Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Trout Unlimited Women's Initiative. A major priority for the organization is to diversify our membership, our leadership and to generally create a more welcoming and inclusive community which includes our chapters and councils. It is quite clear that a more diverse membership profile will better enable the organization to more effectively represent the angling community and to do the best possible, most complete conservation work. When we don’t have all the stakeholders at the table, our solutions are incomplete.

 

Below, you will find some documents that we hope will help to orient new volunteer leaders and give you a better understanding of what we're trying to do. If you have any questions or if you would like to be put in touch with your local TU chapter, please contact the TU Volunteer Operations staff.

 

 

Leadership Manual (pdf)

This guide is a one-stop-shop for everything a new TU volunteer leader, at any level of the organization, might want to know about the operations of TU and best practices for most volunteer positions.

 

Chapter Women's Initiative Coordinator Job Description (pdf)

This role is at the heart of what the Women's Initiative is all about. Learn more about this chapter-level, volunteer position and how creating a role like this locally might help your chapter engage more women.

 

Council Women's Initiative Coordinator Job Description (pdf) 

Learn more about what the state-level Women's Initiative Coordinator can do to help chapters and the council implement successful Women's Initiative programs.

 

Regional Women's Initiative Ambassador Job Description (pdf)

A description of the volunteer role at the regional level intended to provide support to state-level women's initiative chairs and serve as a communications liaison to the National Leadership Council's Women's Initiative.

 

National Leadership Council Workgroup Chair Job Description (pdf)

A description of the role of National Leadership Council Women's Initiative Workgroup chair. It is required that this person be an elected National Leadership Council Representative. 

 

Sample Council-Level Welcome Letter to Members (pdf)

An example of a letter that a council Women's Initiative Coordinator might send to new female members.