Beautiful Day is currently seeking new Board members. The following overview is designed to provide basic information about our organization, our expectations, and our current members. After reading this document, we hope you will want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you, learning about your interests and priorities, and sharing more about our exciting work with refugees.
Beautiful Day is a nonprofit social enterprise that produces award-winning granolas, coffees and hummus as a means of providing job training and enculturation to refugees recently resettled in Rhode Island. We run programs for refugee youth and adults and seek to involve the community through our active volunteer and public education programs. Since we began in 2012, we have trained over 250 refugees from countries all over the world. Our graduates are now attending college, pursuing careers, and contributing to their communities in countless ways. Our 2023 operating
budget is $1.7M.
Connecting refugees and the community through business, job training and public education.
Collaboration:
We are committed to developing positive relationships with our trainees, staff, board, volunteers, donors, customers, and partner organizations. We seek to build community and foster connections.
Hope:
We believe in a future where resettled refugees can thrive and are committed to playing a role in making this a reality.Optimism lies at the heart of our work.
Equity:
We acknowledge the challenges of working within a culture that is built on structural inequalities and strive to create a workplace environmentwhere everyone feels seen and heard.
Integrity:
We are committed to professionalism and honesty and acknowledge our obligation to build a fiscally sustainable organization and business.
Kindness:
We are committed to countering the trauma of displacement and resettlement by promoting simple values such as hospitality, politeness, and respect. We welcome every person who walks through our
doors
Our Board is comprised of a diverse group of individuals with various backgrounds and levels of expertise. There are currently 1110 members who each serve a minimum of one three-year term for a maximum of three terms. We are actively seeking individuals who possess any of the following qualities: knowledge of law, experience in entrepreneurship, finance, marketing, fundraising or access to wealth networks, human resources, or history of working with marginalized populations including, but not limited to, refugees and immigrants. We are especially eager to recruit those who share the lived experiences of our trainees. Previous board experience is a plus, but not required.
The Board meets virtually every other month and in-person twice a year, once in December and once at our annual meeting in June. Attendance is critical for our Board to effectively make decisions and keep communication efficient. Therefore, we ask that our members be present at all 6 meetings throughout the year, unless an unforeseen emergency arises. Also, Each member is expected to participate in one of three subcommittees, which meet virtually on alternating months between the regularly scheduled Board meetings. Beautiful Day is proud that all participants of the Board contribute philanthropically to the fundraising efforts of Beautiful Day. There are no minimum thresholds required and each Board member is asked to contribute what they determine to be personally reasonable.
