Steps to getting involved:

Step 1 - First Contact!  Fill out the Civic Leaders Interest Form and email it to brenden@handsonportland.org. 

Step 2 - Explore!  We will meet with you either one-on-one or in a group of other leaders to explore your interests and assess your skills and assets.

Step 3 - Making the Match!  We will work with you to find Boards or Commissions that fit with your areas of interest.  Once we have identified the right organizations, we will facilitate the introduction.

Step 4 - Check In!  The final step of our involvement would be to follow up with you in order to assess your satisfaction with the match and provide any support you might need.

Why join a Board or Commission

Civic leadership provides many benefits to Leaders, in addition to the satisfaction of knowing that you are working to enhance our community.  Leaders gain opportunities to network with peers, build personal and professional connections and gain leadership experience.  In addition, as part of Civic Leaders, Leaders are able to take advantage of resources designed to help you succeed as a Board member.

What's available?

Whatever works for you. We are working now with nonprofit Boards that focus on education, youth, health care, child protective services, livability and transportation. But this project will help you find the opportunity that is right for you, whatever that opportunity might be.

What's involved in being a Board member?

Check out the below link for practical information on being a member of a nonprofit Board:

http://www.uwkc.org/nonprofit/governance/join/

What's at stake?

This article from The Chronicle of Philanthropy provides an overview of the issue of diversity and nonprofit Boards of Directors:

http://philanthropy.com/free/articles/v16/i05/05002501.htm

For more information
Please email Brenden Butler or call him at (503) 413-6413.