Board of Directors: Multiple Positions

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Position Title: Volunteer Board Member - Vice, Treasurer, Secretary, Advisor

Organization: C.A.R.E. Wellness Center & Services

Location: Remote/Olympia, Washington, US

Commitment: 2 year seat (01 Oct 2024-30 Sep 2026), 2-hour quarterly meetings, financial commitment of $540/year (or monthly dues), 10+ hours/week for research and fundraising, attending and selling tickets to fundraiser events

Organization:
C.A.R.E. Wellness Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity with a mission of providing a safe farm stay, holistic retreat, and wellness programs for BIPOC community and allies for equality. Its programs are focused on persons of color and works with vulnerable populations such as BIPOC with justice-involvement, foster youth, and those suffering mental health challenges. The person in this role must be sensitive to these populations and center their duties on wellness.

Our Mission is to provide a safe farm stay, holistic retreat, and wellness programs for Black, Indigenous, People of Color and allies, to recover from Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome via Spirituality, AgroTourism, and Racial Justice.

Our Vision is Connectivity: to Nature; to God; and to Self. Our goal of acquiring farmland is to establish a safe spiritual retreat for people of color to escape constant trauma and begin repairing their fractured foundation and realize self-actualization. Our programs are a research community project with a goal of empowering others to heal from PTSS.

The Founder, Chair, and CEO is a woman of color, Pansexual, and person with disabilities fully committed to the growth of both C.A.R.E. Wellness Center (nonprofit) and C.A.R.E. Family Services, LLC (for-profit), also doing direct services for children and youth. We highly encourage an ethical, organized, and ambitious student or experienced veteran to help support the foundation of this new and unique nonprofit.

We are re-emerging our efforts to develop a Foundational Board of Directors from January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2026. Applications being accepted now through Sunday, December31, 2024. Board member applications will be reviewed, candidates will be interviewed, and attend onboarding training before dues submission January 1, 2025.

Varying levels of experience and backgrounds are accepted and locations may vary for remote seats. We are strictly looking for creative, innovative and passionate people who care about wellness and self-actualization for ALL people; experienced with outreach and fundraising; and enthusiastic about collaborating with the community for capacity building. Can be remote, but U.S. residents prefered.

Open Seats:
1. Vice Chair
2. Secretary
3. Treasurer
4. Advisors

We're looking for someone with:

1. Time 2. Dedication 3. Experience

1. Time:
Board meetings will be conducted quarterly on a 2hr zoom call, or in person, depending on locations. Committees and advisory boards are welcome once the foundational board transitions to a governing board. We all have personal lives, work, family, and hobbies to contend with for our time. We need someone with great time management who can spend time weekly searching for funding opportunities, a few hours each month staying connected with the board (email, text, zoom), and attend REQUIRED quarterly meetings because without the votes, we can't support our community and make change. Your time is also needed to be familiar with the Bylaws, Policies, Procedures, and state regulations surrounding our positions and the needs of our programs.

2. Dedication:
Board members must be dedicated not only to diversity, equality, and inclusion, but to their own divine purpose enough to advocate for themselves, their beliefs, and bring their unique ideas, creativity, experience, and expertise to the board table, able to communicate in a healthy, emotionally intelligent way. While we welcome colorful people from all backgrounds, it is required that decisions be based solely on the mission of this nonprofit and not in any one's best interest or agenda. Please visit www.carewellnesscenter.org for more details. Board members are asked to commit to advancing the C.A.R.E. cause, including networking, community events, fundraising, and voting on board policy changes. Though it's a new board with limited resources and capabilities, the board's commitment to progress will launch this nonprofit into better resources, improve capabilities, and launch it's programs further if the board works collectively and actively participates, conducts research, and engages with its community.

3. Experience:
We are in search of at least four Board Members interested in sitting in one of the available seats: Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, and Advisor/Board Member. We are looking for professionals with expertise in one of the following fields, at varying experience levels:
- management/nonprofit
- financial accounting/bookkeeping, focus in nonprofits
- agriculture/farming/permaculture
- legal aide/attorney/business law
- medical/healthcare/wellness
If you have experience in nonprofit or NGO work, fundraising and grant writing, I highly recommend you apply. If you have never been on a board, that's OK if you're a self-starter and eager to research and learn. This could be a great opportunity to get some experience that, not only looks great on a resume, but also helps with this great social cause, building our nonprofit from the ground-up. However, your priority must be fundraising and development so that we can SERVE our program participants. I highly encourage persons of color or allies sensitive to BIPOC under-served communities to apply.

Apply HERE! https://forms.office.com/r/xZCqsTh7Sm