Join Our Member Education Committee and Plan for a Year of Learning Together

Work together to build the content for our signature learning events based on our annual learning question. Help organize and implement the programs and engage members in sharing their expertise for the benefit of our collective. Sound like something you’d like to help with? Contact Jayni Kosoff, our Member Education Co-chair, for more details.

Join the Communications Committee to Help Keep Us Connected

The Communications Committee is looking for Girlfriends to help keep members and the community at large up to date on events and news about our philanthropic efforts and grantee partners. Is graphic design your speciality? Help us look good while we get the word out! Have connections with local news outlets? We’d love to chat PR! Do you have social media skills? We got just the gig for you! If any of this sparks your interest, contact Sammy for more details.

Join Our Membership Committee and Help Gear Up for 2022!

The Membership Committee oversees recruitment and retention. Although we all do our part to recruit new members, Membership is responsible for organizing World Cafes and guiding all of the committees in recruitment and retention. One exciting thing Membership will be working on this year is developing new and creative approaches to attract a diverse new group of members. Another really important thing Membership will be doing this year is finding ways to help retain existing members. Sound like something you’d like to help with? Contact Kaye O’Kearney, our Membership Committee Co-Chair, to express interest. More detailed information for the opening as a co-chair of this committee can be found here.

Join the Impact Team as Liaison Coordinator

Member Liaisons play a very important role in the trust-based philanthropy tenet of support beyond the check. They help us build relationships with our grantee partners and are a conduit of information between the partner organization and ninety-nine girlfriends. The Liaison Coordinator helps coordinate the Member Liaisons and keeps them connected to one another and to the organization as a whole. If you think you would be a good fit for this position, please review the description below and contact Van with questions or to express your interest.

Learn More About the Governing Board

We invite you to learn more about the inner workings of ninety-nine girlfriends as we recruit for three board positions that will be open in January 2022. We seek individuals who bring to our governing structure commitment to and understanding of our mission, diversity, and commitment to integrating racial equity in our collective action.

TBP + Grantee Partner Convening Inspires!

Sunday's event was a success! A panel of Grants Steering Committee members shared how we are evolving to include more and more tenets of trust-based philanthropy (tbp) and grantee partners discussed their experiences with this more equitable form of funding in three facilitated breakout rooms.

RSVP for the Awards Celebration on December 5!

Soon we will be organizing an awesome task force to plan this celebratory event and will have more exciting details in the coming weeks. In the meantime, please get it on your calendar and RSVP so you get all the helpful information as it becomes available.

Learn: Resource from Philanos

Want to learn more about collective giving and get access to additional learning resources? Check out https://philanos.org. Membership is complimentary and provides access to great resources. Ninety-nine girlfriends is a member of Philanos and this helps us learn from tested models and share what we’ve learned with other women’s collective giving circles across the nation. It’s the collective for collectives!

Embedding Racial Equity in All That We Do: The Racial Equity Committee

We are thrilled to share that, as the result of the work of our ad hoc Racial Equity Team and our work with Stephanie Montgomery, we are sunsetting our Inclusion Team and building our Racial Equity Committee! The committee will help us embed racial equity in all that we do by being integrated with our Coordinating Council and collaborating with all of the other committees to systemically embed practices that encourage equity and inclusion. We are looking for up to five members to help with this impactful work. If you are interested, please read these volunteer expectations and contact Tammy Wilhoite to learn more.