By Lauren Goldberg, Executive Director
Columbia Riverkeeper’s board of directors oversees the organization’s goals and policies, finances, and public relations. This is a voluntary board where each member brings unique talents and interests. If you have a passion for clean water, climate action, and environmental justice—and time to devote to a nonprofit board—consider applying to join our talented board of directors.
Columbia Riverkeeper is a successful nonprofit organization that unites communities to fight for clean water and our climate. Our organization advances high-profile campaigns to recover healthy salmon populations and protect the Columbia River from fossil fuels, toxic pollution, the Hanford Nuclear Site, and other threats facing Columbia communities and salmon habitat. Our work is featured in national media, including CNN, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times.
Across our campaigns, we promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in environmental decisions and our own actions. This includes working in solidarity with Tribal Nations to achieve common goals.
We welcome board members with a variety of skill sets and experience. Never been on a board? No worries. Our team is open to supporting first-time board members who share a passion for Columbia Riverkeeper’s mission and want to learn more about nonprofit governance. In particular, we are looking for people who represent a diversity of lived experiences and reflect the demographics of the areas we work and our staff.
Columbia Riverkeeper’s board members have fiduciary responsibilities and support the organization in numerous ways. Current areas of professional expertise that our board would benefit from include community organizing, accounting, financial planning, the arts (visual, performing etc.), journalism or communications, legal, natural resources, social and/or environmental justice, and development/fundraising.
Columbia Riverkeeper’s board typically holds virtual meetings ten times a year (in the evening) and meets once a year for a weekend-long, in-person board retreat.
To apply to join Columbia Riverkeeper’s board, please complete this short application form by August 9, 2024.