ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Location: Remote 

PTE: 1.5 hrs per month, two year commitment

Compensation: volunteer

THE ROLE

The Advisory Board is charged with a duty of care to ensure that the organization is making wise, sustainable and ethical long-term decisions.  The Board supports the Worker Directors in responsible organizational governance, examining organizational aims and progress, supporting fundraising activities and consulting on matters of organizational well-being.  The board meets monthly for an hour and a half, with occasional larger time commitments as the moment demands.  

WHO YOU ARE

We are looking for experienced organizers, thinkers and non-profit professionals who bring the some of the following skill sets to the table:

  • Corporate campaigning

  • Organizing and base building

  • UI/UX tech savvy

  • Social media and comms

  • Organizational rebuild/turnaround experience, especially as a former Executive Director and/or consultant

  • Human resources and culture building

  • Food justice, particularly around value chain/supply chain interventions.

HISTORY

Real Food Challenge (RFC) was founded in 2007 by a committed group of student activists, national food movement leaders, and higher education sustainability experts. With allies in farmworker justice, international fair trade, and student farms and gardens, RFC aimed to amplify student voices, hold Big Food accountable, and shift procurement on college campuses to Local, Sustainable, Ethical, and Humane sources.  Hundreds of student groups formed at universities across the country to engage in the organization’s primary campaign which challenged campus dining operations to commit to purchasing 20% Real Food by the year 2020.  With students at the helm, RFC has won shifts of over $80 million in campus cafeteria dollars to local, ecologically sound and humane farms and food businesses and has gotten 80 campuses in total to sign commitments for Real Food.


As of 2024, we are re-launching procurement campaigns in California, the Midwest, and Northeast to challenge colleges and universities to contract long-term with regional producers. Today, RFC operates as Worker Self-Directed Non-Profit under the fiscal sponsorship of the Alliance for Global Justice.

CURRENT MEMBERS

Heather “H” Nieto-Friga

Founder, SupplyChange

RFC Board Chair


Sriram Madhusoodanan

International Systems Specialist, Taproot Earth

RFC Treasurer


Tim Galarneau

Co-Director, Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems, UC Santa Cruz

RFC Secretary

TO APPLY

We strongly encourage candidates of diverse affiliations, identities, and experiences to apply.  Please reach out to contact@rfchallenge.org with questions or to express interest.  Our process involves an introductory call with a board member, followed by 1-2 calls with RFC Worker Directors.  We are instituting this search beginning summer 2024 with the aim of onboarding new Board members through the fall.