2011 FDR Board Elections - Call for Nominations

This is the time of year we ask our Membership for nominations to the Board of the Friends of the Dominican Republic Board of Directors. We are a happy group because our cause is wonderful: Continuing our service and connection to the Pueblo Dominicano.

• We have a conference call once per month
• We each have a committee assignment
• We raise money to support the work of DR volunteers and communities
• We manage this money - Program Support Fund and the Community Challenge Fund -- carefully
• We help DR RPCVs stay connected
• We plan our reunions every few years
• We cooperate with Fondo Quisqueya and Andy Hernandez Fund
• We generally have a good time and work hard at our cause

To add your work and wisdom to this effort, or to suggest someone else who could, please submit to our nomination process by emailing me at president@fotdr.org by November 1st with

1. Your contact information: (name, email, phone, address)

2. Your interest in serving and special skills that may help move us forward

3. A brief summary of your Peace Corps experience in the DR (years/where/what)

4. Additional information, such as a resume, for developing a candidate profile to be published for the membership voting process.

We are especially in need of:

Enriching our Board with members with Peace Corps DR service from the 70s and on. Some of us are getting to be "geezers" and we want to make sure we have additional juventud to keep DR Friends moving ahead and responsive to our broad membership from over these 50 years. But, even if you consider yourself a "geezer" or "near-geezer", we will be glad for your nomination.

For those of you living in the Dominican Republic, we have a Dominican Friends Committee you could consider. Guy Baehr is our Chair and he is looking to strengthen the group whether former American or Dominican American PCV or staff. Contact Guy at guybaehr@gmail.com .

A Scribe (Secretary) to record our minutes and manage corporate records as well as serve on the Executive Committee of the Board.

A Web Team Leader responsible for updating and building of information for our web site to keep it chock-full of useful info.  We need someone who has a journalist's bent, and, of course, is a good writer and decent word processor, and is wiling to learn the web management program we use for our website. Someone who really knows web design would be of great help to our Web Master, Roger Weiss. If this is you, you could no doubt also help us with CyberNews (Jim Shrefler, editor), and better use of the Social Networks.

A Membership Coordinator (Sleuth) to work with our Membership Database Director to manage and strengthens FDR's membership data base. This position is at the heart of our work of connecting former DR PCVs and staff, signing up new members (recruitment), responding to member questions, strengthening the FDR database, and using the Social Media for recruitment. The Membership team is the face of the FDR. Sleuthing skills are a plus here as Janice Jorgensen and you will do ongoing detective work to catch up with members who do not keep your contact information current, identify new members and keep us whole.

"FDR Mail Room Coordinator" for our electronic and snail mail communications.  Using our data base and other sources, you would help prepare email lists for each Cyber News, all postal mailings, and for our Invitee/RPCV Mentoring programs.   This means working our Cyber News guy, (Jim Shrefler), our Mentoring Invitee Match guy (Larry Deutsch), and our web master (Roger Weiss) depending on the mailing needed. You'll need some easily learned data base skills along with your computer skills. Someone who can work with our current set up and perhaps figure out a more efficient and accurate system for managing these processes would be a plus.

A generalist: Any RPCVDR or former PCDR Staff who can help in a general way to support our work and pitch in where needed.

We have four Board positions to fill and much sub committee work -- Except for Scribe/Secretary, some of the above can be done by someone willing to assume the role but who prefers not to be on the actual Board.

For more information, please contact me, Kathryn Hanowell by email: president@fotdr.org.