32 ½ Duke Street, Kingston CSO Tel: 926-1344 Ext: 4749 Email: [email protected] Website: www.jnfoundation.com Facebook.com/JNFoundation Twitter.com/JNFoundation Pinterest, You Tube, Instagram, Linkedin JN Foundation App on App Store and Google Play CONTENTS 04 Who we are 05 Our Purpose 06 Messages 08 Our Focus 09 Snapshot 10 JN Group Lead With ACT!ON 14 Flagship Projects 35 Our Network 40 A Closer Look WHO WE ARE 3 The Jamaica National Building Society Foundation, of key stakeholders and beneficiaries. Innovation and commonly called the JN Foundation, is the philanthropic energy are central to the internal workings of the arm of the JN Group. Mandated to contribute in a real Foundation, who believe that this innovation can inspire way to Jamaica’s development, the JN Foundation change and strong action which will lead to impact! has become a leader amongst Jamaica’s corporate Hence the mantra – Innovating, Inspiring, Impacting!! Foundations. Leading with Act!on Focusing on rural development through economic The JN Foundation not only awards grants to NGO’s, growth and educational empowerment, the JN charities and community groups; but rather operates Foundation aims to bring about change within like an NGO by developing and delivering projects communities through the involvement and support directly, and often in collaboration with multilateral and international partners. OUR PURPOSE 4 VISION OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES Our vision is that Jamaicans wherever they may be, are • We are a part of the solution, and so is every member able to achieve their fullest potential of our society • With scarce national resources, innovation is a must MISSION • Community and stakeholder involvement is central to Our mission is to strengthen the capacity of transformation communities through strategic alliances and efficient • Collaboration and consultation are effective and programming so as to empower and equip Jamaicans to necessary tools for sustainable change achieve their highest potential • Integrity and trust is how we develop and maintain relationships with each other • We are all agents of change Message from the Chairman, Mr. Earl Jarrett, CD, Hon. LL.D, JP the lives of our people, young and assistance to NGOs and community old, at home and in the Diaspora. based organisations, in areas such In its 25 years of existence, as: rural development, education, the Foundation has grown crime prevention and safety. exponentially. Its Source Centres, And, the volunteers are making initiated in 2007, have become a noteworthy strides in this subtle, model for development in five key rewarding “people-to-people” communities across Jamaica. These initiative. all-inclusive centres are designed as hubs in volatile communities, Within its operation, the JNBS Foundation: Pioneering to provide services tailored to the Foundation has deployed the Skills at Work needs of the community, including: skills of talented young people; internet café, business assistance, employed the use of new The innovative programmes…to meeting facilities, homework technologies; accessed funding inspire volunteerism, empower centre, and a reference library. from international agencies; small enterprises, influence and guided a local network of JN 5 youth advocacy and stimulate One of its signature ventures, Member Advisory Councils, at the the Jamaica National Building the Resolution Project, to equip parish level, to carry out worthy Society (JNBS) and its subsidiary and train high school students in projects within their respective companies in the JN Group to rural Jamaica to become photo- communities. meet their corporate social journalists and human rights responsibility…were admirably advocates, was expanded to The implementation of all of these delivered by the “Act!ons” of the respond to assist youngsters in initiatives, the consolidation of management and team of the JNBS volatile communities to find their working partnership, and securing Foundation, during the past fiscal voices. Members of the core group of grants, has demonstrated the year. continue to excel. Last year, the pioneering and professional skills photo-journalists made a strong of the management and team at Via the multi-national scope of showing in the Photographic the Foundation. JNBS, the Foundation generated Competition of the Jamaica Cultural a myriad of projects, in the areas Development Commission; and I commend the Foundation, on of: Economic and Community showcased their photographs at behalf of the Board and the entire Development; Arts, Culture and the annual Ligunea Arts Festival. JN Group, for a year of worthy Heritage; Youth and Education; as accomplishments. well as, Health Safety and Security. During the past two years, the And, the results of the activities Act!on Volunteer Corps has Earl Jarrett, CD, Hon. LL.D, JP within these portfolios have all mobilized more than 300 Jamaicans Chairman engendered significant changes in and matched their skills to provide Jamaica National Building Society Foundation Message from the General Manager, Ms. Saffrey Brown JNBS Foundation: A Catalyst For Growth And Development Keenly focused on rural 6 regeneration, the JN Foundation Enterprise Boost Initiative (SEBI), is easier and more convenient to keep has been a catalyst for growth being established at a time marked abreast of happenings. In its more and development throughout the by shrinking donor funds amid than 20 years of operations, the JN island. Today, there is scarcely a increasing social needs. SEBI offers Foundation has spearheaded the community in any parish which the sector a viable opportunity to philanthropic endeavours of the the Foundation has not impacted engage in gainful initiatives that Jamaica National Building Society directly or indirectly. Always can finance its core missions. and, more recently, the subsidiaries forging new and distinctive of the JN Group. pathways to social development JN Foundation is led by the successes; the 2013-2014 financial mantra “innovating, inspiring The JN Foundation initially year was marked by, among and impacting” and is guided functioned as a grant funding others, the launch of two ground- by the voice of its constituents. institution, however, today, it also breaking initiatives. The first, Whether the change is employee operates as an NGO, managing I-Support Jamaica, introduced led or member driven, through the in-house initiatives while the option of financing by way JNBS Member Advisory Council simultaneously funding external of crowd-funding to the Micro programme; industry focused and not-for-profit and community- Small and Medium Enterprise and led by one of the JN subsidiaries, based projects and programmes. the Not-for-Profit sectors. It is or informed by research findings, the only crowd-funding platform the Foundation has a channel Saffrey Brown that has been specifically built through which it is listening. The General Manager for Caribbean and Latin American JN Foundation App has recently Jamaica National Building Society markets. The second, the Social been launched, making it even Foundation OUR FOCUS THE FORMATION AND MOBILIZATION THE PROMOTION OF A HIGHLY SKILLED AND RETENTION AND EDUCATED OF CULTURE WORKFORCE AND TRADITIONS DEVELOPMENT OF 7 A SAFE AND HEALTHY SOCIETY FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT AND INDEPENDENCE FOR ALL JAMAICANS SNAPSHOT OF OUR WORK PROJECT SPEND BENEFICIARIES $90m DIRECTLY IMPACTED 39,740 YOUNG PEOPLE MOBILIZED 1400 COMMUNITIES REACHED 140 8 TOTAL NUMBER OF PROJECTS FUNDED 102 VOLUNTEERS MOBILIZED 131 JN GROUP LEAD WITH ACT!ON 9 The Jamaica National Building Society, during its 140 from nine Kingston & St. Andrew schools in the JACE years of existence, has always placed paramount programme. importance on community involvement and philanthropic efforts. And since the establishment of While all schools made quality contributions, Ardenne the JN Foundation, this has only served to strengthen High School stood ahead of the rest in the local leg of the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts. the programme, and later topped presentations from Behind JNBS is a Group of Companies that shares a 20 Latin American countries to win the FedEx Award commitment to Jamaica’s development; and with the for Outstanding Work at JACE’s Regional Competition in support of JN Foundation, each subsidiary is able to Mexico. The ingenious group created Plastato – a line of innovate, inspire and impact in their areas of concern. jewellery made from potatoes. JN FUND MANAGERS JN Fund Managers, while working with the students, also learnt of another challenge being a faced by SUPPORTING JUNIOR ACHIEVERS the budding entrepreneurs—the lack of national identification. Well aware of the consequent challenges The Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs that this could create, JN Fund Managers decided to programme, JACE is recognized for its ability to ignite address this issue, and as a result 100 programme interest in the field of entrepreneurship among participants were gifted with their first passport. young people globally. Recognizing its value, JN Fund Managers pledged to support student participation JN GROUP LEAD WITH ACT!ON 10 JN GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED Since its launch, “Tek Time Drive” billboards and signs have been erected in crash hot spots around the island, CRASHES IN THE NATION’S HOTSPOTS TRENDING warning drivers to be focused and alert. Despite the DOWNWARDS prevailing belief that speeding is the main cause of accidents in Jamaica, it was actually the fifth leading The nation’s hotspots seem to be cooling down since cause during the 10-year period of the study. Tailgating, the launch of the JN General Insurance Company failing to keep to the near side or in the proper lane (JNGI) “Tek Time Drive” initiative in 2012. Hot spots of traffic, improper overtaking and crossing without are locations along the Jamaican road network that due care at road junctions each contribute to a greater have been the site of an alarmingly high number of number of accidents than speeding alone. car crashes over a specific period of time. Of note, is the fact that many of these locations have earned this The “Tek Time Drive” initiative has already recorded designation as a result of poor driver behaviour.