What is a Sidney Jaycee?

• A Jaycee is a man or woman, between the ages of 21-40, interested in planning his or her future and the future of their families, friends and community.
• A Jaycee is the young business minded person who wants to move ahead in his or her career.
• A Jaycee is the newcomer to Sidney that would like to make new friends.
• A Jaycee is the blue collar worker that wants to learn how to balance a budget, make a will, set goals and learn what his or her own personal worth is in today’s society.
• A Jaycee is the mother who works outside or inside the home, who needs a diversion from her boss, dirty dishes and diapers.

What is a total Jaycee?

• The total Jaycee is the person that is an active part of his or her community, through projects, politics, education and social work.
• The total Jaycee is the person that knows the value of management. The management of people, time, money and community assets.
• The total Jaycee is the person that will grow from the experiences of others and will learn from his or her own mistakes.
• The total Jaycee is the one person that is the communicator, the listener, and the one who acts, not reacts!

What do Jaycees offer?

• Jaycees offer the opportunity for personal growth and improvement through courses and community involvement.

• Courses offered:
  
  • Communications: Learn to tell others what you really think while learning to listen and understand what others think.
  • Time and Financial Management: Learn to equalize your time between family, work and community service. Learn the importance of writing a will and the financial goals required for your own retirement or the higher education of your children.
  • Personal and Leadership training: See how easy it is to set goals and to direct your personal life. Learn what makes a great leader from a good follower.
  • Stress Management: Learn the difference between good stress and bad stress, and how to relax when under stress.

What opportunites will I have?

Community Development includes any project that directly involves the people of the Sidney community.

Membership and Growth includes any project or activity that recruits, activates or retains our members.

Public Relations: The newsletter that members receive every month is part of the Sidney Jaycees Public Relations program. Other Public Relations projects include Jaycee/Radio week, which are a series of radio shows that promote Jaycees and what we do for the community and for ourselves that run during that week.

Membership Recruitment: The Vice President and director in this area will have incentives for general members to recruit new members, line up demonstrations on how to recruit and will set up the dates for M-nights. An M-night is like a social during which all of the board members will try to talk to possible new members to let them know what the Jaycees organization is all about.
Springboard/degree Programs: These programs activate the members of our organization. Activation is important to provide the manpower needed to run our many community projects.

Individual development encourages the personal growth of each member through Jaycee activities and Development Courses that we can offer.

Courses: The Individual Development courses that are offered to the members of any Jaycee Organization are designed to benefit the member in his or her personal and public life. The Sidney Jaycees throughout the course of the year try to instruct members in classes about leadership, Communication, Time Management, and Financial Management. Many of these courses are offered in the form of a monthly program at our general member meeting.

Socials; These offer the opportunity to meet other members of the Sidney Jaycees. These events have been the seed from which many friendships (and even a few marriages) have blossomed

Other Benefits offered by the Jaycee membership include, special awards presented to members, sporting events offered by the Cheyenne County Community Center that Jaycees can enter as a team, and family outings to give families of Jaycees a chance to meet and enjoy activities together.