Board of Trustees Search

The Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) seeks potential candidates for ELP's Board of Trustees. We aim to achieve a balance on our board with individuals who have non-profit, government, academic, and private sector experience, a familiarity with environmental issues and politics, and a capacity to help the organization thrive strategically and financially.

In 2004, we are especially seeking potential candidates with strong academic, government, or business backgrounds and candidates who can draw on financial connections or resources to help sustain the organization. However, we would like to learn about anyone who would make a strong addition, as we are building a pool from which to draw over many years. Please use the form below to suggest potential candidates for the ELP Board of Trustees.

Overview
The Environmental Leadership Program is a national non-profit organization that works to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting a network of visionary, action-oriented emerging leaders. The programmatic centerpiece of the organization is the ELP Fellowship. Each year this unique two-year program brings together 20-25 professionals, relatively new to the environmental field, for intensive skills training, mentoring, project seed money, and technical support.

Other ELP activities reach out to emerging environmental leaders outside the fellowship. The Environmental Leadership Collaborative brings together environmental training and leadership development organizations to share resources and training strategies and to develop a common agenda for leadership development. The Boston Diversity Learning Partnership brings together Boston-area environmental organizations to collaborate on diversity work. ELP's Philadelphia Regional Network pilot project provides leadership training opportunities to emerging environmental leaders in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. ELP is in the process of launching additional regional leadership programs across the country.

Board Roles and Responsibilities
ELP's Board of Trustees represent the diversity of the ELP constituency, commit to its mission to train and support a network of emerging environmental leaders, and will work hard to advance it. Board member responsibilities typically have included:

  • Determining ELP's mission and purpose
  • Overseeing effective planning, management, and assessment
  • Ensuring legal, ethical, and financial integrity
  • Guiding the expansion of the ELP Fellowship and related program activities
  • Assisting with fundraising
  • Awarding Activity Fund grants to fellow projects
  • Selecting and supervising the Executive Director
  • Selecting ELP Fellows
Additional responsibilities include making financial contributions according to means, recruiting and orienting new board members, and serving as advocates to enhance ELP's public standing.

Board duties include attending two in-person meetings per year-typically the annual meeting and a meeting at one retreat. Additional board and committee work is done by conference call on a roughly monthly basis.


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