What is a JONAH Team, and why is it different from a Task Force? Nonprofits need internal teams to function healthily and effectively. While the task forces push our issues forward, our Internal Teams ensure that the larger organization supporting those task forces can run smoothly and can communicate the work we do efficiently. Operational teams are valuable, broad, and a lot of work. These teams are vital to making sure the task forces can focus on their work in the community.
Voter Engagement
The vote is one of the most powerful freedoms we have, being able to break down injustices, communicate our values and needs, and build up our communities. However, this freedom is still not yet equally available or accessible to people of the utmost importance and they cannot be forgotten due to the increases in barriers to voting. This is why JONAH and the Voter Engagement Team have made it an extreme priority to work towards making this a freedom that everyone should be able to demonstrate. Throughout the course of this year, the Voter Engagement team has been working on countless projects, initiatives, and community engagement to help our community get out their vote and use their voice.
Fundraising and Events Team
Our JONAH Fundraising Team continues its work to raise money in support of JONAH’s activities. Every nonprofit needs a solid base to keep its infrastructure functioning to support the many volunteers that do the outreach work of JONAH. This requires an office, an organizer, a bookkeeper, communications and technology, insurance, and much more. We have ongoing sources of funding – institutional member fees, yearbook sponsorships, occasional grants – but our biggest source of funding is our individual sponsors. We are so grateful for you! Become a sustaining member today by signing up for automatic monthly donations here.
Religious Leaders
As faith leaders of the Chippewa Valley, in collaboration with the JONAH organization, it is our task to be the theological catalyst – feeding the JONAH Board, teams, and task forces, with important issues we witness in our community – and to be a faithful arm of JONAH that brings awareness, conversation and education to those issues.
We seek to raise awareness for issues of oppression and injustice either through the pulpit, our guidance of our congregations, steering the work of JONAH, offering our voice to JONAH’s communications, or holding interfaith vigils in response to community needs.
The Religious Leaders meet at various locations over the lunch hour (12:30-1:30 PM) on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. It is open to any person of any faith who sees themselves as a leader in their faith community. See the JONAH Calendar for the location of the next meeting or contact Christine Warloski at [email protected] or Kari Allen at [email protected].
Communications
JONAH Communications focuses on the dissemination of information across multiple platforms: weekly emails, a monthly newsletter, social media, event sharing, and creating JONAH’s annual yearbook. If written language work like editing and sending emails is a skill you have and want to use while volunteering, contact us!
Leadership Training
Training is core to our work as a grassroots organization. Why does JONAH provide leadership training? Working to create change requires new tools! Also, people’s experiences have often left people feeling they do not have the ability to be a leader. Learn more about our national, statewide, and local training opportunities here or you can check our calendar for upcoming training dates.
Congregational Core Teams
Congregational Core Teams are created when a congregation becomes an institutional member of JONAH. Core teams can be pre-existing committees that work on social justice issues in the local community or the teams can be formed especially for JONAH outreach, issues, and events. Not sure if your congregation is an institutional member? Check our full list of congregations here and ask your Board Member to learn more.