The FJMC Quality Club Award was developed to strengthen and encourage member clubs to offer a variety of activities at the local level and to participate in regional and FJMC programs. The FJMC Quality Club Award is given each year to member clubs who meet established criteria at the International, Regional and local levels. The criteria also are a blueprint for a club to follow in planning its yearly programming. The award, an engraved 15 year perpetual plaque, is presented in even numbered years at a regional event and in odd numbered years at the FJMC Biennial Convention.
International Level (4 required and need 1 of the other 4)
*1. Registration for the World Wide Wrap
*2. Purchasing and distributing FJMC Yom HaShoah Yellow Candles™
*3. Having dues paid in full to the FJMC as of May 31, 2010, and not having any past due balances
*4. Having a membership list submitted between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010.
5. Sending a club member to the 2009 FJMC convention (other than congregational clergy)
6. Purchasing FJMC books or materials
7. Having a member as an elected regional or FJMC officer (i.e. not a member of a Board of Directors or Trustees)
8. Having a member (other than one in #7) actively serving on an FJMC committee
Regional and Club Levels (1 required and need 9 of the other 15)
*1. Having a member attending an FJMC consultant-led regional or individual club training, OR a regional retreat. (The January 2010 LDI and Keruv training will count for this criteria.)
2. Having a member attending a regional honoree program, such as a man-of-the-year event, OR some other regional event that is not training
3. Holding a program to enhance Jewish observance (other than distributing candles or holding a Wrap) (Examples: Hebrew Literacy; Art of Jewish Living course; Torah study with the Rabbi; selling sukkah kits; Build-A-Pair Program.) This is meant to include some kind of hands-on activity and not simply a Sunday morning speaker on the matter.
4. Holding a Men’s Club Shabbat (Friday night, Saturday morning, or both)
5. Holding a Hearing Men's Voices program or Keruv program (Examples: any program on men’s health other than that counted for in the wellness program in (6); discussion of father-son relationships; men’s spiritual being; or men and their work, Keruv programs are eligible only if the Men’s club is directly involved)
6. Holding an active club participation wellness program (other than a Hearing Men’s Voices program) (Examples: group exercises, weight loss, biking and running programs)
7. Holding a Shomrei HaAretz project (Examples: solar powered Ner Tamid; JNF carbon offset program; “greening” the synagogue project)
8. Holding a synagogue service project (Examples: ushering; printing a synagogue directory; a clean-up project around the synagogue; project to look through synagogue tallisim to pick out those that are worn and need to be retired)
9. Holding a community service project (Examples: delivering food to the needy; holding religious services at an assisted living home; collecting books and toys for an orphanage)
10. Holding a father-child program or youth support activity (Examples; father-child bowling or attending a pro sports game; youth art contest; Camp Ramah scholarships; program on safe driving)
11. Participating directly in activity on the international level to help Masorti Judaism (Examples: contributing mezuzot, FJMC books, prayer books, tallisim, tefillin, etc. to foreign congregations; corresponding with foreign synagogues to encourage their participation in the World Wide Wrap; contributing funds to Masorti synagogues or other institutions affiliated with the international Masorti/Conservative Movement)
12. Having someone in place as of May 1, 2010, to be the next club president (does not need to have the formal title of First Vice President, but a person must acknowledge his willingness to serve, and his name must be submitted to satisfy this criteria)
13. Regular activity to inform members of activities and/or meetings (Examples; club newsletter; group e-mail; telephone tree; postcards; regular program advertising in synagogue newsletter)
14. Has a written and adopted budget for the 2009-10 program year
15. Has a published calendar of activities for the 2009-10 program year
16. Participated in a joint program with another Men's Club (other than a regional activity) (can be with a Men's Club outside of the Conservative Movement) Name(s) of other Men’s Clubs must be submitted to satisfy this criterion.
THE EXTENT OF A CLUB’S ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE SENT TO SANDY VICTOR AT
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….so that it is received no later than June 1, 2010.
