Chairperson Executive Board of Directors for Non-Profit Start-Up

• Job Posting: Chairperson, Board of Directors
• Location: Remote (with quarterly virtual meetings)
• Commitment: 10-15 hours/month | 2-year term
• Lead With Purpose as Our First Board Chairperson!

At Responder Relief Fund Corp (RRF), we're searching for a visionary leader to guide our Board of Directors as we expand our mission to support first responder families in crisis. This is your opportunity to shape the future of a growing nonprofit while making a real difference in the lives of those who protect our communities.

🌟 About the Role

As our volunteer Chairperson, you'll provide strategic leadership to our Board while working closely with our Executive Director. You'll be the driving force behind:

• Leading impactful board meetings that move our mission forward
• Mentoring fellow board members and fostering collaboration
• Representing RRF to donors, partners, and the community
• Ensuring we stay true to our vision of rapid response aid

✨ Why This Matters

Your leadership will directly enable us to:

• Deliver critical aid within 24-72 hours of disasters
• Grow our capacity to serve more first responder families
• Build sustainable funding and partnerships
• Maintain the highest standards of governance

🔍 We're Looking for Someone Who

• Has leadership experience (nonprofit, corporate, or community)
• Can inspire and unite a diverse team around a common mission
• Understands nonprofit governance (or is eager to learn)
• Is passionate about supporting first responders
• Can commit 10-15 hours/month to guide our organization

💙 Why Volunteer with Us?

• Create lasting impact for heroes and their families
• Grow your leadership skills in the nonprofit sector
• Join a passionate team making a real difference
• Flexible schedule - most work can be done remotely

📩 How to Apply

If you're ready to lead with heart and purpose, we'd love to hear from you! Please send your resume and a brief letter explaining why this role excites you to brian@responderrelieffund.org.

No prior board chair experience? Don't count yourself out - we value leadership, dedication, and passion above all!

• Responder Relief Fund Corp

Rapid hope for heroes when disaster strikes

• Note: This is an unpaid, volunteer leadership position perfect for experienced professionals looking to give back.
• My "Why" for Responder Relief Fund

I want to share something with you that has lived in my bones for over 30 years—a memory that refuses to fade.

In 1992, I was 26 years old, running my landscape business with the invincibility of youth. One of my employees had a father who owned a major construction company. When Hurricane Andrew ravaged Florida, he was invited to bid on rebuilding Homestead. He gathered subcontractors—including a wide-eyed kid like me—and flew us down on his private jet.

What I saw from the air stole my breath.

Miles and miles of nothing. Neighborhoods reduced to splinters. Schools, churches, homes—all flattened like a child’s block tower kicked over. The silence was the worst part. No birds, no laughter, just the hollow wind through broken beams. We landed in a warzone without bullets.

His company never got the contracts. But that flight home? I stared out the window at the ruins below, and something in me cracked open. A question started burning: Who helps the helpers when the unthinkable happens?

For three decades, that question followed me like a shadow. Through careers and life’s twists, I’d wake sometimes to the smell of wet lumber and chaos—that Florida air thick with loss.

Now, at this chapter of my life, I’m done waiting. Responder Relief Fund Corp isn’t just a nonprofit. It’s the answer I wish had existed when first responders dug through those ruins in ’92 with bleeding hands. It’s the promise that no firefighter, no EMT, no officer who runs toward disaster will ever face the aftermath alone.

I’m sharing this because I need you to feel why this matters. Not just understand it but carry it with you the way I still carry Homestead. If that resonates—if you too hear the echo of forgotten heroes in the wind—then let’s talk. Really talk. Not about spreadsheets or strategies, but about how we can build something that outlasts us both.

The jet landed long ago. But the journey? It’s just beginning.

• With urgency and hope,
• Brian H. Myers

Founder, Responder Relief Fund Corp

• P.S. When you’re ready, I’ll tell you about the firefighter I met in Homestead who’d lost his own home but still wore his uniform. That’s who we’re doing this for.