Orientation for Board Members

People agree to join the board of directors of Friends for reasons such as their love of the outdoors, their appreciation of the importance of the Refuges to the way of life in our area, the importance of Refuges in preserving and conserving wild life and wild places for current and future generations, and because it is a cool group of folks who enjoy working together.

New board member Pete Tirrell

New board member Ron Kamzelski

Even though Friends is a small nonprofit organization compared to big guys such as The American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, or the YMCA, our board members have a lot of rather heady responsibilities,

Since Friends elected several new board members at the Annual Meeting, and to assure all the board remember the roles and goals, a Board Orientation happened in April.

New member since the last board orientation, Jeri Treat

New board member Scott Wright

The discussion included these topics. If you want to hear more about any of them, leave us a comment.

Founding and history:

• Friends
• Cedar Keys NWR
• Lower Suewannee NWR
• Vista

Essential duties of board members

• Governance
• Financial
• Outreach
• Refuge support
• Communications

Tools we use

• Website, on the Weebly platform
• DonorSnap, to maintain membership records
• Dropbox, for documents and records
• Bookkeeping assistance
• Google Suite
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Zoom
  
• How Refuges are different from National Parks
  
• Where the Refuges fit into the US government structure