CAGJ is membership-led and driven by leaders in our community! Right now is an exciting time to plug into CAGJ’s organizing by stepping into a volunteer leadership role. No experience needed; we believe all members have the ability to become leaders in our organizing. We will support you in developing grassroots organizing and leadership skills as you support the organization’s goals and growth – and the strengthening of the food sovereignty movement!
Roles we are seeking to fill as of January 2020 -- see descriptions below:
• Steering Committee At-large Co-Chairs
• Membership Committee Members
• Fundraising Committee Members
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contact_us@cagj.orgThank you for considering joining CAGJ's leadership team!
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ABOUT CAGJ’S STRUCTURE
CAGJ’s organizational structure consists of Members, a Steering Committee and Advisory Board.
The principles we want reflected in our structure (approved 2007):
• Leadership development: As a grassroots, movement-building organization, we want a structure that facilitates developing leadership.
• Collective leadership and decision-making:
• Leadership and decision-making as horizontal as possible.
• Where possible, we ensure that the greatest number of stakeholders have opportunities to participate as possible.
• People doing the organizing work are in leadership and have access to decision making.
• Accountability: Those most affected by our work have opportunities to be involved in leadership.
• Subsidiarity: Decisions are best made at lowest level possible.
• Pragmatism: we want a structure that facilitates the greatest possible ability to take action and get things accomplished.
• Importance of working from a comprehensive political and social analysis: we want a structure that facilitates working from a collectively developed analysis of the issues and organizing we want to do – to be developed through broad participation within CAGJ, and with members of the broader communities with whom we engage.
Decision-making:
• CAGJ’s commitment to the principle of subsidiarity means that decisions are best made at lowest level possible. Thus the Project Committees are empowered to make decisions within the committees, unless they involve significant financial impact on the organization. This includes determining the programmatic priorities for the projects.
• Organizational direction and priorities are determined at Strategic Planning Meetings, to which all active CAGJ members are invited.
• Annual Budgets are determined by the Steering Committee, with input from the projects. The Steering Committee votes to give final approval of the budget.
• At large Co-Chairs are responsible for financial decisions that need to be made between Steering Committee meetings
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