About Groundswell's Board of Directors!

The Groundswell Board of Directors (Board) is charged with the organization’s fiduciary and generative health in addition to ensuring its strategic direction, managing risk, and evaluating the executive director’s leadership and performance. Groundswell is committed to building and maintaining a board of directors that reflects gender balance and ethnic and racial diversity.

The Board seeks individuals who are active in professional life or in their communities, and who share a common commitment to youth development and advancing social change through the arts. Members are inspired by our mission, self-directed in promoting our cause, and willing to make contacts to enlarge our base of support.

Board members are expected to attract financial and other resources to Groundswell; to build a broad constituency of friends and benefactors; to raise public awareness of the organization and mission, and to provide strategic, financial, fundraising and overall policy guidance to Groundswell’s executive director and