Chamber Arts Board Member

Envision Consulting•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

Chamber Arts, a project of Community Partners, is an artist support organization and arts intermediary based in northeast Los Angeles, California. Established in 2023, it serves early- to mid-career artists from marginalized communities through redistributive projects. Its current focus is sustaining the Production Support Grant Program, expanding the Advisory Board, and implementing its first external communications plan. Through its Artistic Support Program, Chamber Arts supports a cohort of emerging- to mid-career artists developing and producing new work with studio or rehearsal space, expert-led workshops, monthly group consulting, staff-led individual coaching, a healing-centered retreat, and a project-based regrant award. Chamber Arts seeks dedicated Advisory Board members to advance its mission by providing strategic guidance and oversight, supporting organizational sustainability, and representing the organization in the community. Because Chamber Arts has a Model A fiscal sponsorship relationship with Community Partners, Community Partners' Board of Directors assumes certain fiduciary duties, relieving the Advisory Board of some duties ordinarily assigned to a nonprofit board. This is a volunteer leadership position involving quarterly meetings, committee or working-group participation, and contributions of expertise, relationships, resources, and perspective.

Requirements

Passion for and commitment to Chamber Arts' mission.
Professional, volunteer, community, or lived experience that can contribute meaningfully to the organization's work.
Willingness to contribute time, expertise, networks, and other resources in support of the organization.
Willingness to represent and serve as a spokesperson for the organization in the community.
Integrity, accountability, and commitment to responsible nonprofit governance.

Nice To Haves

Experience in major donor and institutional relationship management.
Experience in philanthropy or grantmaking, especially intermediaries.
Experience in external communications, especially social media.
Experience in community engagement.
Experience in arts and cultural programming.
Prior nonprofit Board experience is welcomed but not required.

Responsibilities

Provide oversight, guidance, and strategic direction to help ensure the organization fulfills its mission effectively and responsibly.
Help monitor organizational performance and ensure programs and activities align with the organization's mission, values, goals, and commitments.
Support resource development through introductions, relationship-building, advocacy, and other activities appropriate to the organization.
Review and approve annual budgets, quarterly financial reports, and significant financial decisions, while supporting long-term fiscal sustainability.
Serve as an ambassador for the organization and increase awareness of its mission, programs, and impact through personal and professional networks.
Attend four Advisory Board meetings per year.
Participate in at least one Advisory Board committee or working group.
Prepare for meetings by reviewing materials in advance.
Participate in Board and organizational events as appropriate.
Support resource development and community engagement efforts.
Serve an initial one-year term; future terms are two years, with a limit of five consecutive years.