• Established a two year Chapter-wide focus on Community Service and engaged every age group in community service activities.
• Appointed a Community Service Chair.
• Established a partnership with DC CASA, a local affiliate of the national CASA a child advocacy organization and TD Banks. Through the partnership, piggy banks handcrafted by children in every Jack and Jill age group were given to children in the District of Columbia foster care system. The piggy banks were also placed in TD Banks across the metropolitan area to collect donations to establish saving accounts for the children in care.
• Continued to support disadvantaged children participating in the Horton's Kids Program by providing them with brown bag lunches for their weekend excursions. Provided Horton's Kids with Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner items.
• Provided books to children of deployed military families and stocked a library in New Orleans to assist children affected by Hurricane Katrina.
• Provided winter pajamas to children in foster care and socks to the elderly for Christmas.
• Served Families at Martha's Table for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
• Upgraded the efficiency and effectiveness of Memberclicks.
• Revamped the Chapter website.
• Timely delivery of the 2010 and 20211 Per Capita Reports, the End of the Year Report for 2011, the 2011 Audit Report, increased spending categories within budget to accommodate chapter activities, increased foundation giving and effectively implemented the new Financial Handbook procedures in managing the budget and ended 2011 with a significant budget surplus.
• Implemented a MOM's List on the chapter website to provide information to mothers about highly rated references for activities, programming and support for their children.
• Implemented the AIM for Healthy Living goal of the national president, Tara Labrie, by appointing a Healthy Living Coordinator. The coordinator hosted a weekly jogging and walking outings which promoted healthy living and fitness.
• Provided social opportunities for mothers through continued Jill's Chills activities.
• Provided children with educational, cultural social opportunities through chapter-wide activities through age group administrator, coordinators and the Program Chair.
• Developed a stellar Program Book through the Program Chair.
• Revamped and updated the Chapter's local history on the website through the Historian.

Initiatives:

• Developed a chapter operations manual for all officers outlining the duties and responsibilities for the two-year period including timelines of national, regional and local processes and events.
• Had the highest number of members and teens attend the 2008 and 2009 clusters in the past 10 years.
• Celebrated the inauguration of the 44th President, Barack H. Obama with a semi-formal family event. Families were able to take pictures with a life size model of the president. We had guests from chapters across the country join us in the celebration.
• Celebrated the 70th anniversary of the chapter with a family black tie event with silent auction and picture taking at the Ritz Carlton hotel. Everyone including the toddlers had a wonderful time.
• Instituted a "Time to Shine" at the business meeting that encouraged mothers to share with the chapter members great things that were happening to them and their families.
• Moved the discussion of children's activities to the top of the meeting agenda and provided the equipment for mothers to share their groups' activities through slide shows.
• Instituted a meeting for members to learn more about the leadership opportunities at the national, regional and local levels. This was held a few months before the election of new officers. A number of the mothers who attended volunteered and were elected to serve as officers in the next chapter administration.
• Reactivated the Associates group and got them engaged in the activities of the chapter.
• Separated the September business meeting and the family day activity to allow mothers and families to have more time to enjoy each other.
• As a community service activity with the Boys and Girls Town organization, we donated books and funds to help them establish on onsite library for the children. A visit to the facility highlighted that the children had no books available to them except for their schoolbooks.

Initiatives:

• Increased participation in chapter-wide and age group activities by early development of chapter programming calendar and age group activities calendar by first Mother's meeting through summer planning and early identification of age group administrators and committee chairs.
• Published First Chapter Directory with photos of mothers and listing career, educational and personal interests of mothers to facilitate networking and fellowshipping.
• Published Chapter Newsletter.
• Re-instituted chapter fundraiser and social activity: "Spring Fling in the Caribbean 2007" and "Hawaiian Luau 2008" and raised over $40,000 for the 2006-2008 program years for local child centered charities and the National Jack and Jill Foundation; both fundraisers provided an important opportunity for chapter families to fellowship and have fun while contributing to local charities.
• Sponsored chapter book drive to donate books to Howard University Hospital Pediatrics Unit.
• Streamlined the Mother's meetings to allow time for fellowship and networking.
• Moved Mother's meetings to new elegant venue at Post Hall on the Mount Vernon Campus of George Washington University.
• Re-activated the Jack and Jill Dad's group. Established the first Father's Day Family Golf Outing and Picnic and established "Jacks Chill" for the fathers in our chapter to network and fellowship.
• Provided first all-in-one comprehensive chapter program and chapter history book, which has served as a template for future chapter program books.
• Our chapter was a major supporter of "Free to Sing: the first African-American Opera Company" at the Strathmore Center. It was a family activity and for many of our children, this was the first exposure to opera.
• Elected Mother-of-the-Year 2008

Initiatives:

• Oversaw the organizing of the 24th Biennial Regional Conference held at the Capitol Hilton in downtown Washington, D. C.
• Obtained grant money for Hands-On Science project.
• Chapter received the National Black Child Development Institute Award.
• Chapter donated a substantial sum to the Jack and Jill Foundation.

Initiatives:

• Launched monthly themes, aligned with the National foci, to focus the Chapter work and activities.
• Expanded the communications vehicles established under the Speight administration to include electronic newsletters, weekly emails and group voicemails highlighting the monthly themes, activity notifications and emphasizing the achievements of our children
• Established the annual Martin Luther King Day of Service as a day for chapterwide family centered service to our community.
• Enhanced family activities to include Sunday dinner, sports events and social outings with special focus on engaging the moms, dads and children in recognition Jack and Jill Day.
• Increased children's participation at all age group levels including teen participation in the oratorical competitions at the Cluster level.

Initiatives:

• Established Chapter's first technology committee and the first internet website.
• Began to communicate with chapter members through the use of email and other electronic media to encourage more efficient communications.
• Engaged administrative support to assist us with record keeping and record organization.
• Encouraged our Mothers to become more active at the Regional, National, and Foundation level.
• Served on the Board of, and then became President of, the National Foundation.
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• Reactivated Chapter's Associate Group.