09/12/2025
Here are 9 reasons why you should join the MMHN Board of Directors✨
1)Make a Real Impact in Maternal Mental Health
As a board member, you help guide strategy, programming, and policy to improve outcomes for parents and families.
2)Leadership & Strategic Influence
You’ll have a key role in long-range planning, approving mission statements, aligning programs with mission, approving budgets—all of which shape the future direction of the organization.
3)Governance & Oversight Opportunity
Board service gives you experience in good governance, transparency, ethical financial stewardship, donor and fundraising oversight.
4)Professional Growth & Networking
Serving on a board often expands your personal and professional network: through working with other board members, interacting with the Executive Director, engaging with donors, community partners, etc. You also build skills (finance, marketing, law, governance).
5)Personal Fulfillment
Being part of a cause that improves mental health, supports families, reduces stigma, and promotes equity can be deeply meaningful.
6)Broaden Your Skillset
If you have experience in areas like finance, law, medical, marketing, communications, or fundraising, you can bring that to the table and likely also develop more competence by working in subcommittees (e.g. Development, Finance, Governance).
7)Visibility and Ambassador Role
Board members act as ambassadors: helping spread awareness, building donor and partner relationships, enhancing the organization’s reputation.
8) Structured Commitment, Clear Expectations
The role is well defined: two-year term (renewable), meeting schedule, committee service, etc. This gives clarity and allows you to plan and commit meaningfully without ambiguity.
9) Giving Back to Community / Advocacy
If you care about perinatal mental health, equity, access to care, then this is a way to move beyond support and into advocacy helping shape systemic change.
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