• Program Roster Survey: provide your final program roster that will be used to update JSA’s mailing list and also help calculate the amount of JSA dues remaining for families and instructors (takes about 5 minutes to respond).
  • Program Staff and Salary Survey: provide information about hiring practices and salaries paid to your junior program staff during this summer (takes about 10 minutes to respond).
  • Program Activity Survey: provide information including curriculum and organization, with counts of boat types used by sailors (takes about 20 minutes to respond).
  • Two surveys from TheClubspot.com. Select one or both, depending on your roles (takes about 10 minutes each to respond).
  • Plan for instructor hiring: utilize the recruiting and hiring tips.
  • Post your program’s openings on the JSA Job Bank page and other national sites.
  • Instructor Certification: encourage 16- and 17-year-old juniors at your club who wish to become sailing instructors next year to register for a Level 1 Smallboat Instructor online and in-person certification courses, as well as a Safe Powerboat Handling course. These courses may be viewed on the certification calendar.
  • Submit nominations by September 22 for the JSA Special Award recognition trophies:
    • The Brooke E Gonzalez Memorial Trophy (awarded to a young woman who demonstrates sportsmanship, exceptional ethical behavior, dedication to the sport of sailing, and outstanding sailing achievement),
    • The Susie Trotman Trophy for outstanding sailing instruction
    • The Mitchell S. Weeks Trophy for sportsmanship in junior sailing.
    • The Mary von Conta Award for a JSA member program that made an exemplary contribution toward improving the quality and safety in the training or instruction of sailors.