AOF Board of Directors - Call for Nominations
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If you do not live in the Sacramento area, if you are not an AOF member, or if you already serve on the AOF Board of Directors, never mind - just delete this message now.
This December, AOF will elect a new Board of Directors. Most of the old team have run up against term limits, so we need nominees desperately. Please consider serving as an AOF director in 2010.
What does that entail? Directors meet once a month, usually Sunday morning a week after the regular general meeting. A typical Board meeting generally takes a few hours. You hammer out strategy, plan events and meeting topics, share your wisdom. Most of the truly messy work like press releases and publicity, the treasury, website, membership list, publishing the newsletter, etc., falls on officers and the existing committee structure. Under direction of the Board, of course.
Committees & most officers will continue. AOF needs chiefs, not indians.
To serve on the AOF Board, requirements are obvious and simple:
- Be an AOF voting member in good standing
- Let AOF know you will toss your hat in the ring
- Prepare a Candidate Statement for the December newsletter
- Attend the December meeting (election)
- If elected, attend most Board meeting, especially the first, in Jan 2010
A Candidate Statement is about yourself, how you got to be a freethinker, and your vision for AOF -- generally 300 words max. For examples of Candidate Statements, see here and here (previous newsletters). Send to the AOF newsletter at <newsl...@aofonline.org>.
If you are not an AOF voting member, but would like to be, click here to join.
If interested, start the marble rolling with a note to pres...@aofonline.org and vice-pr...@aofonline.org. Thanks, all.
~ Ken Nahigian, AOF Treasurer & Nomination Committee
Ken Nahigian
deadlines. If you are considering running for election to the AOF
Board, please get your candidate statement to the newsletter by this
Wednesday, Nov 18. The absolute drop-dead deadline (for the
newsletter) is Nov 21. If you miss that, you can bring your candidate
statement to the December AOF meeting and read it there, if time
permits. But it is far more fair if your statement is in the
newsletter alongside all others. Act now, act quickly.