Board Member (Volunteer)

Opportunity

ArtsPond is seeking volunteers to join our Board of Directors and help guide our next chapter. Terms are one or two years (renewable). As a volunteer, you will help shape our future by nurturing a more caring and just ecosystem through arts, culture, and technology.

For more information, please view the full posting at https://artspond.com/job/27100-board-members/

Responsibilities

Board Members help:

• Guide the organization and make sure it is well-run, financially responsible, and true to its mission. They meet six times a year for an annual general meeting, a visioning retreat, and four quarterly governance meetings. Additional meetings occur on an as-needed, flexible basis.
• Develop and review organizational policies, approve budgets and long-term plans, and monitor the organization’s progress. They also play an important role in nurturing community trust by acting as ambassadors, listening to community needs, and supporting strong relationships and partnerships.
• Contribute in other ways according to their personal and professional interests, such as joining a committee or contributing to a special project.

Qualifications

We are looking for creative individuals who are:

• Passionate or curious about the power of arts, culture, and technology to strengthen justice with diverse communities
• Experienced in relevant areas like arts, culture, technology, education, human-centered design, finance, law, marketing, fundraising, accessibility, human resources, governance, social innovation, urban or strategic planning
• Self-identify as Deaf, Disabled, Francophone, Indigenous, Newcomer, New Generation (18 to 35 years), Outside the Core, Racialized, Women/Trans/Non-binary, 2SLGBTQIA+, Low-income gig worker, or other justice-deserving groups
• 18+ years old and reside in Canada

Fit

This opportunity might be a good fit if you:

• Enjoy shaping big systems in real and virtual life, including creative approaches to social innovation and community-engaged arts
• Can help us mind the rules without losing the heart, especially around shared ownership, governance, and licensing of open-source tools and the social, economic, and environmental impacts of edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence
• Are curious about growing cooperative ways of holding resources, including cultural land trusts, platform cooperatives, mutual aid networks, and impact investing
• Believe access is not an add-on, valuing disability justice, multilingual communication, and lived experience as vital to good leadership
• Cultivate the intersectionality of justice thoughtfully, stewarding complexity with sensitivity, courage, and long‑term vision.

Apply

The desired deadline to apply is December 11, 2026. The posting will remain open after this deadline until it is filled.

Please send a cover letter and curriculum vitae (or a short video) outlining your skills and interests related to the opportunity to:

Jessa Agilo, Founder, CEO

ArtsPond / Étang d’Arts

[email protected]

Please reference “27100 Board Members” in the subject line.

About Us

ArtsPond is a changemaker of a different kind. Our mission is to nurture thriving ecosystems of care in all realms of life via the wisdom and creativity of arts and culture. Join our team and help deepen the power and promise of arts and culture-led social change and care in Canada. For more information, visit https://artspond.com/volunteer/

Our Impact

Sharing stories | Shaping wisdoms

Through collaborative storytelling, we shape and share wisdoms rooted in the lived experience of justice-deserving groups from the edge. Examples include Access Art, aHa!, Caring Cultures, Gentrification Survey, I Love My Gig Ontario, Groundstory, and Together There.

Sustaining ecosystems | Seeding platforms

With collective impact, we sustain mutual aid ecosystems and seed open-source tools and technologies that help people, communities, and systems to thrive. Examples include DigitalASO, Hatch Open, Elemental, and Groundtrust.

Settling crises

In moments of uncertainty and urgency, we support creative solutions to complex challenges, from personal emergencies to global crises. Examples include I Lost My Gig Canada and ThisSpace.