Farmworker & Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) - Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros - is looking for individuals from Will County interested in serving on its Board of Directors. Please find the Board Rules and Responsibilities below. Please note that for the board meetings you can participate by conference call. We have board members from various counties around northern Illinois, who participate remotely without traveling to Chicago. Additionally, our Executive Director, who travels around Illinois, will be able to meet periodically in your area for check-ins.
The mission of the Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (FLAP) -Proyecto de Ayuda para Trabajadores del Campo y Jardineros- in Will County is to improve working conditions for low-income landscapers, snow plowing workers, packinghouse workers, cannery workers, restaurant workers, farmworkers, nursery workers, greenhouse workers, meat and poultry workers and their households. FLAP is the only non-profit organization in Will county and the Midwest, and one of just a handful in the United States, that makes sure Latino low-income workers are treated with dignity, and guaranteed their legal rights. While FLAP serves all classifications of workers, it focuses on low-income laborers and their families.
If you or someone you know may be interested, please contact FLAP at asossa@flapillinois.org.
Learn more about the board:
Roles and Responsibilities of Board Members
Board Member Roles:
1.Ensure effective executive leadership
- Hire, support, evaluate, and discharge the organization's executive director
- Ensure the continuity of the organization through the development and recruitment of the executive director,
- Provide leadership on organizational transition, in conjunction with the executive director
- Approve compensation and benefit policies
2. Protect and increase financial resources ·
- Review and approve the annual budget
- Review and approve major financial decisions, commitments, and plans including expenditures, loans, leases, investments, and accounting services
- Develop and implement fundraising plans
- Make a personal financial contribution to the organization and help raise funds for the organization
3. Set programmatic and organizational priorities
- Set long and short-range priorities and strategies of the organization
- Evaluate progress toward program and financial goals
- Review and strengthen the structure of the organization on a regular basis, including its bylaws and board and staffing structures
4. Provide strong board participation and leadership •
- Encourage and achieve high participation in regular and special board meetings Conduct the affairs of the board including board development and transition Provide orientation to new board members
- Ensure board documentation including agendas, minutes, and other materials Develop and maintain an appropriate board structure, including officers and committees (as needed)
- Assure compliance with all federal, state, and local regulation and reporting requirements and recognized best practices for nonprofit boards
- Elect officers on an annual basis Represent the organization vis-à-vis the public and community . Serve as the organization's "ambassadors" to the community
- Represent the organization at public functions and vis-à-vis other organizations as appropriate
Specific Board Member Responsibilities:
- Dedicate between five and ten hours of time to board-related activities each month
- Attend board meetings regularly, notifying the board president or executive director of the inability to attend in advance of the meeting
- Take on specific individual responsibilities, including work on an ad hoc committee or a standing committee
- Make a personal monetary contribution and/or secure funds for the organization which total at least $500 per year
- Introduce the organization to potential corporate, foundation, law firm, and individual supporters
- Suggest names of individuals who could be potential board members, contact such individuals and, if needed, participate in meetings with them to introduce them to the organization
- Must comply with all provisions of the bylaws, specifically portions pertaining to board members
