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Fundraising and Special Events:We're looking for volunteers to help with all aspects of fundraising from special events to membership drives.
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Does your animal love people? Then your pet may be suited to be a therapy animal! Therapy animals provide affection and comfort to various members of the public, typically in facility settings such as hospitals, retirement homes, and schools. These pets have a special aptitude for interacting with members of the public and enjoy doing so. Therapy animal owners volunteer their time to visit with their animal in the community.Pet Partners is proud to register nine different species for therapy animal work. Although the majority of our teams are dogs, we also register cats, equines, rabbits, guinea pigs, llamas and alpacas, birds, pigs and rats. Our volunteers are located across the United States. Go to petpartners.org to learn more about how to support our mission!
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The Board will support the work of Carolina Tiger Rescue and provide mission-based leadership and strategic governance. While day-to-day operations are led by Carolina Tiger Rescue’s executive director. The Board-staff relationship is a partnership, and the appropriate involvement of the Board is both critical and expected. Specific Board Member responsibilities include:Leadership, governance and oversight
Serving as a trusted adviser to the Executive Director as she develops and implements Carolina Tiger Rescue’s strategic plan
Reviewing outcomes and metrics created by Carolina Tiger Rescue for evaluating its impact, and regularly measuring its performance and effectiveness using those metrics; reviewing agenda and supporting materials prior to board and committee meetings
Approving Carolina Tiger Rescue’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all, legal and fiduciary responsibilities
Contributing to an annual performance evaluation of the executive director
Assisting the executive director and board chair in identifying and recruiting other Board Members
Partnering with the executive director and other board members to ensure that board resolutions are carried out
Serving on committees or task forces and taking on special assignments
Representing Carolina Tiger Rescue to stakeholders; acting as an ambassador for the organization
Ensuring Carolina Tiger Rescue’s commitment to a diverse board and staff that reflects the communities Carolina Tiger Rescue serves
Fundraising
Carolina Tiger Rescue Board Members will consider Carolina Tiger Rescue a philanthropic priority and make annual gifts that reflect that priority. So that Carolina Tiger Rescue can credibly solicit contributions from foundations, organizations, and individuals, Carolina Tiger Rescue expects to have 100 percent of Board Members make an annual contribution that is commensurate with their capacity.
Ideal candidates will have the following qualifications:
Extensive professional experience with significant executive leadership accomplishments in business, government, philanthropy, or the nonprofit sector
A commitment to and understanding of Carolina Tiger Rescue’s beneficiaries, preferably based on experience
Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading, convening, facilitating, and building consensus among diverse individuals
Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and a passion for wild cats and other wild life
Service on Carolina Tiger Rescue’s Board of Directors is without remuneration, except for administrative support, travel, and accommodation costs in relation to Board Members’ duties.
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| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
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| General | no limit | n/a | n/a |
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In the Arms of Oshun's most urgent need is assistance with budgeting and financial projections. We could also use help with tax filings. Once we are operational, we will need help overseeing the budget, cash flow, and detailed reporting.Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
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| Quarterly | 2 | n/a | n/a |
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In the Arms of Oshun needs help with digital public relations strategy and implementation.
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In the Arms of Oshun could use the help of a website developer to enhance our website, help with Facebook advertising and social media management.
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We are looking for an individual who can help create marketing materials (i.e. one-page strategic plan, business value partnership flyer, press release, brochures, logo design for t-shirts).Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | no limit | n/a | n/a |
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In the Arms of Oshun is recruiting applicants to fill the officer position of treasurer, and to add directors to our existing three-member Board of Directors. In the Arms of Oshun is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization serving homeless families in Tarrant County. The responsibility of the Board of Directors is to ensure that the organization’s mission is being carried out. Directors are expected to attend monthly meetings via phone or in person. We are currently seeking persons with financial, law, urban development, or real estate expertise. We are looking for persons with connections in the community as well as shelters. We are interested in advocates for the homeless and domestic violence survivors, as well as formerly homeless individuals.Interested persons should send a brief email to inthearmsofoshun@gmail.com, and we will send you a short application.
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School will be reopening soon, and kids all over the US will head back to their classrooms, to homework and lunch boxes. However, for most children in Haiti, going back to school is a beautiful but often unattainable dream. Why? because they are in danger of missing school simply because they cannot afford to purchase their schoolbooks and basic school supplies. We can help!Volunteers will help the team of Diakonos International prepare disadvantaged children for the 2017-2018 school year by donating and collecting new school backpacks, filling them with school supplies and toiletries to be distributed on September 7th and 8th to the children living in Diakonos’ Small Community of Family, as well as other children in the communities of Carrefour and Port-au-Prince.
Available Shifts
| Shift Name | Signup Max | Start | End |
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| General | 10 | n/a | n/a |
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Serving on a non-profit board is a privilege and a responsibility. The board is responsible for ensuring the organization has the resources it needs to carry out its mission. Board members are expected to cooperatively determine and evaluate strategic direction and goals; develop policies, the annual budget, and bring the organization useful resources.Key Areas of Responsibility:
1. Policy administration – Ensure the by-laws are adhered to or revised when needed; recommend policies to determine purpose, principles, functions and activities of Tidewater Arts Outreach.
2. Evaluation – Regularly monitor all organization activities, including committee work, program work and operational activities.
3. Public and Community Relations – Take an active role in promoting the organization to the community. Attend at least one community event annually.
4. Human Resources – Approve all human resource policies; participate in board, advisory and committee member recruiting and development. Serve on at least one committee.
5. Finance – Approve and monitor TAO finances; create the financial climate for fulfilling its purpose through fundraising activities; authorize and approve audits as needed; recommend and monitor all expenditures.
*6. Fundraising – Take an active role in one our main fundraising events.
7. Schedule a minimum of two meetings per year, for another TAO representative and yourself, with a community leader you know.
8. Programs – Be familiar with TAO’s programs; attend at least one program annually.
*Specifically, we ask that each board member completes at least two of the following for ONE event per fiscal year:
-Secure corporate sponsorship and/or advertisers
-Secure event committee members
-Sell a block of tickets and/or serve on the event committee.
**Help TAO present house concerts:
We ask each board member to consider hosting a house concert, and provide on-hand support to one house concert annually.
Board members possess the ability to:
1. Make an annual financial contribution to the organization that is meaningful to them.
2. Be sincerely and enthusiastically interested in the organization’s service goals and objectives.
3. Have a specific interest, experience and/or knowledge in at least one area of board operation: finance, development, human resources, programs and marketing/public relations.
4. Attend all board meetings, serve on at least one board committee and participate in appropriate organization activities.
5. Participate in board retreats and training activities and adhere to board duties and responsibilities as outlined in by-laws.
Meetings are held:
- On the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 6 to 7:30 pm @ the offices of Crenshaw, Ware & Martin, 150 W. Main Street, Suite 1500, Norfolk 23510. *Plume Street Garage parking stubs to be validated.
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