Now we have a way that you can let us know about your club's local programming without waiting for a regional officer to contact you, and your responses could qualify for the FJMC's Quality Club Award. Simply fill in the blanks below with respect to your club's activity from June 1 of last year to May 31 of this year. Most clubs will not have done each of the criteria, so don't feel that you have to fill in each blank.
You do not need to fulfill all of the criteria to earn the award.
International Level (3 required and need 2 of the other 5)
* indicates required

*1. Registration for the World Wide Wrap

*2. Purchasing and distributing Yom Hashoah candles

*3. Having dues paid in full to the FJMC as of June 1, 2008, and not having any past due balances

4. Sent a club member to the 2007 convention

5. Having a membership list submitted since June 1, 2007

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 7 of the other 13)
* indicates required

*1. Having a member attending an FJMC consultant-led regional club training OR a regional retreat (The January 2008 LDI does not count for this element.)

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) 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

5. Holding a Hearing Men's Voices program or keruv program (Examples: any program on men's health; 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 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. Having someone in place as of May 1, 2008, 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 element)

11. 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)

12. Has a written and adopted budget for the 2007-08 program year

13. Has a published calendar of activities for the 2007-08 program year

14. 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 element.

DOWNLOAD THE SCORECARD AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO WIN!
CLUB & REGIONAL INFORMATION SHOULD BE SENT TO BOB KAPLAN AT consultrk@hotmail.com or Mail to 1483 Hastings Drive
London, Ontario, Canada
N5X 1B2
By June 15, 2008