Board Members can expect Project Helping to:

• Provide the necessary resources, information, and training for Board Members to carry out duties and enthusiastically and accurately represent Project Helping.
• Allow Board Members to share talents, skills, and areas of expertise for the organization’s good.
• Be respectful of Board Members’ time.
• Provide staff support for special events and activities.
• Provide periodic updates on Project Helping.
• Upon request, provide timely access to any documents, historical, financial, marketing, etc.

Project Helping considers donor stewardship and fundraising to be a team effort involving staff, volunteers, board members, and other advocates. We seek a sense of community and shared responsibility around these efforts. In doing so, we embrace and value each person’s differing strengths and gifts.

Board of Directors

Board Term: Board Members serve two-year terms and can serve multiple terms in succession.

• Attend 80% or more of all board meetings.
  • Meetings occur every other month and last approximately 90 minutes. 
  • Notify the board and CEO if you can not attend.
• Anticipate and prepare to provide 1-5 hours of service per month, on average.
• Participate in at least one working group per year.
  • Meeting frequency varies and is determined by the working group members.
• I will make a personally significant monetary donation for each year I serve on the board.
• As part of the “Give & Get” policy, I will secure additional donations/sponsorships of $2,500/year in value by way of corporate, matching, in-kind, or individual gifts.
• Attend two fundraising events per year
  • Spring and fall fundraising events.
  • Provide outreach to my network to also attend the fundraising events.
• Serve as a passionate advocate for Project Helping, its mission, staff, and programming.

Associate Board of Directors

Associate Board Term: Associate Board Members serve two-year terms and can serve multiple terms in succession. 

• Attend 80% or more of all board meetings.
  • Meetings occur every other month and last approximately 90 minutes.  
  • Notify the board and CEO if you can not attend.
• Anticipate and prepare to provide 1-5 hours of service per month, on average, of service.
• Participate in at least one working group per year.
  • Meet frequency varies and is determined by the working group members.
• I will make a personally significant monetary donation for each year that I am on the board.
• As part of the “Give & Get” policy, I will secure additional donations/sponsorships of $1,000 per year by way of corporate, matching, in-kind, or individual gifts.
• Attend two fundraising events per year.
  • Spring and fall fundraising events. 
  • Provide outreach to my network to also attend the fundraising events.
• Serve as a passionate advocate for Project Helping, its mission, staff, and programming.