3 ms·

A few examples: - Doctors/Nurses working at free-clincs, - Legal professionals will sometimes offer their services for free to needy individuals (I don't mean

by NeoTar 3y ago

A few examples: - Doctors/Nurses working at free-clincs, - Legal professionals will sometimes offer their services for free to needy individuals (I don't mean no-win-no-fee, but more writing a letter to a landlord on a tenant's behalf) - Many people in the accountancy profession will offer their services to local groups/societies as treasurers or to do annual accounts, (indeed the whole boards of such groups are often unpaid, but may be less of a profession), - Often at least some members of a board-of-directors for a charity will be volunteers, As a more out-of-left field example, I recently met a really quite famous academic volunteering as a tour-guide at a historical house.

seabass-labrax 3y ago
> Legal professionals Pro bono legal work, which is unpaid, is actually a requirement for practising lawyers in some jurisdictions. New York is one such example. > Often at least some members of a board-of-directors for a charity will be volunteers Depending on how you define the terms, all of the directors will be volunteers. The most common structure for charities is a board of trustees/directors between around 5 and 10 members, who are all unpaid and part-time. The board is led by the Chair(man, woman) of the Board, who is otherwise just an ordinary board member. The meetings are facilitated by the Chief Executive, who is not a board member but a full-time, paid employee of the charity. Underneath the Chief Executive are other full-time paid staff who are supposed to follow the leadership of the Chief Executive, and who often don't get to attend the board meetings. This group may be any size between zero and thousands of individuals! Confusingly, some organisations call certain people in the middle-management of this team 'directors'. To conclude: Board: unpaid - '(Non-executive) Directors', 'Trustees' or 'Councillors'. Staff: paid, usually full-time - includes 'Executives', '(Executive) Directors' and possibly many other non-management roles. Some charities' boards get so large they become more like the parliaments of liberal democracies - Speakers, votes, elections. That's only the most conventional structure - I'd be happy to elaborate on the edge cases too! :)
morkalork 3y ago
I had a language teacher that before working professionally spent many months as a volunteer teaching free classes for immigrants and refugees. The way he made it sound was that nobody got hired without doing that free work.

by NeoTar 3y ago

seabass-labrax 3y ago

> Legal professionals Pro bono legal work, which is unpaid, is actually a requirement for practising lawyers in some jurisdictions. New York is one such example. > Often at least some members of a board-of-directors for a charity will be volunteers Depending on how you define the terms, all of the directors will be volunteers. The most common structure for charities is a board of trustees/directors between around 5 and 10 members, who are all unpaid and part-time. The board is led by the Chair(man, woman) of the Board, who is otherwise just an ordinary board member. The meetings are facilitated by the Chief Executive, who is not a board member but a full-time, paid employee of the charity. Underneath the Chief Executive are other full-time paid staff who are supposed to follow the leadership of the Chief Executive, and who often don't get to attend the board meetings. This group may be any size between zero and thousands of individuals! Confusingly, some organisations call certain people in the middle-management of this team 'directors'. To conclude: Board: unpaid - '(Non-executive) Directors', 'Trustees' or 'Councillors'. Staff: paid, usually full-time - includes 'Executives', '(Executive) Directors' and possibly many other non-management roles. Some charities' boards get so large they become more like the parliaments of liberal democracies - Speakers, votes, elections. That's only the most conventional structure - I'd be happy to elaborate on the edge cases too! :)

morkalork 3y ago

I had a language teacher that before working professionally spent many months as a volunteer teaching free classes for immigrants and refugees. The way he made it sound was that nobody got hired without doing that free work.