Jai Jinendra JAINA Board of Directors and Happy Mahavir Janma Kalyanak,

On behalf of JAINA EC including our president Prem Jain, we would like to welcome the JAINA BOD class of 2015/16.

JAINA had shared recommendations for Director’s background and qualifications. Based on that we expect YOU to be very ACTIVE during your term. Each Director should be ready to sign up for a JAINA Project/Committee (http://www.jaina.org/?page=jaina_in_action).

Some of you are new BOD members and some of you have been BOD for many years and perhaps JADED. If you fall in the latter category, feel free to appoint someone who can be active as your ASSISTANT BOD MEMBER. To grow JAINA to serve you, your family, your community, North American JAINS, and all JAINS around the world, we need YOU to an ACTIVE BOD member.

Yogendra Jain
JAINA Secretary
781-856-0769 

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Content includes (click on section for easy access):
Meeting Logistics
Meeting Objectives
Meeting Agenda
To Complete Before April 9th Conference Call
Directors Support Tools
"What Can JAINA Do For YOU!" (JAINA services list)
JAINA Director On-boarding Checklist Yr 2015

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Meeting Logistics:

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Meeting Objectives:

1. Introduce JAINA and its services to new BOD members and to give a refresher to past BOD member
2. Outline BOD member expectations
3. Confirm BOD member participation in JAINA committee and Project
4. Get feedback (Q&A) from YOU as to what you would like to see
5. Next Steps 

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Meeting Agenda:  
(all Directors are requested to join via web meeting and have their laptop handy as we will have great deal of show and tell) 

• Prayers
• Welcome members
• Introduction- President of JAINA, Prem Jain
• Convention Update – Ashok Domadia 
• Director’s Orientation/On-Line Tools – Roles/Responsibilities  (Yogendra Jain/Parth Savla/EC Members) 
  • JAINA Structure
  • JAINA Office
  • Director’s Roles and Responsibilities
  • On-Line Tools
• Sign up for a JAINA Committee/Project
• Discussions – What you would like to accomplish over the next two years

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To Complete Before April 9th Conference Call:

1. Visit http://www.jaina.org and become a member if you are not already on JainLink.
2. Visit JAINA / JAIN Directors info on jaina.org and confirm that your name and contact information is correct. If not, please send an email to info@jainahq.com and let us know ( Is your name, center, region information correct on www.jaina.org (go to JAINA menu and look under the Director’s menu)
3. Review JAINA’s Vision2020 Goals (http://www.jainlink.org/?page=Vision)
4. Know Jainism Elevator Pitch
5. See Introduction to JAINA Video (http://www.jaina.org/?page=AboutJAINA) and projects (http://www.jaina.org/?page=jaina_in_action)
6. Read the JAINA Constitution
7. Have your top three choices for which JAINA Project/Committee you would like to be an active of (http://www.jaina.org/?page=jaina_in_action)
8. Visit the JAINA Facebook Page & "Like" it
9. Visit the JAINA Youtube Channel to review our content.
10. Please review Prem Jain's Vision 2013 - 2015 PPT below: 
    

JAINA: Introduction to JAINA

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Directors Support Tools

Master Folder

Includes:

• Welcome BOD - Board of Directors Documents (folder)
• JAINA Marketing Brochures (folder)
  
• JAINA Director On-boarding Checklist Yr 2015 (file)
• JAINA VP & BOD Participation Log (file)

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Review our "What Can JAINA Do For YOU!" Initiative (List of services JAINA Office provides for all centers):

1. Spotlight Local Jain Center’s (LJC) in our Email Newsletter that is sent out to 15,000 members.
2. Support Local Jain Center’s (LJC) with event registrations and online donation capabilities.
3. Live feed broadcast and feed into our YouTube channel of Local Jain Center’s (LJC) Events.
4. Empower JAINA Directors & Local Jain Centers with the ability to send center / state / region-specific emails for events.
5. Local Jain Centers are looking for Young Adults to participate in their Jain Center Activities. JAINA can help Liaison between Local Jain Centers, YJA, and YJP. We now have YJP up and running with a Regional Coordinator in every region (including Canada).
6. Liaison between Local Jain Center’s (LJC) and JAINA’s Committees and Publications - such as the Jain Digest and the JAINA Calendar Committee.
7. Technology services:
   • Create your very own website with www.CENTERACRONYM.jaina.org
   • Create your social media presence (Facebook page / group, YouTube Channel, etc.)

If you have any questions regarding these services, please contact JAINA Office at jainahq@jaina.org.

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JAINA Director On-boarding Checklist Yr 2015

(Please download the fillable .pdf version of this file below for your reference) JAINA Director

[JAINA Director On-boarding Checklist Yr 2015 .pdf]

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For more information, please connect to your local JAINA VP. Their contact information is on the JAINA Executive Committee page.

If you need any help or support you can also contact JAINA Office by emailing jainahq@jaina.org or by going to www.jaina.org and click on Contact Us.

 Thank you.