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 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.
