Mission: Objectives | Scholarship and Community Service | Progress to date 11/24 |
Support Education | ● Scholarships ● Print Show Awards ● Development
| ● 13 million yen for 6 scholars ● Cartier Sponsorship ● Loro Piana Sponsorship ● Young Print Maker Award ● 3500 volunteer hours: review, selection, and awards ● Created a Japanese and English corporate PPT to be used for pitching sponsorships by companies for scholarships |
Provide Community Service | ● EOC ● FSC ● VVI | ● 350 hours: the annual number of volunteer hours for community service ● VVI volunteers teach English at the JVDCB center, and donate to CWAJ approximately 410,000 yen a year |
Organizational Objectives | Initial Plans 1/2024
| Progress to date 11/24 |
Increase/diversify membership
| ● Target working women: Schedule more meetings/programs in pm or weekends ● Target Non-Japanese: execute a school outreach strategy | ● 23 new members to date ● 4 General Meetings in the evening, to date ● Formation of a Working Group for Membership Recruitment and Stewardship; Task Force Rec. ● More committee meetings on weekends and evenings ● 2 calls with Overseas Members to stay connected ● 9 information meetings with 30 attendees ● 2 new member coffees
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Improve CWAJ Brand Recognition via 75th Anniversary
| ● Develop content for an aggressive web and social media strategy to attract new members ● Use 75th anniversary as reason to visit new donors | ● August 15, 2024, Japan Times half page article ● 75th Anniversary Special Exhibition 10 content-rich General Meetings ● International Women’s Day 75th anniversary theme ● E-news CWAJ Historical Facts/SNS postings ● 3.7% increase in website active users (2023 to 2024 June to Dec. comparison) ● 5% increase in Facebook followers; 10% increase in Instagram followers; 88% increase in LinkedIn followers ● Daily SNS for Print Show |
Increase more in person meet ups
| ● Organize 3 wine and cheese events over the next 12 months ● Ask committees and SIGs to mix Zoom and in-person meetings
| ● February Wine and Cheese -80 ● Georgian Wine Tasting in June- cultural program ● Nine 75th Anniversary Fundraisers/gatherings ● Committee outings (Scholarship, Cultural Programs, PS, Hiking Group, Reading Group) ● 101 attendees at the PS Opening ● Get Together for 72 during the Print Show Week |
Lighten the workload | ● Test the feasibility of an internship ● Consider new apps that save volunteer time | ● Intern secured ● Google Workshops ● Work begun with Service Grant- Japan, non-profit pro bono advisory for organizational efficiency ● Pilot test of Stripe by Membership Team ● PS applications- streamlined online process ● Scholarship applications- process streamlined ● Scholarship working group
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