We'd love to have you on board with us!

Hello Oxfam SF/Bay Area friends,

Thank you for your continuous moral support and volunteering efforts! As our group is expanding month by month, we'd love to have you on board with us-- in the SF Oxfam Action Corp Leadership Board!

If you'd like to be further integrated into our OXFAMily network in the Bay Area, and believe Oxfam can leverage your skills and strengths to help us get to the next step, send us a quick interest email at: sanfrancisco@oxfamactioncorps.org

We would love to continue this chat with you individually and explore various initiatives and tasks we have at hand together. Please see our open role descriptions below.

Cheers,

Janet & Nadine

1) Local Agriculture Liaison + Hunger Banquet Manager

Leading outreach efforts at local farmer's markets. Building relationships and alliances with local food producers. Maintaining OAC presence at Bay Area farmer's markets. Will also assist lead organizers with the Hunger Banquet (with operations/booking/gathering volunteers), one of our biggest events of the year, in November. This is a role with great visibility, as we are hoping to gain more media attention through the Hunger Banquet. 



2) Lead Graphic Designer

Will partner with lead organizers, social media specialist and lead blogger to create original, engaging and creative branding graphics for use in OAC communications efforts. Graphics may include online banners, promotional graphics, infographics, flyers and handouts. 



3) Political Advisor

Partnering with the lead organizers to create strategy and messaging for political outreach to local elected official and government organizations. Securing lobby visits and recruiting political constituents to attend lobby visits with elected officials and/or partisan policy groups. Building relationships with local elected leaders or their staff. Added bonus if the member has a flexible work schedule to conduct lobby visits during the weekdays!



4) Strategic Partnership Liaison

Partnering with the lead organizers to build relationships with and partnership opportunities with local organizations working on issues relevant to Oxfam America's current campaigns. Must research and filter all potential partners prior to any relationship building to avoid controversial alliances. This can be broken out into non-profit partnership and for-profit partnership!


5) PR/Editor In Chief


Will be responsible for brainstorming monthly blog and newsletter content with the lead organizers. Will spearhead some of the writing initiatives and can assist with social media upkeep (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook). Fun, energetic, and a great Oxfam America promoter who is passionate about sharing our campaigns and initiatives online and offline! 


6) Chief of Volunteer Happiness


Do you love setting up social events and fostering a great culture within organizations? Do you have a knack for being a social butterfly in the room, a talent for hospitality in making everyone feel invited and at ease? This role is intended to have someone closely monitor our current and future members' happiness and to manage social events/plan various city outings aside from our monthly recap meetings. 


#Winning- Our big victory with Kellogg

As part of our GROW Campaign, Oxfam America has been urging Kellogg and General Mills to cut down on their greenhouse gas emissions and their significant contributions to Climate Change. 

We are so happy to report that since we've started this campaign back in May, General Mills and Kellogg have both responded positively and made important commitments toward looking into their supply chains and to help stop Climate Change. 

A huge thank you to consumers like you, and for your support in signing and gathering petition signatures for the last couple months! We were able to garner hundreds of supporters' signatures just within SF/Bay Area through various concert outreach activities ranging from Broken Bells, OK GO, to Outside Lands Music Festivals. 
Our second victory with Kellogg, August 12th

In late July, General Mills committed to setting targets to reduce emissions, participate in real climate advocacy, and become a true climate leader. On August 12, Kellogg followed suit and became the second global food giant in one month to commit to bold new steps to fight climate change and reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. 
 


General Mills has pledged to: 

  1. “Know and show” by disclosing their emissions as well as their suppliers of sugar cane and palm oil.
  2. Set emissions reductions targets by 2015 and put in place stronger safeguards against deforestation.
  3. Advocate by taking a leadership role in addressing climate change with businesses and governments.


While Kellogg specifies that, for the first time, the company will set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to agricultural production. It will also join a leading coalition of businesses committed to working with lawmakers to pass meaningful climate and energy legislation. 


The companies' full commitments can be viewed through the links below: 

http://www.generalmills.com/en/Responsibility.aspx


http://www.kelloggcompany.com/content/dam/kelloggcompanyus/corporate_responsibility/pdf/2014/Climate_Policy.pdf

Ok Go!- July Concert Outreach

On July 16th, Oxfam Action Co-Lead Organizers, Janet and Nadine, led the OK GO concert outreach at The Independent venue in San Francisco.
With Ok Go after the dress rehearsal 

It was a great experience speaking to various OK GO fans regarding the band's support for Oxfam America, and to also educate them about Oxfam's GROW campaign. For this particular concert, we focused on speaking to the fans about Oxfam's latest initiative to urge Kellogg to make commitments towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and their contributions to Climate Change.

At the end of the night we were able to gather multiple pages of our supporters' signatures and it was great to see the fun performance!

Promoting their latest album, Hungry Ghosts, on their 2014 tour

A night filled with fun confetti and enthusiastic fans