The Friends of the San Francisco Estuary is looking for innovative board members who are ready to devote time and energy toward strategy, fundraising, and network-building.
Ideal applicants are excited about helping lead a working board where they can shape and help implement new pathways for achieving the vision of a healthy San Francisco Estuary. People with a range of experience and backgrounds are welcome. We are particularly seeking individuals with lived experience or training in wildlife and habitat protection, restoration, or management; climate change adaptation; environmental justice; environmental education and youth leadership; fundraising; organizational development; strategic planning; accounting and bookkeeping; advocacy; outreach and communications; community organizing; nonprofit law and operations; and/or government and Tribal relations.
Ideal applicants:
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- Share the vision of a thriving, resilient San Francisco Estuary for wildlife and people
- Represent the diverse population of the San Francisco Estuary region, from the Delta to the Bay
- Collaborate effectively and build strong relationships with diverse communities
- Respect and embrace different opinions and perspectives
- Approach challenges with professionalism, patience, and understanding
- Possess knowledge, skills, and abilities essential to running a nonprofit board
- Champion native wildlife, habitat preservation and restoration, and equitable climate change adaptation in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary
Who We are
Friends of the San Francisco Estuary has a thirty-year history of protecting, restoring, and enhancing our Bay and Delta through education, advocacy, outreach, and collaboration.
We focus on developing and amplifying voices for a thriving future of the entire San Francisco Estuary, from the mighty Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers to the Golden Gate and beyond. We seek to educate and inspire anyone who visits or lives in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to support the health and resilience of this complex, interdependent system for wildlife and people.
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