Hi Nicole,

I'm a member of the leadership team of my state org (Georgia) through the Georgia Hospital Association. GHA has a director of membership societies who is our staff liaison. GHA holds and disburses funds and does lots of the big logistics for our annual and smaller conferences, like hotel contracts and related items. Our leadership team includes this liaison but otherwise is all volunteers from member hospitals. We meet monthly to manage society business, such as sponsorship levels for conferences, ed session content, awards and the like. We host a multi-day annual conference in the spring as well as a one-day fall ed session. (After our February conference we decided to move to a fall conference in 2024 so will have 2 one-day sessions in fall 2023 and spring 2024, and then our annual conference in fall 2024.) We do have awards to recognize both our outstanding gift shops and exceptional volunteer programs. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk more specifics.

-Alex

Thank you both so much for your responses, this is helpful, and I will pass along the info. 

How many members does the committee consist of? Do you have conferences, events or fundraising sales through the organization? 

Hi Nicole - I'm a member of California Hospital Association's (CHA) Committee on Volunteer Services.  The committee includes paid volunteer management staff and volunteers/auxilians.  CHA has a Volunteer Services Program Manager who works with the committee on our annual conference, mini-conferences and provides overall support to California hospital volunteer programs.  Historically our annual conference has been in February and our mini-conferences (Northern California and Southern California) are in the fall.   The committee helps secure sponsorship, speakers and attendees for the both the annual and mini-conferences.  Our annual conference is two days and our mini-conferences are one day.  Please reach out if you would like additional details.