Volunteer Executive Director (DC/MD/VA)

Valentines By Kids is a non-profit with a niche program - we encourage schools, clubs, and Girl Scouts to make Valentine's Day cards which we collect and distribute to hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and to clients of Food & Friends (which delivers meals to the homebound). We mostly operate in the DC/MD/VA area, but the concept is also reproduceable elsewhere.

There are volunteers, but our Founder and "main guy" is moving to go to college and we are looking for someone to take over and run the program.

You could be a person or an organization (like a church, University, or social group) interested in social entrepreneurship.

We have an established website, lots of good press coverage, a good database system, great vendors, and a very solid system. Not to mention 2 foundations that fund the program each year, so that is not an issue.

The program gears up in August to make sure our emailing list for school principals/teachers, etc. is up to date. Then we send out solicitations to schools and other organizations to make cards. We print envelopes and send them to the schools and clubs along with a return Fedex label to return the box to us.

The kids make their cards, insert them in envelopes and send them back to us.

In the meantime, we reach out by email to hospitals and other facilities to get their "orders" for Valentines.

Volunteers come and pack the boxes on Feb 5 to go to the hospitals, Fedex comes the next day and then we relax until August.

The volunteer or organization has to be organized and be willing to learn things about Wordpress (our website), Sendgrid (how we send batch emails), and our database management program. We can train you, but you'd need some good familiarity with websites, data, and sending batch emails. You would be dealing with many school principals and facility executives.

You could always delegate responsibility to other volunteers, but, because our non-profit is seasonable, and people come and go, you would be responsible for the continuity.

Training for the first year is provided.