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40+
Years of Education, Support, Advocacy
10+
Executive Roles
160+
Leaders
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a Passion for Inclusivity, Equity, and diverse representations
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Benefits of Volunteering with ICAN
Gain valuable work experience that can be added to your resume, while supporting a non-profit maternal health organization! The ICAN Board of Directors can and does provide employment references and letters of recommendation for collegiate or other educational programs for volunteers that use their ICAN experience on resumes and applications.
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What our amazing volunteers think
The International Cesarean Awareness Network began in 1982. It was conceived from two friends supporting one another in navigating their birthing preferences and the challenges they faced in accessing respectful care. When these friends realized how powerful this specific niche of peer-to-peer support, education, and advocacy could be Esther Zorn and Elizabeth Handler wanted to share it with the world. They volunteered their time around kitchen tables, before the internet, hand-drawing logos, pasting Clarions together for print, and being available to listen while their little ones danced in the room next to them. They volunteered their talents, time, money, and energy simply because they knew how much it mattered. It would be impossible to measure the impact these choices have had, or what would be missing if they’d made a different choice. Help us continue a legacy of choosing to give to a cause that is still very much needed today, 40 years later. Bring your unique perspectives, skills, lived experiences, and passions.
Free Training and Certification
We provide a self-paced module-based classroom during onboarding. After receiving your ICAN Leadership Certificate you will gain access to private online Leadership spaces with peer leaders and Executives where questions and collaboration are always welcome. In addition, there will be tools and tech solutions available to non-profits that will supercharge all of the good you can do!
Gain valuable work experience that can be added to your resume, while supporting a non-profit maternal health organization! The ICAN Board of Directors can and does provide employment references and letters of recommendation for collegiate or other educational programs for volunteers that use their ICAN experience on resumes and applications.
Available Positions:
- Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee Members
- Engage in an on-going examination of ICAN’s internal and external practices
- Contribute to continuing cultural awareness and bias education for Chapter Leaders
- Promote our fund for Chapter Leaders of Color
- Raise awareness of the bias in the maternity system faced by WOC, the differently-abled, LGBTQ, the poor, the women of size, teen moms, etc
- Create access to information and training to non-English speakers
- Review our material including its sources and resources for inclusiveness
- Director of Professional Memberships
- Experience with or willingness to learn Canva, Airtable, WordPress, and Google drive
- Maintain the professional members’ directory including contact info and logo/headshot
- Promote and encourage professional membership
- Webmaster
- Maintain and update ICAN’s websites as needed
- Maintain and update ICAN’s websites as needed
- Director of Executive Volunteers
- Maintain a list of available positions
- Advertise available positions
- Conduct video or phone interviews of applicants
- Executive volunteer not the right fit? Consider joining or opening a chapter!
If you would like to volunteer your time and talents to ICAN, please contact ICAN’s Board of Directors for more information on how you can help!