Seattle Neighborhood Greenways board

Seattle Neighborhood Greenways (SNG) is an exciting nonprofit organization that needs caring and passionate people like you. More than ever, advocacy for healthy living and shared use of our public spaces is critical. SNG's strong record of working collaboratively has brought our communities many new opportunities to be active and connected. It is an exciting time for SNG and the diverse and community-based organization will play a vital role in re-energizing our city.

Some of our recent accomplishments include:

• Whose Streets? Our Streets! (WSOS): In response to the murder of George Floyd and other people of color at the hands of police, we started the WSOS workgroup to completely rethink traffic law enforcement.
• Stay Healthy Streets: We envisioned a network of Stay Healthy Streets to give people space to safely travel and recreate during the pandemic. The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) responded by implementing over 26 miles of Stay Healthy Streets in 19 locations around the city.
• Vision Zero is the goal of having zero people die or be seriously injured in traffic on our streets by 2030. Thanks to our advocacy efforts, the city reduced the speed limit on 200 miles of Seattles streets and installed 250 traffic crosswalk lights that give people who are walking a head start.

Reasons to Get Involved with the Board

Board Overview

The Board is composed of 10-15 people, elected by the Board and ratified by the organizations membership. Board members serve 2-year terms aligned with the calendar year. There are no term limits and board members receive no compensation. Nonprofit Directors & Officers Liability insurance are provided to all Board members.

Officers are elected by the Board at its first meeting following the annual meeting, or as necessary if an officer does not serve their full term. The Board has a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer as defined in the bylaws.

About Seattle Neighborhood Greenways

• Mission: SNG organizes and mobilizes people to make every neighborhood a great place to walk, bike and live.
• Vision: Every neighborhood is a great place to walk, bike and live. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways envisions a future where Seattles streets unite neighborhoods and connect people to where they need to go. Walking and biking are convenient, safe, comfortable, and even joyful. Children are able to walk and bike to school and to parks. Seniors are able to stay active and connected by walking and biking. Seattles streets one fourth of our total land as a city incorporate neighborhood priorities for play, relaxation, recreation, greenery, and community-building. The streets and transportation systems are truly accessible and welcoming, and reflect the needs of people of every age, language, ethnicity, gender, race, ability, and level of wealth. Achieving this vision will give us more choices for how to get around, keep us safer, save us money, and reduce climate pollution.
• Founded: 2011
• Place in the nonprofit ecosystem: SNG is the leading walking, biking, and streets for people nonprofit in Seattle. Our scope does not extend outside Seattle, but we work with a variety of other nonprofits that do have a broader geographic scope such as Cascade Bicycle Club, Futurewise, Transportation Choices Coalition, the Sierra Club, and others.
• Culture: SNG has always been a nimble, inclusive and grassroots organization that cares about people. People will describe us as punching above our weight, because even with a relatively small organization we work with our network of hundreds of volunteers to make huge positive changes in our communities.

• Racial Equity: SNGs Racial Equity Action Plan 2021-2024 guides the organizations work. We are committed to:
  • Prioritizing projects identified by communities of color and those serving communitiesthat have long been under-invested in,
  • Our organizing style, which is very collaborative, coalition-based, and rooted in elevating mobility concerns and needs from the most vulnerable users on our roads,
  • Our commitment to ending traffic deaths and serious injuries (Vision Zero), which disproportionately impacts communities of color and unhoused folks,
  • Our vision of traffic enforcement without policing, etc.

• Values: As an organization that is rooted in people power, we have a tapestry of values that people bring, but some common ones are safety, racial equity, quality of life, a stable climate, public health, and making our society/streets function better for people of all ages and abilities.
• Structure: The unique grassroots structure of SNG energizes the vision creating a truly bottom-up organization. The Board and the Coalition Leadership have distinct powers and responsibilities. The Board is responsible for overseeing fundraising and good governance of the organization, and the Coalition Leadership is responsible for setting the programmatic priorities of the Organization and ratifying certain Board actions.
• Track Record: Across the city, we have a proven track record of success. In 2014, we won adoption of the best bicycle infrastructure plan in the country (at the time). In 2015, we were a key player in crafting and passing a transportation levy that primarily invests in climate friendly types of transportation: walking, biking, and transit. In 2016, we led a successful campaign to reduce speed limits on 2,500 miles of our streets. In 2017, we won $83 million for walking, biking, parks, and affordable housing by convening and organizing the Community Package Coalition. In 2018, we put pressure on the mayor through Seattles first people protected bike lane and a letter writing drive, and got the city to commit to building out the Basic Bike Network for downtown Seattle (which we designed). In 2019, we won Funding for the first-ever Seattle School District position dedicated to helping kids walk and bike to school. And in 2020, we became the first city in the nation to commit to making 20 miles of Stay Healthy Streets permanent. For more see https://seattlegreenways.org/get-involved/advocate/

Board Overview

The Board is constituted to do the business of Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. The Board is composed of 10-15 people, elected by the Board and ratified by the organizations membership. Board members serve 2-year terms. There are no term limits and Board members receive no compensation. Nonprofit Directors & Officers Liability insurance is provided to all Board members.

Officers are elected by the Board at its first meeting of the calendar year, or as necessary if an officer does not serve their full term. The Board has a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer as defined in the bylaws.

Board Responsibilities

Operational responsibilities as outlined in the Adopted Bylaws:

In addition, each board member should expect to:

Applications

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