City Grazing is seeking members for our Board of Directors

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If you are a strong fundraiser and passionate about changing our culture's attitudes towards the Earth and atmosphere we depend on, we need you.

Board Member General Responsibilities

• 3 year term
• Active role in fundraising: planning/resource identification/revenue streams
• Recruitment of future Board members
• Annual financial contribution "of personal significance,"
• Participation on at least one Committee
• General adherence to Board protocol and bylaws (agenda, meeting minutes, etc)

Our Vision:

To create a community inspired by goats.

Our Mission:

Sustainable land management and fire risk reduction through outreach, education, and implementation of goat grazing.

What are the issues we are trying to help alleviate?

• Climate change
• Disconnection from nature
• Growing ignorance of our place in the greater ecosystem
• What are City Grazing’s larger goals?
• Sustainable land management: Creating safe enclosures to focus goats on grazing areas to remove fire hazards and invasive weeds and brush.
• Enhancement of habitat
• Building healthy soil
• Bringing joy to people
• Giving back to our often-ignored communities
• Stimulating awareness of humanity’s connection to nature
• Helping people recognize animals’ needs and intelligence, and their similarity to us

What are our strategies?

• Bringing goats to grazing sites, large and small, public and private
• Educating through demonstration
• Hiring from our least-resourced communities, finding those with natural talent and helping them develop needed skills
• Continuing to grow our volunteer program
• Social media saturation
• Adopting goats and telling their stories
• Developing a long term vision plan

What are our current capabilities?

• 100 goats!
• Incredible individuals creating an amazing team
• Networking with workforce training programs to to source local talent
• Vital social media presence
• Strong volunteer program
• 10 years of sustainable land management experience

What are our progress indicators?

• Continued growth of operations, donors, subscribers, volunteers
• Healthy goats
• Job satisfaction of employees
• Vegetation shift from invasives to natives at annually recurring sites
• Soil development at recurring sites
• Increased organizational efficiency