Strategic Plan

Mission: The Fort Bend Junior Service League is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, to developing the potential of women and to improving the Fort Bend County community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable as well providing an atmosphere of friendliness, goodwill and camaraderie for all members.

Value: The Fort Bend Junior Service League, as the area’s leading women’s volunteer service organization, holds as its core values:

• Providing a meaningful impact on our community’s needs

• Recognizing our members as our most valuable asset

• Strengthening our financial resources for our community’s needs

• Embracing cultural diversity

• Maintaining our tradition of excellence

• Training highly effective volunteers

• Empowering women to be leaders

• Offering the fellowship of volunteering with other women

• Building on our past accomplishments

Vision: The Fort Bend Junior Service League will improve Fort Bend County by providing trained and effective volunteers to worthy charitable organizations through our volunteer and fundraising efforts. We will be a leading organization in Fort Bend County that provides such charitable resources.

The League is a growing organization of women dedicated to providing volunteer services, leadership and philanthropy to enrich Fort Bend County. FBJSL is widely recognized for its compassion, integrity and steadfast involvement in community outreach.

Goals:

• Define and develop community programs and align community needs with member needs and talents

• Attract and retain dedicated volunteers to strengthen membership and build pride in our organization

• Actively seek out new philanthropic and development opportunities in Fort Bend County to maximize our effect on the community

• Build Sustainer membership and utilize these members creatively in the community and as an invaluable resource to the League

• Examine overall League financial and volunteer support to ensure maximum community impact

• Continue efforts to increase the cultural diversity of the League and collaborate with diverse community programs to effect social change

• Educate the community regarding the League’s ability to provide financial and volunteer services

• Increase awareness of leadership opportunities within the League and effectively train our members to assure ownership of their volunteer commitments

Position Statements

Aging: The League is committed to supporting and promoting programs and services that benefit the physical, economic, mental, emotional, intellectual and social well being of senior adults.

Arts and Cultural Enrichment: The League is committed to the development, support and accessibility of the arts and encourages the availability of cultural opportunities to all members of the community.

Children: The League is committed to ensuring that children and their families have access to opportunities and services essential for the child’s physical, intellectual, emotional, mental and social growth, and supports such opportunities and services.

Diversity: The League is committed to supporting efforts to create a greater appreciation of similarities and understanding the value of differences in all people. The League will support programs and services which reflect awareness of the increasing racial, religious and ethnic diversity of the Fort Bend area.

Education: The League supports and promotes quality education and is committed to using its resources to positively impact the education of all children and adults. We, therefore, will support community efforts, legislative initiatives and judicial action, which promote quality education for all members of the community.

Environment: The League is committed to promoting environmental awareness and encouraging responsibility in the attainment of a safer, cleaner and healthier environment in order to protect, enhance and preserve the quality of life today and for future generations.

Health: The League is committed to supporting quality, affordable health and human services and comprehensive health education for every state of life and for all people in the Fort Bend Community.

Socio-Economic Development: The League is committed to supporting education, advocacy and action to meet the short-term needs of the economically disadvantaged and to aid in developing long-term solution

Violence: The League is committed to the elimination of violence by supporting programs and services designed to understand the problem of violence, to assist, educate and protect the victim, and to work effectively with the abuser and/or potential abuser.

volunteerism: The League is committed to volunteerism and will support efforts to ensure the future of volunteers in the community and the promotion of trained volunteers in direct community service.

Women: The League supports and promotes efforts, which it deems appropriate to ensure the intellectual, economic, social, mental, physical and emotional well-being of women.