Leaders on Board Winter 2021 Newsletter
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This is LT's quarterly newsletter designed to help LT alumni interested in board service identify and connect with nonprofit organizations that are recruiting board members. Serving on a nonprofit board is a fabulous way to give back to the community. As you can see from the 52 nonprofits below, LT alumni are highly valued! We hope you can find an organization doing work you believe in and want to be involved with.
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United Way of King County Volunteer Website
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The United Way of King County has an ongoing list of board and committee opportunities on their website. Organizations across the county post volunteer opportunities so you can search and filter based on interest. Save this link and check regularly for new opportunities!
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Peer-Learning Opportunity
BoardTalks™
BoardTalks™, designed by Janet Boguch, LT'89, is a unique learning opportunity offered to board members from all types and sizes of nonprofit organizations who meet in a confidential and collegial setting to discuss board best practices, solve problems, set goals, and most importantly, be bolstered and actively supported by a cohort of like-minded professionals.
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Nonprofit Organizations with Board Openings
Please contact nonprofits directly.
Bellevue Youth Symphony (BYSO)
At BYSO, we focus on the joy that young people feel when making orchestral music with their peers. Our participants, aged 6-20, learn teamwork, resilience, and responsibility along with their ensemble skills. Read about our organization on our website, and learn about our open board position HERE.
The Burke Museum Association
The Burke Museum Association actively supports the museum by raising funds for programming and growth, strengthening ties to our diverse communities and fostering recognition of the Burke as a museum leader. Learn more HERE.
Blaze: Firecamp for Young Women
Our vision is to empower, inspire and support strong women leaders. Our mission is to facilitate leadership camps and mentorship opportunities for young women in a fire service environment, and to provide leadership and career development opportunities for women. Learn more HERE.
Child Care Resources
Child Care Resources improves all children's access to high quality early learning experiences by engaging with families, caregivers, and communities. Embedded in Child Care Resources' daily work is identifying and addressing racism so that all children thrive in their early learning environments. Learn more HERE.
Children's Alliance
Children’s Alliance is Washington’s statewide, nonpartisan child advocacy organization. Currently led by LT alum, Dr. Stephan Blanford, LT'97, our mission is to improve the well-being of children by effecting positive changes in public policies, priorities, and programs. We believe all public policy change concerning kids should be rooted in a commitment to undo institutional racism. You can count on Children’s Alliance to ask the critical question: “Is it good for kids?” and to fight hard to make sure the answer is YES. Learn more HERE.
Children's Home Society of Washington
At Children’s Home Society of Washington, we understand that just as a sturdy house needs certain materials, our children need support and opportunity to be successful in school and life. We exist to develop healthy children by providing a safe and secure place for them, by working to build strong families and engaged communities, and by speaking and advocating on their behalf. Learn more HERE.
Communities in Schools Seattle
Communities in Schools Seattle is part of the nation's leading dropout prevention organization, working in public schools to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. We provide access to opportunities, resources and support for communities of color by intentionally recognizing and eliminating historical barriers, and recognizing current needs, context and situation. We are looking for board members who feel passion and urgency around anti-racism work in public education. Learn more HERE.
Deaf Spotlight
Deaf Spotlight inspires and celebrates Deaf Culture and American Sign Language through the arts. Deaf Spotlight’s activities support and build connections between Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing artists and audiences through access, equity, and creativity for all. Read the board job description HERE and access the application HERE.
Family Law CASA
Family Law CASA advocates for local children in high-risk custody cases so they have a chance for a safe, secure home life, significantly reducing the risk of abuse and neglect. We aspire to elevate BIPOC voices and experiences in decisions and hold ourselves, leadership and partners accountable through ensuring that we provide equitable advocacy for BIPOC children in court. Learn more HERE.
The Federal Way Black Collective
The Federal Way Black Collective (The Collective) is committed to providing voice, building strategy, and driving change in communities of color. We accomplish our goals by advocating for the development of policies and the availability of community resources that are equitable and culturally reflective of people of color. Learn more HERE.
Global Leadership Forum
Our mission is to strengthen global social sector leaders. We are focused on building a community of global leaders to better enable them to face their challenges and opportunities through: cohort training, community-wide training, research, coaching, consulting, and a connected network of trusted peers with whom they can both share and learn on an ongoing basis. Learn more HERE.
Global to Local
Global to Local’s mission is to advance health equity and improve health in U.S. communities through application of best practices from around the world. We develop programs to improve health and racial equity by increasing access to culturally appropriate services and empowering communities to engage in the decision making process. Learn more HERE.
Goochy Project
The Goochy Project is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization with a mission to support under-resourced pet owners in Seattle by providing free, time-limited, pet care and boarding when owners need to attend to important issues that require temporary separation from their furry family members. Learn about the two board positions: Director of Volunteer Services and Director of Development.
Helping Link
Helping Link’s mission is to empower Vietnamese Americans’ social adjustment, family stability, and self-sufficiency. A position on Helping Link’s Board offers an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on the lives of vulnerable immigrants and move the needle on systemic racism against the API community. The board job description and application are HERE.
Hunger Intervention Program (HIP)
Hunger Intervention Program (HIP) is an award-winning organization with the mission to increase food security for underserved populations in North King County through nutritious meals, educational programs, and advocacy. Learn more HERE.
The IF Project
Together, through the power of storytelling, education and bearing witness, we transform ourselves, our families and our communities to dismantle systemic barriers to end institutionalized racism and mass incarceration. We are a collaboration of law enforcement, current and previously incarcerated adults, and community partners focused on intervention, prevention and reduction in incarceration and recidivism. Learn more HERE.
Immanuel Community Services
Immanuel Community Services is a small but mighty organization that provides FOOD to those who are hungry, HYGIENE to those who are homeless, RECOVERY and SHELTER to those who are addicted. Our mission is to alleviate the effects of poverty, hunger, homelessness, and addiction by providing community-based social services to those in need. Read the Board Member Job Description HERE and the board member application HERE.
L'Arche Noah Sealth (L'Arche Seattle)
Our mission is to make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships. L'Arche Seattle offers people with developmental disabilities a family-style living environment that creates real homes; a place to develop their talents, to build friendships and quite simply, to make the most of life! Learn more HERE.
Lighthouse for the Blind
We empower people who are blind, DeafBlind, and blind with other disabilities by creating diverse, sustainable, and meaningful employment opportunities. Learn more HERE.
Literacy Source
Literacy Source partners with adults working to gain skills and education to create new opportunities for themselves, their families, and the community. We envision an inclusive and equitable society providing education and opportunities for all adults. Learn more HERE.
Mini Mart City Park (MMCP)
Mini Mart City Park (MMCP) is a place for the arts, education, environmental action, and community collaboration in the Duwamish Valley. MMCP is in the process of repurposing a former gas station on a contaminated lot into a state-of-the-art cultural center and pocket park that pays respect to the site’s history in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, WA. Learn more HERE.
Neighborcare Health
For over 50 years, Neighborcare Health has provided comprehensive health care to families and individuals who have difficulty accessing care; responded with sensitivity to the needs of our culturally diverse patients; and advocated and worked with others to improve the overall health status of the communities we serve. Learn more HERE.
Neighborhood Farmers Markets
The Neighborhood Farmers Markets (NFM) is on a mission to strengthen and support Washington's small family farm businesses by operating vibrant, successful neighborhood markets. We work toward increased food access for all Seattle residents, a better living for farmers, and a more connected community. NFM accepts nominations and interest for our Board of Directors on an ongoing basis, though we only add 1 to 2 new board members each year. NFM is encouraging Leadership Tomorrow alumni to submit their interest by Monday March 8. Learn more HERE and express your interest HERE.
New Hope Community Development Institute
The mission of the New Hope Community Development Institute is to empower, enable, and support community members in their efforts to revitalize the Central District’s neighborhood and surrounding areas. NHCDI serves as a vehicle through which residents and businesses work together to solve problems as well as rebuild and sustain community. Learn more HERE.
NFFTY
NFFTY advances and connects talented young filmmakers worldwide. Learn more HERE and apply HERE.
Northwest Art Alliance
At NW Art Alliance we believe that Artists and Makers lead us to a better world, challenge our thinking, provide new visions of how we can succeed together. Our mission is to provide opportunities to develop and nurture our northwest artists of all ages and all cultures. Learn more HERE.
Northwest Girlchoir
Northwest Girlchoir transforms the lives of girls and young women through outstanding music education, dynamic choral performances, and an enduring community. We envision a world where everyone is transformed by the beauty of choral music and the power of women's voices. Learn more HERE and apply HERE.
Northwest Hospitality
Northwest Hospitality serves our homeless neighbors and works to build a stronger and more supportive community through simple, thoughtful programs that emphasize autonomy, flexibility, and dignity. Learn about the open treasurer position HERE and read the general board job description HERE.
OneWorldNow!
OneWorld Now's mission is to develop the next generation of global leaders. Through a combination of world language learning, leadership workshops, and study abroad opportunities, OWN works to expand international education opportunities to low-income students and students of color. Learn more HERE.
Plymouth Healing Communities
Plymouth Healing Communities provides companionship, housing, and circles of support for people who live with mental illness and housing instability. We know that healing takes place when people are shown the care, love and respect they deserve. Learn more HERE.
Pongo Poetry Project
Pongo Poetry Project helps marginalized youth heal from trauma through writing personal poetry. Learn more HERE.
Pratt Fine Arts Center
Pratt Fine Arts Center, located in Seattle's Central District, fosters a creative, inclusive art‐making community, providing access to quality education and professionally equipped studios for everyone. We promote the joy and transformative power of art and actively support the development of visual artists. Learn more HERE.
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance
Puget Soundkeeper Alliance is dedicated to preserving and protecting the waters of Puget Sound. To advance this mission, Soundkeeper works to strengthen and defend the Clean Water Act and improve water quality through monitoring and enforcement, advocacy and civic engagement, and stewardship and education programs. Learn more HERE.
Rainier Prep
Rainier Prep's mission is to prepare all students to excel at four-year colleges and to become leaders in their communities. Rainier Prep is a 5th-8th grade open-enrollment public charter school welcoming 350+ students each year. We serve over 90% students of color and over 70% low-income families (qualifying for free/reduced lunch) in the South Seattle/Burien area. Learn more HERE.
Refugee Women's Alliance
Refugee Women's Alliance (ReWA) is a multi-ethnic organization that provides comprehensive and culturally appropriate services to refugee and immigrant families. ReWA's programs address several needs including: housing and homelessness; naturalization and legal assistance; employment/vocational training; ESL; domestic violence; behavioral health; and senior and youth services. Learn more HERE and apply HERE.
ROOTS Young Adult Shelter
ROOTS Young Adult Shelter provides overnight shelter for up to 45 young adults (18-25 years old) every night, case management, dinner, breakfast, laundry and hygiene facilities. Located in the heart of the University District for over 21 years, we believe all people deserve housing, safety, and to be valued for who they are. Learn more HERE.
The Rowing Advisory Council of Green Lake Crew
- Experience needed but not limited to the following areas: accounting, financial planning, event planning and travel arrangements.
- If interested, please contact Darcy Paschino at darcy907@outlook.com
SANCA
SANCA’s mission is to improve the mental, emotional, and physical health of children of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities by engaging them in the joyous creativity of acrobatics and circus arts. Circus is the home of the spectacular . . . Circus gives us opportunities to grow our minds, grow our bodies, and grow our hearts. Learn more HERE.
Seattle Audubon
Seattle Audubon advocates and organizes for cities where people and birds thrive. Our education, science, and conservation programs promote cities that integrate and value nature, minimize threats to birds, and protect habitat. Learn more HERE.
The Seattle Collaborative Orchestra (SCO)
The Seattle Collaborative Orchestra (SCO) is a diverse, multigenerational performing arts organization dedicated to diversity in symphonic classical music. SCO includes approximately 80 professional, gifted community and talented student musicians who work together to create a unique and collaborative musical experience that includes a creative mix of traditional orchestral music, works by female composers and composers of color. Learn more HERE.
Seneca
Seneca's mission is to help children and families through the most difficult times of their lives. We are driven by the fundamental belief that children and families do not themselves fail, but rather are failed by systems unable to meet their complex needs. We offer each child and family a profound promise: you will be supported every step of your journey through Seneca’s range of mental health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and education services. Learn more HERE.
SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve
SHADOW Lake Nature Preserve acquires and restores critical lands to permanently protect and steward dwindling wildlife habitat while engaging and educating all. Our vision is to cultivate a resilient community that values and embraces ownership of our shared environment. Learn more HERE and apply HERE.
Sound Generations
Sound Generations supports people on their aging journey through community connections and accessible services. We provide food security, transportation, health & wellness and assistance services to older adults and adults with disabilities throughout King County. Learn more HERE.
South Park Senior Center
South Park Senior Center (SPSC) works to support seniors, and those living with disabilities, as they explore healthy and active lives. Many of our participants are navigating language and cultural barriers, and most are living at, or below, the poverty line. At SPSC, participants can receive social service supports and resources. SPSC is a vibrant place for community to gather, friends to be made, and culture to be celebrated. Learn more HERE.
Spark Northwest
Spark Northwest partners with communities to build an equitable clean energy future. We offer free coaching and technical advice to people who want to pursue clean energy projects in the Pacific Northwest. We also advocate for policy solutions that shift power and wealth to marginalized communities. Learn more HERE.
Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund
The Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund empowers young women to be leaders and active world citizens through education and service by providing annual college scholarships to graduating senior women from Mercer Island and Rainier Beach high schools who demonstrate commitment to social activism, global service, and educational pursuit that Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham practiced in her life and work. Learn more HERE.
Team Read
Team Read works to close education opportunity gaps through a unique, cross-age, and year-round one-to-one tutoring program pairing young students with paid teen tutors. Our dual-impact model enables young students to become confident readers with the necessary reading skills for academic success, and teen tutors to grow as leaders while developing professional work skills that support their transition into college and future employment. Learn more HERE.
Tennis Outreach Programs (TOPs)
Tennis Outreach Programs (TOPs) was created to give back to the community by reaching disadvantaged, at-risk youth as well as other kids and teens, using tennis and education as a vehicle for success. TOPs serves over 3,000+ youth each year at Eastside Tennis Center in Kirkland, WA. Our mission is to empower youth for lifetime success through tennis, education, fitness and character development regardless of economic circumstance. Learn more HERE.
We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle is a grassroots coalition of people who believe we must act to better protect people, parks, and our shared environment. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and healthy community. Learn more HERE.
Wellspring Family Services
Wellspring Family Services is a nonprofit organization committed to ending family homelessness. Focusing on prevention, we connect families and employees to the resources and support they need to maintain and regain stability—and achieve positive, lasting change in their lives. Learn more HERE.
Wild Whatcom
Wild Whatcom fosters lifelong connections to nature, self and community through outdoor exploration and service. We are passionate about promoting the health and well-being of young people and supporting our community in raising a generation of environmental stewards who care about the earth and one another. Learn more HERE and apply HERE.
Y Camping & Outdoor Leadership
Y Camping & Outdoor Leadership is dedicated to building healthy, confident, connected youth through outstanding outdoor and environmental experiences. Our programs create opportunities for young people to discover their potential in the outdoors. Learn more HERE.
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