About Our Chapter

NCL, Inc., Green Valley Chapter is a group of mothers and daughters who have come together in a commitment to community service, leadership development and cultural experiences.
Members shall reside in Green Valley, Henderson, Las Vegas or Boulder City. Like all NCL, Inc. Chapters, Green Valley aims to foster the mother-daughter relationship by serving its communities together.

About our Chapter

Currently, the Green Valley Chapter has over 300 members providing hands-on volunteer service for 35 philanthropic organizations and contributed over 8000 hours to our local community during the 2023-2024 year alone.

In addition to volunteer service to our philanthropies, Green Valley members participate in several annual events, including:

• Night of Stars
• New Member Breakfast
• Hours and Awards
• Cultural Events
• Philanthropy Day
• Mother/Daughter Tea
• Father/Daughter Event
• Fashion Show
• Senior Ball

Join Our Chapter

Interested in joining our chapter? Membership opportunities are dependent on chapter openings.

If you know someone in our chapter, talk to her about getting started, membership obligations and our membership drive timeline.  If you do not know someone in NCL, you are invited to complete this Membership Inquiry Form.

Membership Inquiry Form

For any questions regarding Membership, requests for transfers or assistance with connecting as a Sustainer, email us.

Membership Information

If you know someone in NCL, talk to her about her Chapter’s boundaries, membership obligations and membership drive timeline.

If you do not know someone in NCL, you are invited to submit the following form:

Please click here to fill out and submit your Membership Inquiry form.  Questions regarding membership, requests for transfers or assistance with connecting as a Sustainer, please email us at membershipgreenvalley@nclonline.org.

 

Membership Drive

Our Membership Drive for 2024-2025 begins on January 15, 2024. If you have a daughter entering 7th or 8th grade in the fall of 2024 and are interested in information about membership please contact:
Wendy Huang – membershipgreenvalley@nclonline.org

 

Community Service

We understand and serve communities in partnership with local and national nonprofits. Each NCL, Inc. chapter promotes social awareness by considering the local community’s needs and selecting appropriate non-profit organizations to support through different volunteer activities.

We work with the following philanthropies:

• Alzheimer’s Association
• American Heart Association
• American Red Cross
• Boulder City Hospital Foundation (BCHF)
• Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer
• Catholic Charities
• Children’s Heart Foundation
• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
• Delivering with Dignity
• Delmar Gardens Nursing & Rehab
• Disaster Response
• Discovery Children’s Museum
• DSOSN Down Syndrome Organization of Southern Nevada
• FEAT Families for Effective Autism Treatment
• Foster Kinship
• Get Outdoors Nevada
• Girls On The Run
• Grant a Gift
• Hannah’s Closet
• Hearts Alive Village
• Joy Prom
• Just One Project
• Las Vegas Natural History Museum-Science
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Lullaby Connection
• My Hannah’s 5K Run
• NCCF Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation
• Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
• Ogden Foundation
• Operation Gratitude
• Opportunity Village
• Project 150
• Serving Our Kids Foundation
• Special Olympics of Southern Nevada
• Spread the Word Nevada
• St. Rose Dominican Hospital
• The Good Deed Project
• The HUB LV
• The Kindness Campaign
• The Prom Closet

Community Service

Each NCL, Inc. Chapter promotes social awareness by considering the local community’s needs and selecting appropriate non-profit organizations to serve.  Each Chapter then supports its philanthropic service partners through different volunteer activities.  Philanthropies supported by our Chapter include:

• Grant a Gift
• Girls on the Run
• Get Outdoors Nevada
• Foster Kinship
• Families for Effective Autism Treatment – FEAT
• Down Syndrome of Southern Nevada – DSOSN
• Discovery Children’s Museum
• Delmar Gardens Nursing & Rehab
• Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
• Children’s Heart Foundation
• Catholic Charities
• Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer
• Boulder City Hospital Foundation (BCHF)
• American Heart Association Las Vegas
• Hearts Alive Village
• Joy Prom
• Just One Project
• Las Vegas Natural History Museum
• Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• Little Miss Hannah
• Lullaby Connection
• My Hannah’s 5K Run
• Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation – NCCF
• Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth
• Ogden Foundation
• Opportunity Village
• Serving Our Kids Foundation
• Special Olympics of Southern Nevada
• Spread the Word Nevada
• St. Rose Dominican Hospital
• The HUB LV
• The Prom Closet
• Three Square
• Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada

Leadership Development

We build capable, courageous leaders through opportunities to learn, reflect and develop. Our leaders become successful in their education, career and communities by learning the necessary skills during their NCL experience.

Examples of skills developed include:

• Confidence
• Consensus building
• Team building
• Conflict resolution
• Event planning
• Parliamentary procedure

Our Chapter Board of Directors:

• President: Catherine Haase
• Secretary: Heather Telenko
• Treasurer: Erin Ackerman
• Parliamentarian: Erica Bozarth
• Vice President Communications: Catherine Haase
  Linda Fadell
• Vice President Membership: Wendy Huang
• Vice President Philanthropy: Alexi Howie
  Alice Braun
• Vice President Ticktockers: Annie Nicksick
• Vice President Chapter Engagement and Inclusion: Laurie Jamison

Leadership Development

Members have opportunities to engage in experiences that build essential skills, such as confidence, consensus and team building, event planning, conflict resolution and parliamentary procedure.

Patronesses and Ticktockers plan and attend regular meetings at which they have the opportunity to practice speaking skills, organize educational programs, communicate with other members, prepare philanthropic activities, and perform service.

As Patronesses our goal is to develop our daughters to be the leaders in all aspects of their life.  Starting with encouraging them to be leaders at their respective middle and high schools, to be leaders on their college campuses and to be future leaders in board rooms and/or local, state, and global communities.

Class groups elect leaders to act as class officers each year.  Officers are paired with Chapter board members to learn about their newly elected role and its responsibilities. Grade Level Advisors also mentor the girls as they have more ownership of the leadership of their class throughout the 6 year commitments. The girls lead their own meetings, plan cultural events and philanthropies, set the direction for their class activities for the year and make decisions on the use of class funds.

We want to empower our girls so that they can and should make an impact in every stage of their lives.

Cultural Experiences

We preserve National Charity League traditions and core values, while appreciating the growth that comes from connecting with different communities and cultures. We continually strive to build stronger ties with our communities and the individuals within them. It is through this understanding that we grow and develop broader worldviews that will shape and support our lives.

• Traditions – We celebrate the richness of our history through traditions that honor the past while serving the future.
• Values – We embrace values that make us strong as an organization of mother-daughter leaders.
• Community Connections – We build connections through experiences that impact our communities.
• Etiquette – We encourage and mentor kind, respectful and gracious social conduct.

Cultural Experiences

As future leaders, we continually strive to build stronger ties with our communities and the individuals within them. It is through this understanding that we grow and develop broader worldviews that will shape and support our lives. We celebrate our history through traditions that honor the past while serving the future. Participation in a variety of community events and structured activities helps develop cultural competence.

In addition to learning about the Arts and exploring topics such as diversity and tolerance, NCL, Inc. honors its deep roots through activities that allow for the learning and practice of social and business protocol, good manners and respect of others. Cultural activities are integrated into our Six Year Ticktocker Plan, encompassing the following suggested areas of focus:

• Museum (7th grade)
• Art Appreciation (8th grade)
• Dance (9th grade)
• Live Music (10th grade)
• Theater (11th grade)
• Class Cultural Choice (12th grade)

Our Chapter History

Our Chapter History

The Green Valley Chapter of National Charity League, Inc. was formed in October of 1995 by the late, Julie Milne. Julie was a resident of Henderson and wanted to provide her daughters with  quality community service opportunities. Charter status with the National organization was obtained in October of 1996  and serves those who reside in the Green Valley areas of Henderson and Las Vegas communities of Nevada. Our Membership encompasses over 300 participants including Patronesses (Mothers) and Ticktockers (Daughter grades 7-12) and a group of Sustainers (Patronesses whose daughters have graduated but continue to stay involved in the organization).

By subscribing to the NCL, Inc. Mission, we believe that The NCL Experience, comprised of the Three Pillars of Community Service, Leadership Development and Cultural Enrichment, inspire and empower women to succeed as confident, well-rounded and socially aware contributors in their communities.

 

From our Founder

The Beginning….

by Julie Milne, Founding President

 

In late fall 1994 I began to speak with my sister-in-law Barbie Milne about NCL, Inc..  My niece and she were members of the Fullerton Chapter.  The more I heard the more interested I became and Brooke happened to be listening to one of our conversations.  She loved the whole idea and said “Mom, let’s start a Chapter in Green Valley.”  I was happy she was so interested but made her make the commitment that if I did this, she would promise to be the best Ticktocker she could possibly be.  This was a big undertaking, I could tell.

I began in February to speak with my friends and neighbors about our Chapter and the response was very exciting.  I decided to jump in and called the Expansion office of NCL, Inc. in late February.  They arranged for us to have an initial meeting with the Expansion VP of National, who asked me to gather about 10-20 mothers who might want to start our Chapter of NCL, Inc. I paid the initial fee and gave them a name — Green Valley Chapter of NCL, Inc.  just for starters!!!  In March the Expansion VP came to meet with us.  However, the word spread so fast that in one week, we went from 20 some mothers to over 130 plus interested moms, as well as excited daughters.

We moved the first meeting to the Legacy Golf Course and visually shocked the VP of Expansion with our enthusiasm and interest.  She had never seen such a turn out.  Her only concern was how could we sustain this interest!!! From there, we were granted our “Prospective Status” and told to go “recruit Patronesses and Ticktockers in each grade level 7-11 for the new year starting in April.  We organized into grade levels, asked for volunteers for the Board.  They gave a commitment of 2 years to help us solidify our organization and GLA’s, remember, the language was all new to all of us.  By the National Convention in late April, we were nearly full at each grade level.  We worked hard through the summer and were granted our Provisional status by October of 1995.  This was very fast for any organization to achieve this level of organization.  We were then told that it usually takes 2-3 years to be granted a Charter.  We wanted to get this done in one year, or less.  This meant many long hours by the Parliamentarian and Philanthropy VP and VP Ticktockers, etc.  They got it done and we were granted our full Charter by October, 1996, and presented at the National Convention in April 1997.  This was one of the fastest Charters to that date ever presented to any chapter and one of the largest memberships ever to apply for initial prospective status Membership and Charter.  I do not know if this is still true, but was noted at the convention at the time they presented ours.  Obviously, we were able to sustain our Membership, most chapters really struggle in the early years.  We did not seem to have much of a problem.  We organized and held every event that “big chapters” do from the first year.  We even had a fall Membership party that no longer exists.  Everyone worked long and hard hours to bring this Chapter along.  I remember spending 12 hours a day for the first 2 years trying to learn the ropes of NCL, Inc.  I consider this organization one of my proudest moments, aside from my children and husband.  This Chapter continues to awe me every time I am in its presence, regardless what is about.