DWCHC Standing Committees
ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS
* Track news and events related to women’s issues and inform members via social media and/or email.
* Call members to action for selected issues as needed. Inform members of online petitions at the national and state level.
* Oversee activities that build and support interactions within DWC and with other Democratic organizations.
* Assign liaisons to attend key city and county meetings.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
* Organize opportunities for DWC to connect with other organizations and participate in community events.
* Assign liaisons to attend key city and county meetings.
* Support needs of other organizations through collections or disseminating information at our general meetings.
* Assist in planning annual EXPO and other events.
FUNDRAISING
* Work with the Scholarship Committee to sell ads for Scholarship booklet.
* Organize 50/50 raffles at general meetings.
* Develop, implement and manage new fundraising ideas, i.e. selling promo items, fundraising events.
* Collaborate with membership committee to combine fundraising and membership drives.
MEMBERSHIP
* Manage membership database and official roster of voting members.
* Notify members about upcoming meetings, event and official organization business.
* Provide membership applications and other materials at all meetings.
* Notify all members that annual dues are payable in January and facilitate collection of dues with the Treasurer.
* Coordinate distribution of permanent name badges for Voting Members.
* Develop ways to engage members in the organization.
SCHOLARSHIP PROJECT
* Determine the topic of the written competition in collaboration with the Executive Board.
* Promote essay contest to high school students. Distribute applications and guidelines to the HCSC high schools.
* Recruit judges and provide guidelines and scoring rubrics to facilitate judging.
* Coordinate collection of applications and communicate with applicants, their schools and judges.
* Select winners based on results of judging and notify winners and their schools.
* Coordinate with winning students to present at DWC meeting.
* Arrange with the participating high schools for awards presentation.
* Create scholarship booklet with winning essays and ads to disseminate via print and electronic.
* Promote winners through social media and press.