Calendar of Events

Welcome Benjamin Warner, President & CEO, JCCI

  Tuesday, January 31, 2012

WE MEET AT RIVER CITY BREWING COMPANY
Lunch begins at noon - Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.


Meet Benjamin Warner,
President & CEO, Jacksonville Community Council Inc.
Ben Warner is the President & CEO of Jacksonville Community Council Inc. (JCCI).  He has been at JCCI since 1998, serving most recently as the organization’s Vice President before becoming the organization’s fourth executive leader since 1975.

Ben is a past president of the National Association of Planning Councils (NAPC) and was inaugural president of the international Community Indicators Consortium, a network of institutions which seeks to advance the art and science of community indicators across the globe.  For his work with NAPC he was presented with the Distinguished Service Award, the fifth such award presented in the organization’s long history.

Before joining JCCI in 1998, Ben worked in the mental health field, where he directed day treatment programs for dually-diagnosed (mental illness/developmentally disabled) individuals in Northeast and Central Florida.  He also worked with homelessness issues, developing a highly successful pilot transitional housing program.  For his work with homelessness, Ben was awarded the Michael R. Wilson Social Justice Award in 1997.

At JCCI, Ben has staffed community-based public policy studies and implementation efforts on topics such as arts and culture, growth management, regional cooperation, and city finance.  In addition, Ben works to develop, maintain and enhance JCCI’s Quality of Life Progress Report, the Community Snapshot, and an annual Race Relations Progress Report.

He serves as a consultant with Community Works, assisting multiple communities around the world in the creation of community-based public policy organizations and the development of community indicators.  His publications include chapters in two books by the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, case studies for the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, and Leading Social Indicators: Measuring What Works, Making a Difference for the National Association of Planning Councils.

He was a member of the 2005 inaugural class of the Northeast Florida Regional Leadership Academy and served on its curriculum committee for 2006-07. He is a member of Leadership Jacksonville’s class of 2008 and has continued his involvement through service on the curriculum committee since 2008.

Ben completed his undergraduate studies in Sociology at Brigham Young University.  He received his Masters in Social Work from Florida State University.

Celebration of 100 Years of Rotary in Florida

You are invited to the 100th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon on February 13, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 224 East Coastline Drive, Jacksonville, FL.   The keynote speaker is our 2011-12 Rotary International President Kalyan Banerjee.  Doors open at noon and the meeting begins at 12:30 p.m.   The South Jacksonville Club will cover the cost for their members to attend.  There will be sign-up sheets on the tables at the next two meetings of the South Jacksonville Club.  There is a $5 parking fee.


Lenny Curry

Lenny Curry was interviewed by Piers Morgan on CNN, on January 22, 2012.  A copy of the transcript can be found at






Club Activities
 
Reminder of the Blood Drive is on Tuesday, January 31. 


Books-A-Go-Go - we will  be gearing up for another book drive soon.  So gather those books and put them aside for this community event.