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Help the Richmond Art Center gain the resources it needs to continue to thrive and grow as the largest visual arts center in the East Bay. Work with our Development Department to identify, write, and apply for grants supporting our diverse programming.
Required Skills:
Strong communication and organizational skills.
Writing experience.
Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
Experience in a development or fundraising position preferred.
What You’ll Get:
Experience working with largest visual arts center in the East Bay.
Hands-on grant-writing experience in an arts non-profit.
Build a grant-writing portfolio.
Learn fundraising landscape for Bay Area arts organization.
Volunteer for this position: If you are interested in this opportunity, please email a little about yourself, include any relevant experience and why you would be a good fit to admin@nullRichmondArtCenter.org.
Are you fluent in Spanish? The Richmond Art Center is always seeking Spanish speakers to translate Richmond Art Center materials or assist with classes and events. Help us reach out to larger audiences and build a more diverse community.
Required Skills:
Fluency in Spanish (written or spoken)
Attention to detail
What You’ll Get:
Experience working with the largest visual arts center in the East Bay
Hands-on translation experience
Volunteer for this position: If you are interested in this opportunity, please email a little about yourself, include any relevant experience and why you would be a good fit to admin@nullRichmondArtCenter.org.
We are looking for photographers and videographers to help us document our events, classes and exhibitions. Volunteer photographers help us take digital photographs for use in our annual reports, brochures, class catalog and website. Volunteer videographers help us share stories of the amazing people behind the art center and document our fun events.
Required Skills:
Strong composition skills
Friendly, outgoing personality
Ideal if you have your own camera
What You’ll Get:
Experience working with the largest visual arts center in the East Bay.
Work for your portfolio
Volunteer for this position: If you are interested in this opportunity, please email a little about yourself, include any relevant experience and why you would be a good fit to admin@nullRichmondArtCenter.org.
Front desk volunteers are the face of the Richmond Art Center. We are looking for friendly volunteers interested in experience in customer service and communications. This position can function as a basic receptionist position (answering phones, greeting customers, counting guests) and expand to training in our database system, administrative project management and more.
Required Skills:
Strong communication skills.
Upbeat attitude.
Basic phone and computer skills.
Experience with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Google Docs preferred.
What You’ll Get:
Experience working with the largest visual arts center in the East Bay.
Learn hands-on customer service skills with a variety of patrons.
A chance to expand administrative skills as desired.
Volunteer for this position: If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity, please email more about yourself, including any experience you have working with children and a little about why you are interested to admin@nullrichmondartcenter.org.
If you’re committed to nonprofits and passionate about the work of the Art Center, we encourage you to apply to be a member of our Board of Directors.
We are particularly seeking people with experience in nonprofit Board leadership or fundraising and people with ties to the growing spanish-speaking community in Richmond and surrounding communities. We are also recruiting attorneys and an accountant (CPA preferred).
What can you expect?
Board members are required to attend monthly board meetings in the evening, act as ambassadors at select weekend events, work on at least one committee and make a personal financial contribution commensurate with ability to give. Board members typically invest about ten hours of work a month. A Board member’s term is three years, with a two-term limit. Service on the Board of Directors is without remuneration.
Ideal candidates will have most of the following qualifications:
Extensive professional experience with significant executive leadership accomplishments in business, government, philanthropy or the nonprofit sector
Savvy diplomatic skills and a natural affinity for cultivating relationships and persuading, convening, facilitating and building consensus among diverse individuals
Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, responsibility and conscientiousness
A love of art and art-making
An appreciation of the importance of the Art Center to its community
A commitment to and understanding of the Art Center’s local community, preferably based on experience
Experience in nonprofit fundraising and willingness to leverage that for the Art Center
Characteristics that increase the board’s diversity
JD or CPA
Interested?
Please send an email outlining your experience and interest to Board President, Donna Brorby at Donna@nullRichmondArtCenter.org
Help the Richmond Art Center gain the resources it needs to continue to thrive and grow as the largest visual arts center in the East Bay. Work with our Development Department to identify, write, and apply for grants supporting our diverse programming.
