Committees 

 

Members are encouraged to get involved

through one or more committees. 

 

ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Track news and events related to women’s issues and inform members via social media and/or email.

• Call members to action for selected issues as needed. Inform members of online petitions at the national and state level.

• Oversee activities that build and support interactions within DWC and with other Democratic organizations.

• Assign liaisons to attend key city and county meetings.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

• Organize opportunities for DWC to connect with other organizations and participate in community events.

• Support needs of other organizations through collections or disseminating information at our general meetings.

• Assist in planning annual EXPO and other events.

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FUNDRAISING

• Work with the Scholarship Committee to sell ads for Scholarship booklet.

• Organize 50/50 raffles at general meetings.

• Develop, implement and manage new fundraising ideas, i.e. selling promo items, fundraising events.

• Collaborate with membership committee to combine fundraising and membership drives.

MEMBERSHIP

• Manage membership database and official roster of voting members.

• Notify members about upcoming meetings, event and official organization business.

• Provide membership applications and other materials at all meetings.

• Notify all members that annual dues are payable in January and facilitate collection of dues with the Treasurer.

• Coordinate distribution of permanent name badges for Voting Members.

• Develop ways to engage members in the organization.

SCHOLARSHIP PROJECT

• Determine the topic of the written competition in collaboration with the Executive Board.

• Promote essay contest to high school students. Distribute applications and guidelines to the HCSC high schools.

• Recruit judges and provide guidelines and scoring rubrics to facilitate judging.

• Coordinate collection of applications and communicate with applicants, their schools and judges.

• Select winners based on results of judging and notify winners and their schools.

• Coordinate with winning students to present at DWC meeting.

• Arrange with the participating high schools for awards presentation.

• Create scholarship booklet with winning essays and ads to disseminate via print and electronic.

• Promote winners through social media and press.