continue through 2009 and into 2010. ‘I am proud of what Junior League members have accomplished and are accomplishing today. We are an organization that truly makes a difference. But we exist today in a world where women’s lives are very different and where opportunities to volunteer abound,” says AJLI Executive Director Susan Danish. “We would be doing a disservice to our 108-year history if we did not address the future… who we can be and what we can mean to women and their communities in the next decades.” If you are a Junior League member and would like to learn more about the Strategic Planning Process, please visit the Member Area at AJLI.org and click on the Roadmap for the Future logo. Notes from AJLI September 2009 11
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