Board Member
CHOW (Culinary Hospitality Outreach and Wellness) Council/Board member job description
CHOW’s mission and goals:
Mission: to support wellness within the hospitality industry and to improve the lives of our community through shared stories, skills, and resources.
Outreach - Share our resources with the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Resources - Create partnerships with clinicians, fitness venues, and other professional organizations that will allow us to offer holistic wellness.
Education - Provide tools that will help the hospitality industry understand and address mental health.
For more information, please visit CHOW (Culinary Hospitality Outreach and Wellness)’s website at http://www.CHOW------------/.
Position
CHOW Council/Board member is a volunteer position that provides leadership and guidance to the Executive Director. This position is for a working board, a board that gets things done to help the nonprofit grow.
Specific Council/Board responsibilities include:
Working board member, meaning we are a small company and need Council/Board to contribute a few hours per week to committees, events, fundraising, outreach, etc.. (70-100 hours/year)
Advisor for plans and programs
Creating a system of measurement for evaluating impact
Attending and being prepared for meetings
Approving CHOW’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all legal, and fiduciary responsibilities
Evaluating of the Executive Director
Assisting in identifying and recruiting other potential Council/Board members
Acting as an ambassador for CHOW
Ensuring equity in CHOW
Developing Organization Policies and Procedures
Providing Governance and Oversight of the organization to ensure it is fulfilling its mission
Fundraising
CHOW’s Council/Board should make CHOW their philanthropic priority. A Council/Board member is expected to give a meaningful monetary donation. CHOW does need 100% of the Council/Board to make an annual contribution to be eligible for grants. Additionally, Council/Board members will help with fundraising by any means that fits them best.
Council terms/participation
CHOW’s Council/Board will serve for a term of 3 years, with a 2-term maximum. Meetings will be held monthly.
Qualifications
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about CHOW’s mission and who has a track record of community leadership. We are looking for representatives with a background in law, marketing, non-profits, clinical mental health and/or the restaurant industry. Ideally this person will have savvy people skills, integrity, and a desire for improving the lives of CHOW’s beneficiaries.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: A pre-employment criminal background check may be conducted as part of the selection process, unless credentialed by State of CO. Special Conditions of Employment: Effective September 20, 2021, this position will require documented proof of full COVID-19 vaccination. Employees will be required to provide attestation to their status with proof of vaccination upon hire.
As an equal opportunity employer, CHOW is committed to recruitment, retaining, and promoting employees who are reflective of the hospitality industry’s diversity. CHOW selects regardless of their race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or criminal history.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At CHOW we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.* We embrace employees and candidates from these underrepresented groups and encourage them to apply. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results in serving our hospitality community.
*(adapted from Tegus’s job description)
Read at the start of each meeting is CHOW’s preamble:
HELLO FOOD HOSPITALITY COMMUNITY - CHEFS, SERVERS, OWNERS, SUPPLIERS, FARMERS, WRITERS.
CHOW is about us helping us.
If that means quitting something, it’s quitting self-destruction. Quitting all that we do crazier than other people: drink or drug, work or worry, depress or die.
If that means starting something, it’s starting to help each other take back our lives. Starting a new path towards self realization and care over criticism and harm.
This group is a safe place to come and share. To find support, to hear new ideas, to create a community. We don’t need you to be sober or spiritual or even working towards that. We just need you to want to take better care of yourself and the people around you— no matter what that looks like.
We work in a dangerous profession. There aren’t too many like it. (Perhaps firefighting and rock ’n’ rolling come close) It can suck out every ounce of your soul. We generally don’t do neutral — it’s either full throttle forward or full throttle reverse. Our list is less “to do” that just “DO. DO. DO.”
Sure, we cook great meals or make contented tables, but it’s often mere “more, more, more; now, now, now.”
This group can help each of us slow that down, take a pause, reconsider what matters. Come join us.
CHOW (Culinary Hospitality Outreach and Wellness) Council/Board member job description
CHOW’s mission and goals:
Mission: to support wellness within the hospitality industry and to improve the lives of our community through shared stories, skills, and resources.
Outreach - Share our resources with the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Resources - Create partnerships with clinicians, fitness venues, and other professional organizations that will allow us to offer holistic wellness.
Education - Provide tools that will help the hospitality industry understand and address mental health.
For more information, please visit CHOW (Culinary Hospitality Outreach and Wellness)’s website at http://www.CHOW------------/.
Position
CHOW Council/Board member is a volunteer position that provides leadership and guidance to the Executive Director. This position is for a working board, a board that gets things done to help the nonprofit grow.
Specific Council/Board responsibilities include:
Working board member, meaning we are a small company and need Council/Board to contribute a few hours per week to committees, events, fundraising, outreach, etc.. (70-100 hours/year)
Advisor for plans and programs
Creating a system of measurement for evaluating impact
Attending and being prepared for meetings
Approving CHOW’s annual budget, audit reports, and material business decisions; being informed of, and meeting all legal, and fiduciary responsibilities
Evaluating of the Executive Director
Assisting in identifying and recruiting other potential Council/Board members
Acting as an ambassador for CHOW
Ensuring equity in CHOW
Developing Organization Policies and Procedures
Providing Governance and Oversight of the organization to ensure it is fulfilling its mission
Fundraising
CHOW’s Council/Board should make CHOW their philanthropic priority. A Council/Board member is expected to give a meaningful monetary donation. CHOW does need 100% of the Council/Board to make an annual contribution to be eligible for grants. Additionally, Council/Board members will help with fundraising by any means that fits them best.
Council terms/participation
CHOW’s Council/Board will serve for a term of 3 years, with a 2-term maximum. Meetings will be held monthly.
Qualifications
This is an extraordinary opportunity for an individual who is passionate about CHOW’s mission and who has a track record of community leadership. We are looking for representatives with a background in law, marketing, non-profits, clinical mental health and/or the restaurant industry. Ideally this person will have savvy people skills, integrity, and a desire for improving the lives of CHOW’s beneficiaries.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT: A pre-employment criminal background check may be conducted as part of the selection process, unless credentialed by State of CO. Special Conditions of Employment: Effective September 20, 2021, this position will require documented proof of full COVID-19 vaccination. Employees will be required to provide attestation to their status with proof of vaccination upon hire.
As an equal opportunity employer, CHOW is committed to recruitment, retaining, and promoting employees who are reflective of the hospitality industry’s diversity. CHOW selects regardless of their race, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, or criminal history.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At CHOW we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.* We embrace employees and candidates from these underrepresented groups and encourage them to apply. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better results in serving our hospitality community.
*(adapted from Tegus’s job description)
Read at the start of each meeting is CHOW’s preamble:
HELLO FOOD HOSPITALITY COMMUNITY - CHEFS, SERVERS, OWNERS, SUPPLIERS, FARMERS, WRITERS.
CHOW is about us helping us.
If that means quitting something, it’s quitting self-destruction. Quitting all that we do crazier than other people: drink or drug, work or worry, depress or die.
If that means starting something, it’s starting to help each other take back our lives. Starting a new path towards self realization and care over criticism and harm.
This group is a safe place to come and share. To find support, to hear new ideas, to create a community. We don’t need you to be sober or spiritual or even working towards that. We just need you to want to take better care of yourself and the people around you— no matter what that looks like.
We work in a dangerous profession. There aren’t too many like it. (Perhaps firefighting and rock ’n’ rolling come close) It can suck out every ounce of your soul. We generally don’t do neutral — it’s either full throttle forward or full throttle reverse. Our list is less “to do” that just “DO. DO. DO.”
Sure, we cook great meals or make contented tables, but it’s often mere “more, more, more; now, now, now.”
This group can help each of us slow that down, take a pause, reconsider what matters. Come join us.