BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The Board of Directors governs the operations of the NAWAFL Chapter. The Executive Board is made up of the President, Vice Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and Past President. Coordinators are members of the full Board.

PRESIDENT
The President arranges board and presides over the meetings, supervises board positions and activities including: finance, exhibits, meetings and any activity under the NAWAFL chapter name; files reports with the National office twice yearly and as needed. She reports to the President of NAWA and the Liaison and consults them regarding policy questions. The NAWAFL Chapter operates under the bylaws and regulations of the National organization. She prepares a statement for the annual exhibition. The president signs all contracts and holds a Chapter credit card.

VICE PRESIDENT/EXHIBITION CHAIR
The Vice President operates under the direction of the President. Her position includes overseeing all chapter exhibitions with the coordinators from each part of Florida and helps them to stay on track. She updates the master sheet and presents it at the monthly board meetings. She is responsible for filling in all venue prospectus and finding jurors for exhibitions.

The Vice President can sign exhibition venue contracts and fill in for the President when needed. This position often leads to the presidency but not always.

TREASURER
The treasurer’s role is to balance the organization’s income and expense sheets. She sends quarterly and fiscal year end reports to both the NAWAFL President and NAWA’s National board. She collects and deposits all income transactions (member dues, entry fees, and donations through Smarter Entry) and pays all expenses (reception costs, awards, operations fees and scholarships)

Each fall, she coordinates membership renewals with the membership coordinator and the National Office. She holds a tax-exempt certificate and can sign all venue contracts.

RECORDING SECRETARY
The person in this position regularly takes minutes at monthly meetings and sends compiled minutes to the president and board for approval. She maintains a copy of the NAWA bylaws.

MEMBERSHIP COORDINATOR
The person in this role maintains our member list with any additions or subtractions necessary. Her busiest time of year is during our members dues renewal period in the fall of each year. She verifies each member has renewed national dues through a program called Bloomerang prior to accepting NAWAFL renewals.

All new members to our chapter go to the membership coordinator through a submission form from our website. She sends out welcome letters and collects all pertinent information for our membership list.

She sends an updated list to the president with every change.

EXHIBITIONS COMMITTEE
There are several exhibition coordinators on the east, west and central/north regions of Florida. Their responsibility is to approach new venues for future exhibitions for our chapter. They are guided by the VP/Exhibition chair who helps them to fill the prospectus for each show, questions to ask each venue and all necessary details to help the exhibitions succeed and proceed professionally.

SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
This person coordinates and organizes a committee of volunteers to make the scholarship program successful. One of their responsibilities as a committee is to find the students who will be receiving the awards. That can happen through a high school or university art program. The chosen student can receive a one-time award or be followed and mentored for their four-year program, depending on what the committee chooses to do. 10% of all our exhibition sales goes to our scholarship program.

This committee can organize fundraisers or solicit local businesses if they choose to augment their allotment for the year. They organize the reception to present the scholarship award to the extend of their desired outcome.

LUNCHEON COMMITTEE
The Luncheon Coordinator organizes the Annual Spring Luncheon. She secures a venue which is presented with a budget to the board, sends the invitations, prepares a program and hires a speaker. She arranges to greet guests and arrange seating.

NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE
The Newsletter Coordinator twice a year gathers and writes chapter news, events and member's accomplishments which are posted to the website and emailed to the membership.

HISTORIAN
The Historian collects exhibit and event programs, invitations and any published articles for keeping in the files.

GRAPHIC DESIGN COMMITTEE
The graphics design team are tasked with creating content for the social media team to post on our social media sites. Examples of the work they do could be invitations and marketing materials for our upcoming exhibitions, rack cards, special projects such as playing cards with members’ art featured on each page.

WEBSITE COMMITTEE
The Website Committee will review and update the Chapter website on an as-needed basis. The Chair of the Committee will be responsible for maintaining content on the website.

PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
The Programs Committee Chair works with her Committee to develop ideas, plan and execute various programs for members and potential members, such as field trips, workshops, speakers, etc.

SOCIAL MEDIA COMMITTEE
The social media team is responsible for maintaining our FB & Instagram posts to help us to increase our exposure as a chapter. Examples of posts they will make for us are artist of the week, reception and awards winner photographs, upcoming exhibition news with dates and details, artist interviews, and articles of interest to our members.