Opportunities From: Montgomery County Volunteer Center

Volunteer: Volunteer Board Member

Calling all heroes, wizards, and strategists! Our nonprofit is assembling its Fellowship of the Board, and we need a new party member. Your quest: help us level up our mission, slay the dragons of injustice, and unlock new achievements for our community. Whether your superpower is graphic design, marketing, or summoning epic ideas, we want you in our guild.

Perks include: epic teamwork, XP in leadership, and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve made the world just a little more awesome. Cloaks optional, enthusiasm required. Please review the responsibilities below, if you feel like you'd be a good fit, reach out!

Flying V is a performing arts organization that creates intersectional, niche-based art to provide spaces of belonging to artists and audiences. We share and interpret modern mythologies that affirm individuals’ unique identities and their relationship to the world. Our work and how we create it is rooted in care for, and accountability to, those same individuals.

Responsibilities of the Board As the highest leadership body of the organization and to satisfy its fiduciary duties, the board is responsible for

determining the mission of the organization and understanding its collective purposeselecting, supporting, and evaluating the performance of organization leadershipstrategic and organizational planningensuring strong fiduciary oversight and financial managementfundraising and resource developmentapproving and monitoring the organization’s programs and servicesenhancing the organization’s public imageassessing its own performance as the governing body of the organizationensuring legal and ethical integrity


Responsibilities of Individual Board Members Each individual board member is expected to:

know the organization’s mission, policies, programs, and needs as well as understand its collective purposefaithfully read and understand the organization’s financial statements and board materials in advance of meetingsserve as active advocates and ambassadors for the organizationfully engage in identifying and securing the financial resources and partnerships necessary for the organization to advance its missionleverage connections, networks, and resources to develop collective action to achieve the organization’s missiongive a meaningful personal financial donationhelp identify personal connections that can benefit the organization’s fundraising and reputational standing, and influence public policyprepare for, attend, and conscientiously participate in quarterly board meetingsparticipate fully in one or more committees or taskforcesengage in learning opportunities to better understand the community we serverespect the experiences of all who bring their voices and lived experiences into the boardroom and the organization

Not approved for MCPS SSL hours.

Organization: Flying V, LTD

Calling all heroes, wizards, and strategists! Our nonprofit is assembling its Fellowship of the Board, and we need a new party member. Your quest: help us level up our mission, slay the dragons of injustice, and unlock new achievements for our community. Whether your superpower is graphic design, marketing, or summoning epic ideas, we want you in our guild.

Perks include: epic teamwork, XP in leadership, and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve made the world just a little more awesome. Cloaks optional, enthusiasm required. Please review the responsibilities below, if you feel like you'd be a good fit, reach out!

Flying V is a performing arts organization that creates intersectional, niche-based art to provide spaces of belonging to artists and audiences. We share and interpret modern mythologies that affirm individuals’ unique identities and their relationship to the world. Our work and how we create it is rooted in care for, and accountability to, those same individuals.

Responsibilities of the Board As the highest leadership body of the organization and to satisfy its fiduciary duties, the board is responsible for

determining the mission of the organization and understanding its collective purposeselecting, supporting, and evaluating the performance of organization leadershipstrategic and organizational planningensuring strong fiduciary oversight and financial managementfundraising and resource developmentapproving and monitoring the organization’s programs and servicesenhancing the organization’s public imageassessing its own performance as the governing body of the organizationensuring legal and ethical integrity


Responsibilities of Individual Board Members Each individual board member is expected to:

know the organization’s mission, policies, programs, and needs as well as understand its collective purposefaithfully read and understand the organization’s financial statements and board materials in advance of meetingsserve as active advocates and ambassadors for the organizationfully engage in identifying and securing the financial resources and partnerships necessary for the organization to advance its missionleverage connections, networks, and resources to develop collective action to achieve the organization’s missiongive a meaningful personal financial donationhelp identify personal connections that can benefit the organization’s fundraising and reputational standing, and influence public policyprepare for, attend, and conscientiously participate in quarterly board meetingsparticipate fully in one or more committees or taskforcesengage in learning opportunities to better understand the community we serverespect the experiences of all who bring their voices and lived experiences into the boardroom and the organization

Not approved for MCPS SSL hours.

Organization: Flying V, LTD

Opportunity Type: Volunteer

Date: Is Ongoing

Zip Code: 20910

Allow Groups: No