Volunteer Opportunities

LBC Volunteer Opportunities

Leadership Learning Day Coaches

• LBC seeks alumni to help guide planning teams as they develop the Leadership Learning Days for their classes. Learn more and apply here.

      Commitment: 10-14 hours over 2-4 months

Board of Directors

• LBC seeks individuals who wish to give their time, talent and treasure to join the board. Candidates demonstrate commitment to LBC and its values (usually through service on an LBC committee), the time and ability to actively engage, and resources such as community connections and corporate resources to contribute.

      Commitment: Board terms are 3 years; 4 hours per month on average.

Committees

• Alumni Engagement –  Members serve as a liaison between LBC and their graduating class and/or other classes. This includes planning and marketing alumni events, planning class get-togethers, encouraging alumni to stay engaged and become an LBC member and helping keep LBC’s alumni directory up-to-date with current contact information. Committee members act as two-way communicators, informing the committee about alumni interests and ensuring alumni are keeping up with LBC.
• Board Nominating – Responsible for nominating officers and members to the board of directors of LBC; developing board members through training, self-evaluations and participation in board retreats. This includes encouraging  board members’ overall effectiveness and engagement.
• Finance – Committee members assist with financial policy, planning, reporting, internal controls and accountability, annual audits and investments.
• Strategic Alliances – Develops strategy, conducts outreach and sets up meetings with corporations, nonprofits and government agencies to identify mutually beneficial partnerships that leverage LBC’s valuable assets. Goals include filling classes with optimal mix of sector/industry/background and raising operational and scholarship funds.
• Marketing & PR – Responsible for consistently maintaining LBC’s brand identity, messaging, and determining any press/media targeted to specific market segments. Develops and assists in implementing the marketing and communication plans, including social media.
• Program – Committee members monitor, evaluate and make recommendations to improve LBC’s 10-month signature leadership program, as well as the alumni program. Plan Regionalism Day, the first class day in October.

      Commitment: One year, 4 hours per month on average.

Events

• LBC hosts about six alumni events per year. Volunteers may support a single event or multiple events. Tasks include:
  • planning the agenda and inviting speakers
  • developing flyers or other graphics
  • promoting the event(s) on social media
  • reaching out to sponsors
  • assisting with technology for virtual and hybrid events

      Commitment: Varies from 2 hours of on-site support to 5-10 hours per month of on-going support

Administrative

• LBC sends membership mailings each year, generally twice each fall. We need volunteers to help make copies, stuff envelopes, apply postage and mailing labels.
• Assemble binders for each new class.
• Organize, label and date photographs, both digital and hard copy.
• Research whereabouts of “lost” alumni.

      Commitment: 2 hours per day, when scheduled. Some can be performed when and where you choose.

Marketing

• Volunteers are needed to help promote LBC’s events, activities and achievements by writing copy, posting on social media, contacting local media outlets, and creating or reviewing marketing materials.

      Commitment: 3 hours per month on average

Thought Leadership

• Volunteers are needed to write blogs, white papers and newsletter articles on current leadership trends and/or challenges and opportunities in Baltimore County and the region. These articles are intended to educate our community about leadership, in general, and current events. If an article addresses a challenge or opportunity, it must convey all perspectives so each reader may develop his/her own opinion on solutions. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, LBC must be nonpartisan and cannot endorse any political candidate or ideology. All articles will be attributed to the author(s).

      Commitment: 1 month, 4 hours estimated

Get involved with LBC by filling out the volunteer opportunities form: