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Awards Entry

2014 Asia-pacific Conference
Future Force Award in Nagano
JCI JAPAN

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Entry Information
Award Program:

2014 Asia-Pacific Conference

Category:

NOM Information
National Organization:

National President:

JCI JAPAN

Kazuya Suzuki
E-mail: japan@jci.cc

LOM Information
Local Organization:
President:

JCI Nagano
kensuke miyaoka

President Email: k-miyaoka@r4.dion.ne.jp

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Basic Information
Duration : Aug.10, 2013
Staff : 19 members
Nagano city
Sponsors : Representative of an Olympic facility
Board of Education of Nagano City
Budget : 30,000 US dollar
Profit / Loss : 0
In which UN MDG bestfit (if apply): ?:Who is benefited ?: For the 380,000 citizens and children of Nagano city
Objective : To provide the opportunity for citizens to make a POSITIVE CHANGE
towards world peace.
To create more ACTIVE CITIZENS.
Overview : JCI Nagano held a ceremony to celebrate its 60th anniversary to givepeople related to our organization the chance to meet together.
This was a great opportunity to summarize JCI Nagano\'saccomplishments.
JCI Nagano successfully communicated our VISION towards world peaceto citizens and social groups.
Results : The VISION by JCI Nagano impressed local citizens and led many of them
to become ACTIVE CITIZENS;JCI Nagano succeeded in sharing our activities with citizens, local
government and sister JCI\'s to help realize world peace, andconsequently a local group launched a signature campaign toattract the Youth Olympics after it was influenced by the JCI
Nagano VISION.
Actions Taken :Dec. 3, 2012 The date and place of the program has been finalized.
(in the 5th Board of prospective Directors meeting )Jan. to Mar., 2013 Opinion exchange among LOMs anddiscussions on the program content
February The first program was conducted.
At the beginning of April Guest selection
Apr. Regular meeting "International interactions 〜Enjoy thedifferences! 〜"
May Details of the program and guests were finalized.
May Regular meeting "Collaboration with the local community 〜
Develop the local community!〜"
May The second program was conducted.
June The third program was conducted.
At the beginning of June 6th regular Board of Directors meeting
June Regular meeting "Interactions with the local community 〜
Earning fans of Nagano!〜"Late June Public promotions
July Meeting with guests
JCI Nagano plenary meeting
At the beginning of August The JCI Nagano vision was establishedbased on investigation results collected in the regular meetingsfrom April to June and the historical accomplishments of JCINagano.
Aug. 9 Site preparation and rehearsal
Aug. 10 The event was held.

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Oct. The project report was submitted.
Oct. to Dec. JCI Nagano kept eye on the ACTIVE CITIZENS
created through this project, with the observations noted and usedin preparation for the JCI Nagano project next year.
Recommendations : The promotion of past activities by JCI Nagano and JCI philosophy as ourVISION made a huge impact on citizens.
It is obvious through the questionnaire answers, the voices of citizens that
contacted us, and the reaction of the media.
It is the mission of JCI Nagano to continuously organize projects whichanyone, young or old, male or female, can take part in together to help
contribute to world peace.

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Award Category criteria

JCI Nagano focuses on the citizens who work actively
or take important roles in the local community, andintroduces them to the community in order to create
more ACTIVE CITIZENS.
"JCI Nagano makes POSITIVE CHANGEs on morecitizens."
This objective meets JCI\'s action plan for community
improvement through ACTIVE CITIZENS’ initiatives.
JCI Nagano introduced the ACTIVE CITIZENS in thelocal community to other people in the community inorder to create more ACTIVE CITIZENS.
<To promote this project effectively, we devised
ways of PR.>
Promoted this project positively to the localmedia.
Promoted this project through local newspaper
companies and TV companies.
<Budget details Total budget: US$11,940>
Venue/stage effect US$ 4,000
PR expense US$ 2,000
Lecturer fee US$ 4,000
Miscellaneous cost US$1,940<To advance JCI VISION;>
There are many citizens and social groups in Nagano
city who are working in a variety of fields, such as
sports, art, environment issues, volunteer works andsports for the disabled. JCI Nagano held a ceremony toaward these citizens prizes with the PR activities, andraised funds by finding sponsors, in order to focus on
these citizens.
<To advance the JCI mission;>
JCI Nagano organizes meetings to introduce them tothe people in the community to share their abilities that
leads to POSITIVE CHANGE.

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45members
92%
Before the event
The project leader: 1 member(Conducted the project.)
Preparation and attending the meetings: 10 members(Investigation to recognize groups and individuals thatwork actively in a variety of fields in the community,
and invited guests as judges.)
Finalist selection: 13 members(selected 10 of finalists with the judges from 50
groups/individuals.)
Inquiries and reception: 5 members(Responded to inquiries from citizens and tookbookings for the ceremony).
PR: 2 members(After finalists were selected, until the day of the event
they updated the SNS site daily, introducing theproject and each finalist.)
Arrangement of the site and equipment: 10 members(Arranged the site and necessary equipment with othermembers, and worked on site setup)
General assistance: 2 members(Assisted other members in various tasks).
On the day of the event
Project leader: 1 member(Conducted the project.)
MC of the ceremony: 2 members(Worked as emcees in the ceremony for smoothproceedings).
Assistance for finalists: 3 members(Assisted finalists mainly by preparing equipment andpacking up after the ceremony).
PC operations etc.: 3 members(PC, projector and sound system operation andmanagement)
General assistance: 2 members(Performed various tasks for other members thatneeded help).

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We received inquiries about the applicants focused onby this project.
1. Three local news companies ran special featurearticles in their newspapers.
2. A local TV company made a documentary
program about a person who was involved in theproject.
3. Local TV companies covered the project.
4. The number of the visitors on the Facebook
page. 2416
Page view 23882
The number of "Likes!" 22234
The number of comments 1441
The number of views on the finalist introduction page
396 to 1419
The ACTIVE CITIZENS received attentions by thelocal community.
One received the chance to collaborate with acompany.
Some were invited to events.
One was the subject of a documentary by a local
TV company.
Many of them have chances to join in JCI
Nagano\'s project.

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Award Category criteria<Improvement of recognition and awareness of
LOM by the local community>
Previously, local citizens had little interest inpeople who work actively in the community,
however their understanding of such people has
deepened.
JCI Nagano received understanding andcooperation from citizens for our activities
through the program.
JCI Nagano strengthened its relationship withlocal government and the Board of Education.
We established relationships with the ACTIVE
CITIZENS and improved recognition of JCI.
We acquired partners to work in solving local
issues together.
JCI Nagano conducts a project to highlight thepeople who actively work in Nagano city.
They made a presentation about their activities
for each category in the project.
We gave prize money for their future activitiesafter being selected by judges.
JCI Nagano supports these people or groups.
JCI Nagano succeeded in discovering people
who actively work for Nagano city.
We promoted the project through Facebook andthe media.
Also, we promoted the notable ACTIVE
CITIZENS through Facebook and the media.
This will continue in future.
It produced opportunities for them to introduce
and influence each other, and establish
relationships of support or collaboration, andfurthermore to spawn a movement.

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Persons who had never been under the spotlightreceived attention and offers from the media, event
organizers, and companies.
They will have more opportunities to exposure, and weexpect they will make a POSITIVE CHANGE in theiractivities.
1. The areas where people/groups could apply forthis project were limited. So this needs to beimproved to highlight more ACTIVE
CITIZENS/groups.
2. It is important to exploit the relationshipgenerated from the project in the future.
It helps JCI Nagano\'s projects and activities become
more meaningful and influential. We need to consider
how we can make POSITIVE CHANGE utilizingthese relationships and experiences.
We should start acting earlier next year. We also needto look at the results of how the collaborations among
the ACTIVE CITIZENS go, as well as how therelationships continue.

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