When you consider your New Year's resolutions, consider how you can begin to take responsibility for your community by participating in its leadership.  

As actor/activist Viggo Mortensen said,

In 2009, citizens began to step up to take responsibility in the largest numbers to date. This year over 2,000 citizens in New Jersey took our classes and gained the knowledge of how to make positive contributions in their town's government and politics.  These are citizens who are now more informed and engaged and are able to provide the needed leadership to fight property tax increases and protect the quality of life for themselves and their families. 400 took leadership roles in their towns.

• January: Our Chairman, Harry Pozycki, was named Citizen of the Year by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
• February: Citizens' Campaign Board Member and Monmouth University President Paul Gaffney asked the Monmouth Board of Chosen Freeholders to launch a Monmouth County Call to Service. They agreed.
• February: Citizens' Campaign Coaching Initiative launched to help our graduates successfully gain leadership positions in their communities.
• March: New Jersey & Company Magazine featured cover story on Citizens' Campaign Chairman, Harry Pozycki, Citizens Campaign Board Member and Director of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, Joan Verplanck, and the Governor calling New Jersey citizens to service.
• March: Newark's First Environmental Commission Sworn in by Mayor Cory Booker. The Citizens' Campaign proposed and draft the ordinance they adopted to create the commission.
  
• April: Over 600 citizens contributed to our Citizens' Campaign event honoring civic participation.
• May: Citizens' Campaign Highlighted Municipal Energy Audits as a Prime "Constructive Proposal" Example
• May: Based on an initiative advanced by Citizens' Campaign graduates, Paterson City Council expanded the Youth Guidance Council, adding positions for youth ambassadors.
  
• June: Monmouth County Call to Service Summit generated 100 citizens who answered the Call.
• June: Citizens' Campaign website updated to facilitate free online education to empower citizen participation in the Jersey Call to Service. 1000 online classes taken this year.
• July: Perth Amboy's first Puerto Rican woman Mayor Wilda Diaz responded to Citizen Legislators educated by the Citizens' Campaigns with adoption of a major reform package of legislation.

• July: Our Legal Task Force was accepted by the United States Supreme Court to advise the Court on the constitutionality of contribution disclosure.

• August: South Jersey- Campbell Soup offers to sponsor the South Jersey Call to Service at Stockton College.
  
• September: Former Secretary of State, Reverend Buster Soaries joined our Board of Directors.
• September: Citizen Journalism Initiative launched to fill the void of local news coverage.
• October: Gov. Signed the Citizens' Campaigns' Political Party Democracy Act creating grassroots control of gubernatorial endorsements.
• October: Our Law and Policy Task Force commenced development of model local government cost cutting proposals.
• October: PBS Interview featured our Jersey Call to Service.
• October: NJ 101.5 Profiled our Jersey Call to Service
• November: Gov signed Citizens' Campaigns' Citizen Service Act opening appointments to government policy boards to all citizens.
• November: Monmouth University hosted Citizen Journalist Conference. Experts in web journalism addressed 200 citizens. Conference was broadcast in Livestream and was watched by over 12,800 viewers.
• November: Carnegie Foundation began funding our Jersey Call to Service
• November: New Jersey Utility Association Hosted Luncheon featuring Jersey Call to Service.
• November: Hudson County Call to Service Summits in Jersey City and Hoboken result in over 90 new citizens empowered by our classes and now are participating in leadership positions in their communities.
• November: New Jersey Hall of Fame Chairman, Bart Oates joined Dennis Bone, President of Verizon, in inviting Verizon employees to answer the Jersey Call to Service at the company's Basking Ridge Headquarters.
• November: Morris County- Dodge Foundation and the Community Foundation offer to sponsor the Morris County Call to Service.
• December: Edison Mayor June Choi and Mayor Elect Toni Ricigliano put aside their political differences to invite 5,000 township residents to answer our Jersey Call to Service.
• December: New Jersey Monthly Magazine profiled our Jersey Call to Service.
  
  Thank you all for the hard work. Have a Happy New Year! 
  
  
  
  
  Sincerely,
  Harry and Caroline Pozycki
  Founders of the Citizens' Campaign