Advisory Group Application

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The Youth Farm Project 2020

Email *

Please explain your interest in joining the YFP advisory board. *

A couple sentences explaining why you're passionate about our work.

Which of the following skills and experience do you bring to the table? *

Check all that apply. Feel free to expand on these in the next question.

Education

Community organizing

Food justice

Organic agriculture

Local school district politics

Business development

Nonprofit development

Financial accounting or management

Networking with the business community

Fundraising & development

Monitoring & evaluation

Public relations or marketing

Event planning

Lived experience with disenfranchisement in the food system

Connections to marginalized food access communities

Other:

Required

Please describe why you would make a great YFP Advisory Board member. *

Include brief information about your relevant background, experience and/or skills.

The following list outlines the roles we expect from board members. Which of these commitments do you feel you can make? *

Please check all that apply.

Attend scheduled meetings every other month (avg. 2 hours, to be scheduled with the group)

Communicate regularly with the Board and Committee(s)

Join a committee and work independently to accomplish tasks

Contribute to strategic decisions

Respond to questions and requests for feedback by email in a prompt manner

Represent YFP in a positive and proactive way in the community

Contribute or find contributions of funds to the organization

Tap into your networks to advertise events, products, and to raise funds

Read materials sent out before meetings to prepare

Be passionate about the cause and the work that we do

Contribute to polls or emails for scheduling meetings and events

Spend time on the farm and/or in schools with our programming

Other:

Required

If you did not check one or more of the boxes from the list of commitments above, please explain below:

Are you able to commit at least a few hours per month to volunteer your time in support of YFP? *

Yes

Maybe

Are you able to attend meetings the last Wednesday of the month, from 6-7:30pm, in Ithaca (every other month)? *

Yes

Maybe

Do your interests, skills, and availability make you a good fir for independent work with any of these sub-committees?

Farm operations

Outreach & Visibility

Fundraising

Other:

Are you committed to helping YFP fundraise during both of our major campaigns - summer and winter - within your networks? *

Yes

Maybe

I could also be interested in joining a Legal Board of Directors, with meeting commitments every month, as we move toward independent 501c3 status. (The Advisory Group remains the "umbrella entity" for all advisory and legal board members, but the latter have greater time commitment and responsibility).

Yes

Maybe

I need to learn more first

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Any other comments or questions?

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Your organizational affiliation(s) *

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