Greenville Jaycees
Mr. Tim Rush Dear Tim: I wanted to thank you for the help you gave the Greenville Jaycees in procuring the donation of the Fairway Outdoor Advertising billboard space this year. As a not-for-profit volunteer organization, the Jaycee Mission is ''To create an environment of positive change by providing young people with personal and professional development, networking and community involvement opportunities''. We can only promote the opportunities in developing young leaders in our community with help from community oriented companies like Fairway Outdoor Advertising. The use of billboards this year has made a tremendous impact on the Jaycee organization and I wanted to share this with you. Through the donation of the Fairway Outdoor Advertising Billboards, the Jaycees have been able to play a larger role in the community by becoming a stronger organization. The effect we have seen this year has been over whelming in more ways than one. The first and most dominant effect has been the increase in chapter membership. We¹ve seen a 25% jump in membership with approximately 30% of the new members joining related to the billboards. A second effect has been the resurgence of inactive Jaycees. A third effect has been re-establishing the chapter as an important piece of the community. Many community members are seeing that the Jaycees continue to play a vital role in influencing the younger generation to get involved and give back to the community. The billboards have also served the purpose of clearing up the myth that the Greenville Junior Chamber of commerce and the Greenville Jaycees are different organizations. The impact has not just been limited to the Greenville Community. The attention received in Greenville has lead to other communities in the upstate region requesting our chapter's assistance to establish a local chapter for their community. Greenville has already been able to do this in both Easley and Anderson and is currently working in Gaffney. The Greenville chapter has also been recognized at both the state and national Jaycee levels. (South Carolina Jaycees & the US Jaycees). This has helped our chapter be recognized as the top chapter in South Carolina and been ranked as high as the #3 chapter in the United States this year. Our chapter has received feedback from National Jaycee Vice Presidents, the National Jaycee President, as well as from the Junior Chamber International officers. Greenville is now being labeled as a role model chapter and we owe a large part of this publicity due to the impact the billboards have made. Again, thank you for the donation of your billboard space. By making the Jaycees stronger, you have helped us make our community stronger. Together Fairway and the Jaycees are making a difference in the community! In the Jaycee Spirit, Brian J. Ashworth |
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