Board of Directors: Multiple Positions

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Position Title: Volunteer Board Member

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

Location: Remote/Olympia, Washington, US

Commitment: 10+ hours/week for research and fundraising, meetings are quarterly

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.

Varying levels of experience is accepted. The former board members were preoccupied and had little time to donate. We are strictly looking for fresh and ambitious people who care about BIPOC community service; experienced with outreach and fundraising; and enthusiastic about collaborating with the community for capacity building.

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

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 structure is solid. 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.

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 ideas, creativity, experience, and expertise to the board table. 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. causes, 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 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/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 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. I highly encourage persons of color or allies to apply.

Apply Here:
https://forms.gle/TEe1B5c7krmZxRap7