JOIN A COMMITTEE
Looking to get involved? Check out the opportunities to join a committee and volunteer with HYP!
HYP ENDOWMENT FUND
The HYP Endowment Fund is an endowed Donor Advised Fund held at the Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area.
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Upcoming Events
Since 2003, HYP members have connected and developed young professionals as an all-volunteer run organization. Through changing committee names, positions, and titles, HYP volunteers contribute to the vibrant future leadership of the Holland/Zeeland community. Projects and commitments can vary from a single event to positions over a month or a season.
Please, read on to learn about HYP’s committees and current positions:
Strategic Partnerships Committee
This committee works in the future ensuring that our organization can meet the needs of our YP community when the time comes.
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Help us make community connections with your diligent follow-through. This position is designed to maintain relationships with HYP and Philanthropic non-profit community partners. Review full description
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The ideal candidate for this role is someone with strong community connections that can help generate new sponsors. Read Full Description.
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This role is perfect for someone with excellent written skills who would enjoy creating content and sending out information to our sponsors. Read Full Description.
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This role exists to gather data around our grant distribution process allowing us to deliver more understanding to our Strategic Partners on how we execute our core values of being generous, community builders with intentionality and equity-focus. Read Full Description.
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This role exists to provide structure grant distribution process, allowing for prompt grant window opening, closing, and communication with our current and prospective Philanthropic Partners. Read Full Description.
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This volunteer will assist the Development Officer with the following:
Develop onboarding sponsor process
Assist in managing the onboarding of sponsors (information gathering)
Sponsorship fulfillment
Special projects on an as-needed basis
Events Committee
Events is one of the most active committees in HYP, responsible for organizing and executing HYP’s signature monthly social events, to quarterly special events, volunteer opportunities and group outings and everything in-between.
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HYP strives to hold one volunteer opportunity a quarter. Help us plan 1 or all 4 events for the year! Full Description
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HYP strives to hold one unwind (networking) opportunity a quarter. Help us plan 1 or all 4 events for the year! Full Description
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Assist with coordinating event location, cashbox, nametags, QR codes, and check-in/greeter at event. Full Description
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A member from the Strategic Partnerships team will assist with finding Sponsors or getting items procured for events. They will curate a list of sponsorship candidates for events. Attendance at the monthly Events Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
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HYP strives to hold one PD opportunity a quarter. Help us plan 1 or all 4 events for the year! Full Description
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A member of the Communications Team will develop a Social Media campaign from an overview & outline provided by the Events Chairs. Attendance at monthly Events Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
Community Committee
Are you new to the Holland/Zeeland area? Or maybe you’re the OG who has lived here all your life? Either way, your perspective is wanted! This committee connects with the community by greeting new faces at networking events and surveying event goers.
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This role will focus on initiatives like the annual membership survey and other primary research based initiatives that establish HYP as an authority on YP trends and activity. Attendance at monthly Community Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
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This role collects data from the check-in responses and Eventbrite tickets to identify and portray key metrics such as attendance, success metrics, and demographic/psychographic information. Attendance at monthly Community Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
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This role will:
primarily focus on grassroots event recruitment.
focus on specific event recruitment targets to help achieve attendance goals.
be focused on growing event attendance through targeted asks.
Attendance at monthly Community Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
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This role will entail:
the gathering of meeting minutes from the Events Committee
relaying important information to the members of the Community Committee
Attendance at monthly Community Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
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This role is responsible for reaching out post events and following up on check-in responses. Attendance at the monthly Community Committee meetings is encouraged. Event attendance is strongly suggested. Full Description
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This role will:
manage the currently in development webpage for open positions within HYP and keep position descriptions up to date.
be meeting with, coordinating, and connecting applicants with the correct chairs of open positions.
Attendance at monthly Community Committee meetings is encouraged. Full Description
Communications Committee
Ever wonder who comes up with those catchy email blasts that lured you into that last UNWIND? Did you read about HYP in the paper or online? This is the committee that produces that message!
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Volunteer to update HYP’s website. Make it look and work awesome. Edit existing pages, add new content. Full Description
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Create, schedule, and post content to HYP Social Media. Full Description
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Design, write, schedule, and send weekly and monthly HYP email blasts. Full Description
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Audit HYP target audience segments, messaging, personas seasonally and/or annually using marketing and communications best practices. Ensure that HYP is leading in diversity, equity, and inclusion practices within communications and marketing. Full Description
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Projects determined in consultation with HYP Communications Committee Chair(s), with scope ranging from refining existing logo/marketing assets, designing templates for a campaign, program, to reestablishing a brand identity, updating the design guidebook. No limit. Full Description
