Volunteer for BWA — Enhance Your Skills and Resume

Move off The sidelines: We have many ideas and projects that go on over the course of the year and even the smallest amount of assistance helps. Your assistance has perks too, like added oomph for your portfolio, additional links to your profile, plus the good feeling of helping a worthwhile group that is active in the community. Consider taking or becoming part of one of these simple, but necessary tasks that you see below:

Discussion/Email Lists

BWA maintains two main e-mail lists. One e-mail list is for members only and is used for sharing job postings, group business, and so on. The other e-mail discussion list is open to the public.

BWA Members E-Mail List Moderator: Ross Flaven
Public E-Mail List Moderator: Ross Flaven
Steering Committee E-Mail List Moderator: Phil Tobias
Lynn French serves as backup moderator for all lists

Expo/Showcase Committee

Do you have exceptional organizational skills and a zest of putting on a great event? Then please consider lending your talents and taking the lead on this Committee! Please contact any of the Executive or Steering Committee members to become part of this high-profile spot.

Job Posting Coordinator

Locates, organizes, edits, then posts job leads to the private job boards on the BWA website and discussion areas.

Chair: Beth Marcum

Meeting Notetaker

Takes notes at BWA meetings and provides them to Website Committee for posting to the BWA website.

Chair: Vacant

Membership Committee

Maintains the BWA membership database and answers queries about membership, greets and communicates with new and current members. Sends membership emails and touches base with guests of recent BWA events.

Chair: Kathleen Newton

Member Directory

Maintain and update the listings of BWA members for this Online Directory, formatted in .PDF. Disseminate to any employers or companies that request it.

Chair: Linda Woods

Programs Committee

Selects program topics and schedules appropriate presenters over the course of the year for the BWA general meetings.

Chair: Julia Joun with Donna Druchunas

Public Relations

Promotes BWA to the local business community and announces programs to membership on the mailing list and to external traditional and social media sources.

Chair: Corinne “Buff” Buffington

Email Mailings: Corinne “Buff” Buffington
Social Media Outreach: Vacant

Volunteer Coordinator

Maintain a database of volunteering members and list of list of volunteer positions, both empty and filled and makes sure their service earns them their discounted membership at renewal time.

Chair: Vacant

Website Committee

Overall administration of the site, content management, search engine optimization, website searches, database, and e-mail address aliases.

Chair: Stephen Hultquist. Other volunteers needed.

Workshop Committee

As part of our community initiative, this committee coordinates workshops that are more extensive than our regular meetings allow. Events under this committee require coordination and planning with both speakers, attendees, and the venue where they will be held.

Chair: Ken Chartrand

Volunteer Today to Help BWA

To volunteer for any of the posts you see vacant (or currently lead by an interim chair), email the Volunteer Coordinator or the current chair. Do you have a suggestion for a post that is not shown above? Let us know!