Eastside Culture Crawl Society (Development Committee Member Positions Available)

Organization Name: Eastside Culture Crawl Society
Opportunity Title: Development Committee Member Positions Available
Category: Fundraising & Sponsorship
Commitment: Ongoing Opportunity (> 1 year)
Start Date: December 29, 2020
End Date: February 24, 2099

Email: erin@culturecrawl.ca
Website: http://www.culturecrawl.ca
Details:

• Appropriate for volunteers aged between 18 and 55
• Appropriate for volunteers aged 55 and over

Opportunity Description:

Development Committee Member

The Eastside Culture Crawl Society is seeking to add committee members to its Development Committee this year.

About Us:

The Eastside Cultural Crawl Society [ECCS] is a non-profit charitable society that represents the highest concentration of artists per capita of any city in the country. This vital organization’s initiative is to build capacity and sustainability for artists, it offers nationally recognized juried exhibits, it connects the community with local artists, and it provides arts programming for inner city schools.

The signature feature of the Eastside Culture Crawl is their 4-day visual arts festival held in November. This open artist studio event, along with workshops and demonstrations, increases understanding and appreciation of the many varied visual art practices in our cities Eastside. ART HAPPENS HERE!

2021 is the ECC’s 25th Anniversary and we are embarking on expanded events and programming in celebration of this milestone.

The Eastside Culture Crawl Society [ECCS] is excited to add new Committee Members to their Development team.

 

PURPOSE

The Development Committee creates, directs and monitors four key initiatives for operational revenue generation. The committee has specific goals established annually by the Board of Directors as part of the ECCS Strategic Plan. The Development Committee is comprised of ECCS Board Members who Co-Chair the committee, a Staff member, the Managing Director, who is responsible for delivering the initiatives with the committee’s support, and members from the community that represent ECCS’s catchment area.

The ECCS Development Committee focuses on four key initiatives/campaigns: Fundraising Events, Sponsorship, Donorship, and Communications. We are seeking committee members to contribute to any or all of these initiatives based on their qualifications and interest.

 

TERMS

Committee members are appointed for a one-year renewable term.

 

BENEFITS

• Professional development particularly in networking, business development, and event planning
• Engagement with an exciting and motivated committee to build memorable arts and cultural programming and events
• Contributing to the organization’s vision of transforming the community through visual arts
• Expanding your professional and personal network
• Making a difference in your community and meeting others along the way
• Supporting the arts in our community

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

To assist ECCS to meet its fund development goals, the Development Committee will work with staff to deliver the following initiatives;

 

Fundraising Events:

• Work with other Committee Members and Staff to successfully execute events such as:
  • Art, Bike, Beer Crawl Tour
  • Take Flight Festival Launch Gala
• Identify new and reach out to known event sponsors during the planning process (i.e. as it relates to silent auction donations, event sponsors)
• Promote and support fundraising events/activities by attending, volunteering, securing new event attendees and/or giving monetary in-kind assistance to the level that committee members are able
• Research and develop with Staff new fundraising events & initiatives
• Actively stay current with fund development trends and maximize professional development opportunities with the goal of strengthening the agency’s fundraising capacity

 

Sponsorship:

• Identify, research, foster and make connections where appropriate with potential/prospective sponsors and forward to Staff

 

Donorship:

• Identify, research, foster and make connections where appropriate with potential/prospective donors, donor groups or campaign concepts and forward to Staff
• Assist with planning and stewarding annual campaigns

 

Communications:

• Assist with the drafting, reviewing and/or editing of communication materials, such as sponsor letters, sponsor packages and donor campaign letters

 

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in engaging sponsorship outreach, volunteer leadership, marketing, social media, videography and/or video editing and/or event planning
• Excellent teamwork, communication, and time management skills
• Confident in public speaking and considering sponsorship materials
• Comfortable attending public events to promote the ECCS
• Volunteers must be at least 19 years of age for this position

 

TRAINING & SUPPORT

• Role-specific training with the addition of shared online resources available for review
• Regular meetings with Staff and experienced Committee Leads
• Support documents provided – e. Sponsor Packages, email templates
• Dedicated Staff coordinating overall initiative(s) execution

 

 

COMMITMENT

• 5 hours/month with a higher level of commitment leading up to set events (currently 2 per year)
• Attendance at monthly committee meetings every second Tuesday of the month from 7-8pm
• Ability to response to emails/requests within a reasonable timeframe

We believe that our committees’ composition should reflect the diversity of the community we serve (particularly underrepresented and marginalized people) and that this diversity is central to both the health and vitality of our community and the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people of underrepresented and marginalized identities in East Vancouver, particularly Indigenous people, people of colour, people from working class backgrounds and LGBTQ2S+ people.

Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Erin Frizzell, Managing Director at: erin@culturecrawl.ca or call 778-379-4545