Red Willow Learning Center

Nourishing the Human Capacity for Resilience, Optimism, and Hope.

Board of Director Positions — Roles, Responsibilities & Qualifications

ABOUT BOARD SERVICE AT RED WILLOW LEARNING CENTER

Serving on the Red Willow Learning Center Board of Directors is an opportunity to provide meaningful leadership to an organization that has spent fifteen years delivering holistic, trauma-informed care to some of our community’s most vulnerable members. Board members are ambassadors, advocates, and stewards of this mission.

We seek individuals who bring professional expertise, community connection, and a genuine commitment to the populations we serve.

Board service at RWLC is active, engaged, and purposeful.

The Red Willow Learning Center is a registered 501(c)(3).  This is an unpaid volunteer position.

All board members are expected to:

  • Attend and actively participate in board meetings scheduled once per month
  • Serve on at least one board committee
  • Commit 3-8 hours per month to their board service
  • Support the organization’s fundraising efforts through personal giving and donor cultivation
  • Serve as a community ambassador for the RWLC mission
  • Maintain confidentiality and exercise sound, independent judgment
  • Disclose and manage conflicts of interest in accordance with board policy
  • Complete board orientation and participate in ongoing governance education and assessment

AT-LARGE BOARD MEMBERS

Role Summary

At-large board members provide the organizational leadership, professional expertise, and community relationships essential to advancing the RWLC mission. They are active contributors to board governance and serve as champions for the populations we serve.

Core Responsibilities

Contributes professional expertise, strategic thinking, and community perspective to board deliberations

Serves on a board committee aligned with professional background and organizational need

Actively participates in fundraising, donor cultivation, and organizational advocacy

Represents RWLC with integrity in the broader community

Participates in all required board activities and fulfills commitments made at time of recruitment

Areas of Expertise We Actively Seek

We recruit at-large members to ensure the board reflects a diverse range of professional backgrounds and lived experience. Current areas of interest include:

Top Needs:

  • Marketing, communications, or public relations
  • Financial expertise
  • Experience with the recovery community

Always open to people with experience in:

  • Healthcare / mental health / integrative medicine
  • Human resources or organizational development
  • Technology or data management
  • Philanthropy or major gift fundraising
  • Legal / nonprofit law
  • Lived experience with trauma, veteran service, recovery, justice-involved, and chronic pain populations.

OFFICER ROLES

The board is always open to people with interest in officer roles, including:

  • President
  • Vice-President
  • Treasurer (Currently identified as a top need)
  • Secretary

If interested, contact Kathy for officer role information.  Contact information below.

A NOTE ON BOARD CULTURE

The Red Willow Learning Center board is committed to building a governance culture that reflects the values of the organization itself — one grounded in integrity, compassion, equity, and genuine service. We welcome board members who are as committed to how we lead as to what we accomplish.

For more information about board service at Red Willow Learning Center, please contact:
Kathy Mangan | kathy@redwillowlearning.org | 406-530-7175