Leaders on Board Fall 2018 Newsletter
This is LT's quarterly newsletter designed to help LT alumni interested in board service identify and connect with nonprofits that are recruiting new board members.

Below is information about 25 nonprofits that are recruiting volunteers to serve on their boards of directors.  Whether you are new to board service or a seasoned pro, we hope you will review the listings below. Feel  free to forward this email to your friends and colleagues who are interested in board service.

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Nonprofit Organizations with Board Openings

Click "Read the Board Job Description" for contact information and additional details about the opportunity. Please contact them directly. 

21 Progress
The mission of 21 Progress is to build a 21st century movement for equity and justice. 21 Progress' programs include:  Bold Summer, a six-week national program for emerging college civic leaders in Seattle; i mmigrant rights and education for youth and adults across the Puget Sound region; and  RISE, a monthly speaker series of elected, community, and cultural leaders focused on stories for social change. Read the Board Job Description. 

The Associated Recreation Council (ARC)
The Associated Recreation Council is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit partner of Seattle Parks and Recreation. Our mission is to inspire engagement and participation in equitable, dynamic, culturally relevant, and responsive recreation and lifelong learning programs. Read the Board Job Description.

ARCADE
ARCADE's mission is to reinforce the principle that thoughtful design at every scale of human endeavor improves our quality of life. ARCADE fulfills its mission through its award-winning magazine, events, educational lectures, panel discussions, salons, and web presence. Read the Board Job Description.

Arms Around You
Arms Around You  is a nonprofit re-entry program that provides resources to formerly incarcerated individuals coming out of correctional facilities, the homeless community, victims of domestic violence and substance abuse. We are looking for a Board Secretary. Read the job description.

Blue Nile Children's Organization
Blue Nile Children's Organization builds a promising future for vulnerable children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by providing educational opportunities, free health care at our community clinic, and basic needs. We are looking for professionals who are committed to improving the lives of children to join our US-based board. Read the Board Job Description.

Camp Fire Central Puget Sound
Camp Fire Central Puget Sound  is looking to recruit board members from a variety of backgrounds including marketing, fundraising, sales, architecture, construction, retail, restaurant/food service, IT and education. Camp Fire is a fully inclusive organization that welcomes youth of all backgrounds and abilities and we are working hard to ensure our board represents the youth and communities that we serve. Read the Board Job Description.

Children's Home Society of Washington
A dynamic leader in child welfare since 1896, Children's Home Society of Washington (CHSW) is the oldest and largest statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the well-being of children and their parents. We are looking for members for our Marketing Advisory Committee. Read the job description.

Encompass
Encompass works to give children a solid start so they can thrive from a healthy foundation. With two sites in North Bend, one in Carnation, and home visitors throughout the Issaquah, Riverview and Snoqualmie Valley School Districts, we are able to provide children and families with therapy, early education, and family enrichment opportunities. Read the Board Job Description.

Futurewise
For 28 years, Futurewise has worked to protect the natural environment by encouraging a sustainable and equitable built environment in Washington State. With the state's Growth Management Act as a lens, we use policy development, advocacy, community engagement, data analysis and legal tools to protect farms, forests and water resources, and encourage livable cities through affordable housing, access to transit, and green infrastructure. Read the Board Job Description.
  
Helping Link
Helping Link /Một Dấu Nối is a grassroots organization with skilled volunteers at its heart devoted to helping refugees and immigrants recapture their dignity, initiative and ability to support themselves. Our goal is to help immigrant and refugee families integrate fully and successfully into Seattle and the greater Washington communities by acquiring the language, technical and cultural skills needed for independent living. Read the Board Job Description.

Kids4Peace
Kids4Peace builds interfaith communities that embody a culture of peace and empower a movement for change. Our youth work across religious lines to stop hate, promote understanding, and take action for justice in their communities. Read the Board Job Description.

Launch
Since 1977, Launch has worked to ensure that every child has equitable access to a brilliant start. Through our preschool, before and after school and summer programs, every year we serve more than 1,000 children ages 3 to 12 - foundational years when our social, emotional and academic support help launch young lives on a trajectory of success. Read the Board Job Description.

Mirror Stage
The mission of Mirror Stage is to use the power of theatre to challenge assumptions, bias and prejudice, while encouraging more thoughtful reflection on today's issues. Theatre That Gets People Talking, Mirror Stage reflects the diversity of the community on stage in thought-provoking, progressive productions that play it smart without always playing it safe. Read the Board Job Description.

Nature Vision
Nature Vision is an environmental education nonprofit organization that brings place-based, experiential nature programming directly to schools and local greenspaces. Nature Vision serves over 65,000 Pre-K through 12th grade students each year in King and Snohomish Counties. Read the Board Job Description.

Neighborcare Health
Neighborcare Health provides quality, affordable health care for our most vulnerable neighbors, serving more than 75,000 patients each year in Seattle and Vashon. Read the Board Job Description.

Reading Partners Seattle
Reading  Partners works to help close the opportunity gap by mobilizing community members to provide proven evidence-based one-on-one tutoring at underserved high-poverty elementary schools throughout Seattle. Our mission is to help children become lifelong readers by empowering communities to provide individualized instruction with measurable results. Read the Board Job Description.

School's Out Washington
School's Out Washington provides services and guidance for organizations to ensure all young people have safe places to learn and grow when not in school. SOWA is dedicated to building community systems to support quality after-school, youth development and summer programs for Washington's children and youth ages 5 through young adulthood. Read the Board Job Description.

Skate Like A Girl
The mission of Skate Like A Girl is to create inclusive communities by promoting confidence, leadership, and social justice through the sport of skateboarding. We work with youth and non-traditional skaters like women, LGBTQ+, and trans* folks towards building a positive, inclusive, and supportive skate community in Seattle and beyond. Read the Board Job Description.

Skyway Solutions
Skyway Solutions will enhance the quality of life of Skyway/West Hill neighborhood by promoting and developing equitable opportunities for businesses, housing, economic and leadership opportunities for community members. Our vision is t o establish Skyway as a vibrant, ethnically diverse, and civically engaged community that upholds racial equity and social justice. Read the Board Job Description.

Sound Discipline
Sound Discipline improves outcomes for youth by transforming educators, care givers and guardians by giving them the resources to build respectful, equitable learning communities. Our vision is to  have empowered, hopeful and thriving communities in which young people are treated with dignity and respect, realizing their potential. Read the Board Job Description.

Sound Generations
We support people on their aging journey through community connections and accessible services. We envision a just society where aging adults and those who care about them can live their best lives. In our healthy community, empowered elders who need help will know where to find information, advice and support. Read the Board Job Description.

Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund
Our organization seeks board members with a passion for advancing young women's opportunities through education, racial equity, and social justice. Our scholarships are awarded locally on behalf of President Obama's mother, Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham.  Read the Board Job Description.

Tiny Trees Preschool
Our mission  is to use outdoor classrooms to make a quality education in reading, math and science affordable for families and to give children a joyful, nature-rich childhood, one full of play, exploration and wonder. Read the Board Job Description.

Women's Business Incubator
The Women's Business Incubator (WBI)'s mission is to simplify entrepreneurship for women. The Inc. Community Coworking + Playschool is the premiere program of WBI and is pioneering a coworking model that streamlines the work-parenthood balance for modern families. Our space combines the benefits of coworking for parents, along with additional career and business support, with our onsite early learning "Playschool" for children ages 1-5 years in a single location. Read the Board Job Description.

Youth in Focus
Youth in Focus is looking for mission-driven Board Members who are eager, and excited, to help us grow our youth development photography organization!  Read the Board Job Description .
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