you know that including the Officers, the Board of Directors and the Committee Chairs that NAAAP has an Advisory Board composed of well known and experienced Asian American professionals in the community?   NAAAP-Seattle Board Descriptions
  1. President
    1. Preside at all meetings of the board
    2. Have general control and management of the business affairs and policies of NAAAP-Seattle
    3. Act as liaison from and spokesman for the board of directors
    4. Participate in long-range planning for NAAAP-Seattle
    5. Maintain relationship with the Executive Advisory Board
    6. Available to other officers for consultation
    7. Attend monthly national conference call
    8. Attend national conference and national board meeting
    9. Attend national board retreat
    10. Possess power to sign all certificates, contracts and other instruments of NAAAP-Seattle
    11. On-going initiatives:

                                                              i.      Partnership with BAAPA, FCCPNW, HKAW, ABSA at UW

                                                            ii.      Improvement of merchant discount program

                                                          iii.      Career Fair planning for May 2009

                                                          iv.      Development of on-going partnership and sponsorship

                                                            v.      Relationship building with Executive Advisory Board, and new recruitment

                                                          vi.      Connection and partnership with non-profits within API communities such as ACRS, ICHS, CISC, Inter*Im, OCA, KAC, JACL, GSCCC, TAPS, NetIP, EDI, HKAW, ABAW, ACLF, WAVACC and Bean, to name a few.

  1. Vice President
    1. Perform all duties and functions of the president in the absence or disability of the president
    2. Strategy and Operation: Facilitate strategy discussion and increase competitiveness of the organization.
    3. Work closely with NAAAP-Seattle three pillars to create synergy:

1.      Professional Developments

2.      Community Services

3.      Social Networking

    1. Develop and monitor metrics for the organization
  1. Secretary
    1. Take monthly meeting minutes
    2. Update NAAAP-Seattle online library (aka NAAAP Wiki) with up-to-date materials.
    3. Reserve meeting rooms and send meeting notifications to members of the board
    4. Keep records of all NAAAP-Seattle correspondence and meeting minutes
    5. Check NAAAP-Seattle mail P.O. Box
  2. Treasurer
    1. Have the custody of all money and securities of NAAAP-Seattle
    2. Keep regular books of accounts
    3. Provide monthly financial reports at the board meeting.
    4. Issue payments for all necessary debt and reimbursements for NAAAP-Seattle
  3. National Representative
    1. Attend monthly national conference call
    2. Attend national conference and national board meeting
    3. Attend national board retreat
    4. Relate all pertinent information from the national level to the local boards
  4. Professional Development Chair
    1. Work closely with Fundraising Committee Chair to ensure meeting the sponsor’s expectations to plan Professional Development Events.
    2. Survey and gather ideas from members and board to informed with the needs of working professionals in the area
    3. Plan and organize workshops or seminars or events to educate, and/or to explore areas that will promote career attainment and advancement
    4. Invite speakers, find venues, and facilitate such events/workshops/seminars
    5. Draft text for email broadcasts for professional development events
  5. Community Service Chair
    1. The main responsibility of the community service chair is to ensure that the NAAAP-Seattle chapter “engage and participate with the community-at-large and inspire leaders to make a meaningful difference in government, education, business, and society”. 
    2. Maintain the vision of the NAAAP-Seattle community service events, which are designed to promote community interaction with our members and to actively participate as a group.  The goal is to participate in a broad range of community service events as a group but with a spotlight on events that assist and promote the Asian communities.
    3. Provides a variety of volunteer opportunities and other events to help engage NAAAP-Seattle members in community outreach efforts.  This includes developing a yearly schedule for the community service events.
    4. Develop and maintain contacts with the various communities in the metropolitan Seattle/Bellevue area with a focus on the local Asian communities.
    5. Meet the responsibilities of the general Board including attending monthly Board meetings, submitting monthly progress reports, attending the annual retreat, and submitting a yearly budget.
    6. Major On-going community involvement include:

-  Habitat for Humanity: NAAAP-Seattle usually participates in one or two Habitat for Humanity job sites annually.

-  SCIDpda; NAAAP-Seattle participates in the SCIDpda Chinatown-International District/ Little Saigon Spring Clean-up annually.

- City of Seattle: NAAAP-Seattle participates in the City of Seattle Adopt-a-Street program, which includes four clean-ups annually.

- Asian Counseling and Referral Service (ACRS): NAAAP-Seattle participates in three ACRS related events: the ACRS Walk for Rice event, the ACRS annual gala, and NAAAP-Seattle host a Toy Drive to benefit ACRS.

    1. Inter*Im: NAAAP-Seattle plans a volunteer landscaping/clean-up event for the Denny Woo Garden, which is own by Inter*Im. 
    2.  
  1. Social Committee Chair
    1. Provide opportunities for networking and recruitment of new members
    2. Organize monthly social activities

                           i. Delegate aspects of activities to subcommittees

                           ii. Present board with a detailed plan for major social activity at least one month prior to event

                    iii. At least 2 social activities per year should be in conjunction with one other Asian professional organization

    1. Overall responsibility of all activities shall be evenly divided up among the Social Chairpersons and committee members
    2. Collaborate with board officers to ensure compliance with budgetary and marketing requirements in all activities
    3. Draft text for email broadcasts for social events
    4. Post events to NAAAP-Seattle website and Facebook group page, understand other marketing needs for events
    5. Maintain the events attendance database
    6. Deliver member value via tiered pricing events
  1. Public Relations/Marketing Chair
    1. Increase NAAAP-Seattle awareness within the community spanning corporate and non-profits organizations
    2. Create strategies for enticing new members
    3. Have a good understanding of NAAAP-Seattle initiatives from its three pillars.
    4. Work with all board members with outbound communications with members and the general public
    5. Create flyers
    6. Attend most of the events
    7. Make key decisions on marketing budgets
    8. Implement and drive new Marketing/PR tasks that benefit the organization
  2. Webmaster
    1. The NAAAP-Seattle Webmaster is responsible for maintaining and improving the NAAAP-Seattle website: http://www.naaapseattle.org
    2. NAAAP-Seattle's web interface and backend are inherited from NAAAP National, and each chapter webmaster works closely with the NAAAP Technology chair to plan technology improvements for the organization nationwide. 
    3. Every week, the webmaster distributes e-mail to the 1500+ members of the NAAAP-Seattle mailing list to inform the active community about events, news, and chapter announcements. 
    4. Our chapter continues to look for ways to improve NAAAP-Seattle's community outreach through digital communication.
  3. Newsletter Chair
    1. Review and edit articles for suitability and work with newsletter team to release quarterly publications
    2. Coordinate with Newsletter Team, and Marketing/PR, Community Service, Professional Development Chairs and additional Board members as needed to include articles relevant to NAAAP mission, vision and values
    3. Manage budget, set deadlines, and report to Board on progress of newsletters
    4. Support team with printing and release of newsletters
    5. Apply strategic ways to improve NAAAP-Seattle awareness.
  4. Membership Committee Chair
    1. Set up membership recruiting events
    2. Maintain membership database
    3. Email welcome messages to new members
    4. Work with other Committees to help generate new membership
  5. Fundraising Committee Chair
    1. Corporate Relations

                                i. Maintain relationships with the current sponsors.

                                ii. Establish new relationship with companies.

                              1. Corporate

                              2. Medium

                              3. Small

    1. Fundraising Events/Products

                                 i. Example: www.gooodwill.com

                            1. Market the product.

                                  ii. Career Fair

                                  iii.Leadership Gala

  1. Scholarship Chair
    1. Event planning for annual scholarship gala.
    2. Work closely with Fundraising Committee for the scholarship fund.
    3. Select various scholarship winners.
  2. Gala Chair
    1. Plan Annual NAAAP-Seattle Leadership Benefit Scholarship Awards Fundraising Dinner
    2. Work closely with the board, esp. Scholarship, Fundraising, Marketing, and Treasurer.
    3. Start at the beginning of the calendar year.