Use Your Gifts for the Good of Dignity!
Nominations are open for four members of the DignityUSA Board of Directors to serve for a period of two years: October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2014.
Nominees for the Board of Directors “…must be current Regular Members of DignityUSA,” i.e., “…any individual who pays any required Dues for Regular Membership and endorses the Statement of Position and Purpose of DignityUSA.” Nominations may be submitted by nominee(s) or a third party using the Microsoft Word Nomination Form for Board of Directors found on DignityUSA’s website at http://www.dignityusa.org/sites/default/files/documents/DUSA_Nom12.docx.
Board members become part of the strong, dynamic, and supportive team that develops DignityUSA’s programs, ensures we have adequate resources to carry out our work, and sets strategic priorities for the future. We are currently seeking leaders with organizational development, marketing, fund-raising, or human resource management talents and experience. In order to ensure proportional representation, we are especially interested in members from the southern and western parts of the US, who are Latino/a, transgender, openly bisexual, or allies of the LGBT Catholic community.
DignityUSA President Lourdes Rodriguez-Nogues said, “Because of the generosity of our donors, DignityUSA’s budget is able to cover some of the costs of Board travel. We’re excited about this, because it should help people who have great talent, but limited financial resources, find being on the Board more feasible. We know this has been an issue in the past, and we’ve worked hard to remove the financial barriers. Personally, I don’t want money to be an obstacle for anyone with the passion and talent to serve DignityUSA.”
Completed forms should be sent to DignityUSA Nominations Committee, P.O. Box 376, Medford, MA 02155, or by Fax to 781-397-0584, or online to nominations@dignityusa.org. Nominations must be submitted no later than April 15, 2012. Nominees are invited to submit digitized photos to be used in conjunction with election information and election ballots sent to the membership. Please submit the photos electronically to the Nominations Committee at nominations@dignityusa.org no later than April 15, 2012.
For information on the responsibilities of the Board of Directors, commitment, skills needed, and becoming a candidate, please see “Serving on the DignityUSA Board” at www.dignityusa.org. Questions or comments concerning nominations should be directed to nominations@dignityusa.org or to Operations Manager Peggy Burns at 800-877-8797.
Election ballots will be sent electronically to those who have provided us with an e-mail address; otherwise, those without e-mail addresses will have ballots mailed via USPS on or about May 20, 2012, to the address on our DignityUSA membership records. (By the way, if you have a relatively new e-mail or mailing address, please be sure you’ve updated us. Just send a quick note with your new contact information to info@dignityusa.org!)
