How to Volunteer with TPC
Share with us your skills and passions and we’ll find a place for you to help out on a one-time basis or throughout the year!
Ways to Volunteer Your Time
Like TPC? Tell a friend! Our best recruitment tool is our own members. What can you do?
- Co-host a “Meet TPC” recruitment event at your home or another member’s and invite your friends. TPC organizes the event, sends invitations and post-event follow-up, and offers $250 to cover expenses. Requires a room in which 20-25 women can fit. (We don’t mind standing!)
When? Year round (with fewer events between June and August), typically during the week, between 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm.
Interested? Contact Caroline Boeckman at cboeckman@thephilanthropyconnection.org
- Tell your friends about TPC, and bring them to our events.
- “Share” or “Like” posts on TPC’s Facebook page. Follow TPC on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
- Forward “The Link” to philanthropically-inclined friends and colleagues.
Questions? Contact Caroline at cboeckman@thephilanthropyconnection.org
Grant teams review and evaluate grant applications submitted to TPC. Should you join a team, you’ll get to work with some of the most generous women in Boston, discover the needs in our community, and learn how to evaluate grants proposals.
When and what? Teams meet two to three times from January to May to perform in-depth reviews of grant applications, conduct site visits, and ultimately recommend ballot finalists to be voted on by the entire membership. In October, members will be invited to sign up, and training for all who join a team will be held in early December. Given the cyclical nature of a grants cycle, members must join a team by late November.
Interested in a leadership role as the team’s Finance Lead, Deputy Captain, or Captain? (The Captain’s role requires one year of TPC grant experience.) Contact Sue below.
Questions? Contact Grants Committee Chair Sue Meehan (smeehan@thephilanthropyconnection.org).
Our members between the ages of 18 and 35 are some of the most talented, philanthropic women you will meet, and they comprise 20% of our membership. No other collective giving group in the country has so many young members. Some of them are interested in having a TPC mentor who will share career and life experiences (and we guarantee that the learning will be mutual!).
- Offer to share your hard-earned wisdom and expertise, and have the pleasure of knowing one of these rising stars. Get together for coffee, lunch, or a drink… or whatever you two decide.
Interested? Contact the Young Philanthropist Initiative
Chair Cassandra Trujillo (cassandra.trujillo@gmail.com).
One of the things that sets TPC apart from other grant makers is its volunteer program. Through TPC grantee liaisons, we learn of volunteer opportunities that range from helping pack food that will be distributed to those in need to providing pro bono legal services. Our members have consistently raised their hands to help and along the way have forged a deeper connection with our grantees and fellow members. Current opportunities offer many ways for you to get involved.
Communication is key to any organization’s success. We need members who are creative and strategic thinkers, writers, or just plain doers.
- Help with content for “The Link” and give our Marketing and Communications (M&C) Committee a hand with projects during the year.
- Join our social media team and help manage content across LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
- Help us communicate: Are you a strong writer? We can find a role for you!
Interested in any of the above? Contact Cheryl Wakeham (cwakeham@thephilanthropyconnection.org)
Join our Grants Awards and All Member Meeting Team
When: Leading up to our event on Thursday, June 8
Where: Virtually
Needs: We’re assembling a team of TPC members to coordinate this exciting event. We have a range of volunteer opportunities depending on your interests and availability! We’ll need planners to help with food coordination, speaker engagement (grantees), event promotion, and name tags. Maybe you’d rather help during the evening with check-in, greeting/connecting guests, or membership renewals?
Contact Leslie Levenson by March 31st if you’d like to join the team and meet fellow TPC members.
Ways to Support Our Programming
A small percentage of each member’s investment helps defray the educational and programming costs of operating TPC (including events, grant review trainings, administrative and bookkeeping). Contributions from membership investment funds cover roughly one-third of our operating costs. Support Member Education Programs and Administration!
iGive
Through iGive, 1,769 companies, including Apple, Expedia.com, and Bloomingdale’s, will donate a percentage of your online purchases to TPC. How easy is that? It takes only a few minutes to set up, and with donations ranging from 1.2% to 4%, this adds up quickly. Learn how easily you can establish an iGive account.
AmazonSmile
AmazonSmile (smile.amazon.com) is a website operated by Amazon that lets customers enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features as on Amazon.com. The difference is that when customers shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible purchases to TPC. Click the link above, log into your Amazon account, and select The Philanthropy Connection as your charitable organization.
Having trouble? Contact TPC’s administrator (connect@ThePhilanthropyConnection.org)