Available Board Opportunities

Expertise Desired:
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Committee Needs:
Board Member

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Annual give required?
Yes

Minimum give amount (if required):
500 USD

Contact Details:
Lakai Dance Theatre
Email
(339) 224-4132

Additional Details:
Lakaï is a Kreyol word derived from the Haitian language that means, “Home”. Lakaï Arts promotes healing while remaining grounded to the idea of home; to trace the ripple effects not only of harm but also of healing and joy, through families, neighborhoods, and communities. Lakaï Arts aims to build stronger communities of color towards self-sufficiency using the arts within the Afro-Diaspora while honoring the pre-existing local organizational efforts in those communities

Expertise desired:
– experience establishing board governance routines
– experience supporting board fundraising activities
– experience establishing HR policies and routines for startup nonprofits
– experience establishing financial controls for startup nonprofits

Position posted: 04/14/2021

Expertise Desired:
legal and/or MA education policy and/or fundraising and/or TBD

Committee Needs:
TBD

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No

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Contact Details:
Kathleen Crawford
Email
(781) 608-9164

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Leigh, this is not yet a public search, but the FRCS Board of Trustees wants to expand, inject itself with fresh faces and perspectives. Charter schools are individually and collectively unique. FRCS is a K-12 Regional Charter School. Its students come from 20+ surrounding towns and cities. We are ethnically and racially diverse, in fact, a majority-minority school. Please check out our website for more about our mission, vision, and values.

Position posted: 04/13/2021

Expertise Desired:
Finance, Accounting, Education, Community Engagement, Advocacy, Grassroots organizing, fundraising, event planning

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No

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Contact Details:
Allison Burson
Email
(617) 797-6747

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MassBike is currently seeking to expand and diversify our volunteer Board of Directors to better reflect the wide range of bicycling interests and needs across Mass.

Want to explore joining our board? Complete this interest form and we will be in touch: http://bit.ly/3psHRL7

The Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition (MassBike) is seeking new board members to help us grow our statewide impact. Better bicycling improves the quality of life for everyone, and we're looking for people interested in the overlapping interests that impact our work. You can learn more about MassBike at https://www.massbike.org/

Who we are looking for?
-People from a wide range of backgrounds and areas of Massachusetts (no bike or spandex experience necessary!)
-Folks who are passionate about working collaboratively to help more people enjoy cycling
-People with the ability to commit approximately 4 hours per month to MassBike

What does joining the board mean?
-All board and committee meetings are currently held remotely. Moving forward, the majority of meetings will be held remotely to enable folks from around the state to participate.
-Board members participate in monthly meetings including full board meetings (every other month) & committee meetings (on months without full board meetings)
-All board members serve on at least one committee

What are the next steps?
-Responses will be reviewed on a rolling basis
-We will follow up within a few weeks

Interested in becoming a board member? Please fill out the below questions. We are looking forward to getting to know you better and appreciate you taking the time to tell us a bit about yourself.

We have other volunteer opportunities — if you'd like to explore those, please fill out the volunteer form on our website: https://www.massbike.org/volunteer

Position posted: 02/22/2021

Expertise Desired:
Fundraising, publicity, events, equity, non-profits in general

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Annual give required?
Yes

Minimum give amount (if required):
$100

Contact Details:
John Quatrale
Email
(617) 657-4278

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Position posted: 02/12/2021

Expertise Desired:
Marketing & Communications

Committee Needs:
Fundraising, Communitcations

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No

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Contact Details:
Lisa Tordo
Email
(215) 682-9183

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NGA is in the process of bringing on new board members. The organization is in transition. We are truly a working board and are looking for support from interested candidates. Our current board members are key in writing the next chapter of an organization that continues to do good since 1885. National Giving Alliance has a 136-year history of providing new clothing to homeless and low-income individuals. Our decorated past includes leadership from two First Ladies (Edith Roosevelt and Frances Cleveland), more than 400 local branches across the US at our peak, and millions of garments – many of them handmade in the early years – given to those in need.

In recent decades the organization declined from its former glory, with the hiring of a new Executive Director (me) and replenishment of a working board marks the start of a new chapter. Our mission is as critical now as ever, and we are strategizing new service and revenue models to modernize our operations and exponentially increase our impact. If this is a challenge you'd like to be a part of, please contact us at executivedirector@nga-inc.org. Thank You!

Position posted: 01/30/2021

Expertise Desired:
Fundraising

Committee Needs:

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No

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Contact Details:
Rachel Weakland
Email
(970) 590-9515

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Position posted: 01/29/2021

Expertise Desired:
Fundraising/Events for Nonprofits

Committee Needs:

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Annual give required?
Yes

Minimum give amount (if required):
500

Contact Details:
Rachelle Suissa
Email
(917) 923-4657

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Summary: As a member of the Board of Directors, you assume responsibility for ensuring that the organization fulfills its mission to train and empower more women to run for office at all levels of government.
Specifically, Board members are expected to do the following:
• Support and uphold the mission and values and goals of Dare to Run.
• Actively participate in defining and implementing the organization’s strategic vision and plans for the future.
• Contribute an average of 10 hours monthly
• Attend monthly board meetings held by phone.
• Support Board’s fundraising efforts by agreeing to fundraise at minimum $500 annually
• Make a financial gift of personal significance to the organization by the end of the Fiscal Year.
• Be familiar with the organization’s bylaws, personnel policies and other key policies guiding governance and operational practices.
• Understand and respect one another as board members.

In general board member responsibilities are expected to fulfill their legal and fiduciary responsibilities by completing the following:
Service:
• To prepare for, and attend in their entirety, board meetings
• To serve in leadership positions and committee assignments willingly and enthusiastically when asked
• To bring a sense of humor to the board’s deliberations
• To apply obedience to the law of the governance documents, a duty of care and loyalty to the organization
Policy and Planning
• To participate in the development and establishment of policies through which the work of the organization is accomplished
• To suggest policy related agenda items for meetings and ask timely and substantive questions while supporting the majority decision on matters decided by the board
• To help ensure effective organizational planning by reviewing critiquing and approving annual budgets and work plans, as well as long-range plans
• To identify changing consumer, constituency and stakeholder interest and build stakeholder investment
Finances
• To ensure the organization’s long-term financial stability and integrity
• To adopt an annual budget that is financially responsible
• To ensure that periodic audits of the organization’s finances are conducted and otherwise assist the board to fulfill its fiduciary responsibility
Development
• To make every effort to ensure that the organization has the resources to meet current and long-term financial solvency
• To make a financial gift to the organization that is personally significant
• To understand and support the organization’s fund development efforts, even if you are not expected to ask for funds yourself
• To use every opportunity to heighten the profile of the organization in the community and to its members/constituents
Integrity
• To maintain independence and objectivity and serve with a sense of ethics and personal integrity
• To fully disclose, at the earliest opportunity, information that may result in a perceived or actual conflict of interest; or information of fact that would have significance in board-decision making
• To exercise the powers invested for the goo of all members of the organization, or of the entity you represent, rather than for personal benefit
• To respect the confidentiality of sensitive information known due to board service
• To respect the diversity of opinion as expressed or acted upon by the board, its committees and membership, and formally register dissent as appropriate
• To promote collaboration, cooperation, and partnership among the board, staff and members
Self- Assessment
• To participate in the board’s periodic assessment of its own performance and recommend improvement in such areas as composition, organization, tenure, retention and responsibilities

Position posted: 01/06/2021

Expertise Desired:
Financial, real estate development, construction, fundraising, friendraising, essex county network, marketing and communications, retail store management

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Annual give required?
Yes

Minimum give amount (if required):
ask that board memebers support the org as one of their 3 top charities

Contact Details:
Richard Sumberg
Email
(978) 886-2674

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ECH is an affiliate of Habitat for Humanity international and the recent merger of North Shore and Merrimack Valley Habitats. We are an affordable housing developer giving a "hand up" to low income families who want the opportunity to own their own homes. We have an aggressive building program throughout Essex County and need help finding opportunities for more low income families to build wealth through home ownership.

Position posted: 01/05/2021

Expertise Desired:
see below

Committee Needs:
Most volunteers are asked to become familiar with ECCF by serving on the County leadership Council before transitioning to the Board.

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Annual give required?
Yes

Minimum give amount (if required):
Board members are encouraged to make the organization one of their top three charities.

Contact Details:
Richard Sumberg
Email
(978) 886-2674

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Skills Needed
• Work of ECCF: Endowment Campaign Experience
– Ability/experience to fundraise and those with strong connections

• Work of ECCF: Community Leadership Work Experience
– Knowledge in community leadership type work (Arts, IEC, EEO)

Other Needs?

• Geographic area: Newburyport/Amesbury/Haverhill , Cape Ann, Lynn (light)
• Candidates that represent diverse populations underserved on board (female, non-white, under age 40)

Position posted: 01/05/2021

Expertise Desired:
see description below

Committee Needs:
Racial Equity Committee

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Annual give required?
Yes

Minimum give amount (if required):
Board members are encouraged to make the organization one of their top three charities.

Contact Details:
Richard Sumberg
Email
(978) 886-2674

Additional Details:
ECCF Racial Equity Committee | Committee Description

Mission:
The mission of ECCF’s Racial Equity Committee is to advise ECCF staff and trustees in its current and evolving racial equity strategy and hold the organization accountable for the actions needed to effectively bring about change.

This Committee will identify opportunities to improve our capacity to act as an equitable and inclusive organization in all we do (internally). Equally important, this Committee will guide ECCF in leveraging resources and relationships (externally) to advocate for racially equitable systems, structures and practices (externally) that will create a more racially just Essex County.

Membership & Terms:
Appointed by ECCF’s Chair of the Board, the Racial Equity Committee will have no more than eleven members of which at least five will be ECCF trustees, with the remaining members joining as community leaders.
• Community members nominated for and appointed to the Racial Equity Committee should ideally have deep knowledge about race, racism, and antiracism, with strong experience and relationships in advancing inclusion and racial equity in Essex County and beyond. Committee members, regardless of racial equity experience, are also sought as key stakeholders that bring a special skillset or wide networks that can advance the work of the committee.

• ECCF Trustees appointed to this Committee should be active members on at least one board committee, ensuring each board committee is represented for alignment with ECCF board committee work.
Given this vision requires the long-view, Committee members will be appointed for a 2-year term, with the ability serve additional two-year terms. Appointments will be staggered.
The Committee will meet monthly in the beginning stages of this work (year one) for regularly scheduled meetings and future time commitments will be assessed as needed based on the work outlined.
This Committee will be chaired by an appointee of the Chair of the ECCF Board of Trustees and supported by an ECCF staff member and additional staff members as assigned.

Expectations:
While the ECCF Board of Trustees will approve and resource the organization’s racial equity strategy and implementation, it is the expectation that the Racial Equity Committee will identify and make recommendations on needed actions and evaluate the effectiveness of our work.
Members of this committee will bring their expertise to bear by reviewing materials provided and offering feedback and ideas to further develop, advance and evaluate strategy, practice, and actions.
Committee members will be asked to connect ECCF with the community leaders and/or explore partnerships with organizations who can work collaboratively to advance this work.
Members will take the time to understand ECCF, our mission and operations, as well how ECCF’s current racial equity strategy was developed in order to provide advice to improve and advance our work.

Position posted: 01/05/2021