Introduction

Thank you for your interest in the 2025 HDC Board Fellow nomination process!

What is the HDC Board Fellow position?
The Board Fellow is a one-year, non-voting member of the HDC Board of Directors. This position is intended to foster the further development of emerging leaders within King County’s nonprofit affordable housing sector through exposure to and participation in the workings and deliberations of the HDC Board and its committees, advisory groups, and task forces. As with all new board members, the Board Fellow participates in a board orientation process, is assigned a board mentor, and actively participates in all board and relevant committee meetings.

Board Fellow Responsibilities:
  • Attend and participate in regular board meetings and annual retreat.
  • Actively participate in one board committee, management advisory group, or special task force.
  • Participate actively on at least one affinity group.
  • Provide input on HDC operations, programs, and strategic planning.
  • Help formulate, adopt, and advocate for HDC positions on issues impacting affordable housing.
  • Represent the affordable housing sector and HDC to the public at large.
  • Encourage involvement of HDC members in organizational activities.
  • Evaluate and recommend admission of new members to the HDC membership.
  • Maintain the same standards of confidentiality expected of all other board members and agree to the HDC Board Member Code of Ethics.
Instructions for completing this nomination/application form:
  • The following pages will ask for the information required to submit a nomination/application.
  • For open-ended questions, 1-2 short paragraphs or a series of bullet points are equally acceptable.
  • If you use the same device and do not clear your cookies, you may leave partial answers and return to this form later to complete it. You can press the "Prev" button at the bottom of each page to go back and edit your answers. Once you hit "Done" on the last page, you will not be able to go back and change your responses.
Please note, in order to submit a nomination, the candidate must be:
If you would like to download all the application questions for review prior to entering your responses in this form, you can do so by clicking this link.

All forms must be submitted on or before Monday, September 30 2024. Please contact Joane Gonzalez, (joane@housingconsortium.org) if you need assistance.

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