EMPLOYABILITY BOARD PARTICIPATION OPPORTUNITIES

Board Meetings

  • Attend Board meetings; notify Board Chair if unable to attend

  • One-to-one meeting with Leadership

Committees/Special Projects

Fundraising/Events/Capital Campaign, Board Governance, Finance, Grants, Executive

  • Serve on a Committee or special project effort

  • Recommend a potential volunteer for a Committee or special project

Direct Personal Contribution

  • Make a personal annual gift for operations

Individual Prospects

  • Suggest names for donor, Board, and/or event support

  • Arrange a meeting with staff and prospect (coffee, lunch, their office)

  • Provide names of potential prospects

  • Review lists of donors/prospects for connections

  • Cultivate/foster prospects with staff support

  • Promote monthly giving

  • Take a prospect on a tour of the facility

  • Encourage planned giving / consider own planned gift

  • Make thank you calls to donors

  • Write thank you notes to donors

  • Share stories/news with prospects and donors

Corporate Sponsors/Gifts

  • Arrange a meeting with staff and corporate prospects (coffee, lunch, their office)

  • Secure corporate sponsorship(s)

  • Ask friends for ideas for corporate sponsors

  • Write thank you notes to corporate sponsors

  • Ask businesses you know if they do matching gifts

  • Ask about hosting a lunch & learn at business

  • Ask business/restaurant for an ‘add-on’ donation

  • Ask business/restaurant for a portion of proceeds or ‘round-up’

  • Arrange tix promotion (Bananas, Ghost Pirates)

  • Sign up for/promote Kroger, etc. giving

Spread the Word

  • Host a reception (home or other location)

  • Ask a friend to host a reception

  • Host a lunch at your office and introduce organization (speak or invite staff)

  • Ask to speak/have staff speak at group, rotary, club, church, etc.

  • Share news/events on social media

  • Invite staff to a speaking engagement

Events

  • Help Fundraising Committee create new event

  • Buy ticket(s)/attend

  • Sell tickets

  • Secure corporate sponsor(s)

  • Secure donated items (if auction part of)

  • Secure in-kind goods such as food, etc.

  • Promote event

  • Bring prospect(s) to event

Third Party Events

  • Encourage a competitive event

  • Engage a school for an event

  • Promote events

  • Attend events

  • Ask your group(s) (church, rotary, etc.) to host an event or select our organization as a charity beneficiary

  • Ask businesses you frequent to consider an event

Grant Opportunities

  • Assist Staff with grant writing, editing, proofreading

  • Identify new grant opportunities (family foundations, federal, state)

Community Tours

  • Host a tour for participants at your organization

  • Recommend/arrange for other companies to host a tour

Government Relations

  • Connect Staff with key legislative leaders

  • Advocate for organization (meetings, letters, etc.)

  • Invite key legislative leaders for tours of the organization and/or organization’s event