Join Our Team:
Become a Board Member, Advisory Council, Ambassador or Volunteer

Contact: Judi Woods
Phone: 239 275-5834

Footsteps to the Future, Inc. Announces Important Opportunities

Footsteps to the Future is a Florida Nonprofit with beginnings from 2001 whose mission is to provide mentoring and transitional living for young women who are aging out or who have aged out of foster care. Aging out is the time when foster children are expected to go out on their own at age eighteen to make their way independently in the world.

Many children who have been brought up in the foster care system lack the tools necessary to become productive adults who can lead successful and satisfying lives. Footsteps to the Future guides young women toward realizing their dreams when they thought that would never be possible. Are you someone who has ideas about how to turn dreams into reality?

Footsteps is looking for women and men who would like to help Footsteps realize its goals by bringing skills, heart and time to the organization. Footsteps is looking for people to serve on its Board of Directors, Advisory Council, Volunteers and as Ambassadors.

Board Member Qualifications:
• Strong commitment to the Mission of Footsteps to the Future
• Sense that it is important to give back to the community in which you live
• Skills to enhance the Mission and Goals of the organization
• Willingness to work for growth of the organization to help promote sustainability using the skills you bring to the effort


Board Roles and Responsibilities:
• Attendance at regularly scheduled meetings
• Familiarity with mission, vision, goals of the organization
• Formulation and oversight of policies and procedures
• Familiarity with finances, budget, and financial/resource needs.
• Support for fund-raising events and programs as requested
• Financial management, including adoption and oversight of the annual budget
• Oversight of program planning and evaluation
• Review of organizational and programmatic reports
• Promotion of the organization
• Outreach
• Be alert to community concerns/needs that can be addressed
• Promotion of mission and programs to the community.

Members of the board share these responsibilities while acting in the interest of Footsteps to the Future each member is expected to make recommendations based on her or his experience and vantage point in the community.

Length of term:
Two years, which may be renewed up to a maximum of three consecutive?
terms, pending approval of the board.

Meetings and Time Commitment:
• The board of directors meets the 4th Thursday of each month
• Committees of the board meet as needing according to their respective work agenda. Board members are asked to attend special events or meetings as they are
determined.
• Advisory Council invited to all board meetings
• Volunteers and Ambassadors meet as needed

Advisory Council
• Advises organization and works with board by lending special skills and knowledge but does not vote concerning board decisions

Volunteer
• Provides skills necessary to the growth of the organization and/or works with
Board/Executive Director/young women served

Ambassador
• Advocates in the community using skills to promote the organization without direct input as board member or direct service volunteer. This may appeal to those who have limited time commitment, but believe in the mission of the organization and still wishes to be involved in a significant way



Click here to apply online.