People join the Ypsilanti Jaycees for a variety of reasons:
Some are looking to expand their circle of social and business contacts.
Others are looking to find opportunities to volunteer & participate in community service projects
Others are looking to develop professional or personal skills or find ways to advance their career or business
Our programming is broken down into four main areas -- Community, Individual Development, Management, and Membership. Below we'll explain a little about each and what benefits each can offer our members.
Community
Community projects help individuals, non-profits and the community at large. These projects help our members by:
Helping them find volunteer opportunities, and a group of like-minded individuals who want to make a difference in the community
Help planning and executing a project to help a cause they are passionate about. Many members join with a cause they care about, and often in the course of their time in Jaycees get a chance to develop or run a project to help that cause
Individual Development
Individual development provides skills training in a variety of areas. These can be fun things like cooking, crafts, ballroom dancing, karaoke, or things like public speaking, financial planning, or wage negotiation.
Provide opportunities for a bunch of trainings which can be fun, and very useful and practical and sometimes both
Many members have something they've always wanted to learn. They often run a project with the chapter's help, and get to learn a skill and introduce others to it too in the process
Management
The management area covers chapter operations like fund-raising, & PR and also fosters networking opportunities for our members.
Many of the skills learned in running a chapter, or chapter projects are directly transferable to a professional context.
Networking -- by joining the Jaycees you get the opportunity to meet many people in a variety of careers and professions which could be future business contacts, or clients
Advertising - As a member you get to place an ad in our monthly newsletter, and place your business in our print & online business directory. Many people find this is worth the cost of their yearly dues alone.
Membership in the Ypsilanti Chamber of Commerce - As a member of the Jaycees you gain all the privileges of being a member of the chamber
Membership
The Membership area focuses on recruiting members, and making sure our current members are having a good experience and getting what they want out of the organization.
The membership area provides a variety of things for our members:
A variety of social activities throughout the year
Orientation for new members which helps them get the most out of their Jaycee experience.
As a group of over 100+ young adults we have a varied membership, from many different careers, and with many different individual interests. As a group we gain from that diversity when they share their interests by running a project, or their knowledge when running a training. We run 80-100 different projects a year, and have a wide variety of activities and projects. (See a sample here). We truly believe we have something to offer anyone.
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