Water For People Committee

The primary goal of the committee is to develop the support structure for implementing projects that may arise from the Section membership or that may be identified by the National WFP organization. To accomplish this goal, the committee would consist of: (1) a chair with the overall responsibility for coordinating the work of the committee, (2) a vice chair with the responsibility of providing assistance to the chair in the committee activities, and (3) a treasurer for handling any funds that are raised by the Committee or project use. To function properly the committee will require several subcommittees with a responsible Chair for each of the subcommittees. The proposed subcommittees will consist of the following: (1 ) Project Development, (2) Fund Raising, (3) Publicity ,and (4) Volunteer Coordination. In addition to these subcommittees, specific project teams may be established as separate subcommittees once the development process is complete.

The Section WFP Committee will be composed of a minimum of seven (7) members to that each of the above offices may be filled; however, additional membership would be essential to accomplish the goals of the committee. A maximum of fifteen (15) members would allow at least one additional member of each subcommittee and provide backup to each subcommittee chair. As project are developed and staffed, the Chair of each project team would automatically become a member of the committee for the duration of the project.

The purpose of the Project Development Subcommittee will be to use Section Members and their contacts with international relief organizations to identify projects, develop the scope of the project, the funds required, the implementation plan and the monitoring/evaluation methods for project success. Once a project has gone through these steps, it can be transferred to a specific project subcommittee to actually implement the project.

The purpose of the Fundraising subcommittee will be to raise the money required to help fund the proposed projects established by the Project Development subcommittee. The methods may include sports events at the Fall and Spring conferences, mail appeals to the membership or other creative ideas.

The Publicity subcommittee will have the important task of informing the Section membership of the existence of this committee, its purpose, its need for funds and volunteers and its need for project ideas and international relief agency contacts. Publicity will be accomplished a/conferences, through notices in Section publications and other communication methods. This subcommittee will also provide speakers to organizations that may be interested in supporting the WFP concept with funding and to Section events for general publicity.

The Volunteer Coordination subcommittee will be a clearing house of information for the Section in terms of those individuals willing to serve and in terms of assistance to project teams in staffing each of the projects. The sub committee will rely heavily on the database already established by National WFP, but it will also compile any additional information specific to Section member/volunteers. This subcommittee will also be the conduit of volunteers for other WFP projects that may be identified by National or Other AWWA Section WFP committees that need assistance.

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