Committees
PENN SACCA needs your help!
The perfect opportunity to become an active PENN SACCA member! Choose the committee of most interest to you and help to fulfill our mission to guide, champion, and represent out-of-school-time professionals. We are seeking dedicated members with skills and expertise they would like to share on the following committees:
  • Adovcacy
    • Strengthens relationships with key partners who can advance our vision through better coordination of services and resources to support advocacy efforts.
    • Coordinates and facilitates an advocacy campaign geared toward advancing the mission and vision of PENN SACCA.
    • Monitors and responds to legislation, information, and public policies affecting school-age care and related fields. 
  • Membership and Communications
    • Align membership with NAA’s MOA
    • Develop and maintain web-based and print materials regarding membership
    • Recruit new members
    • Contact members with expiring/expired memberships
    • Process memberships in a timely manner
    • Follow-up on any membership inquiries
    • Survey membership to determine how we can better meet their needs
    • Communicate with NAA as required by MOA 
    • Creates, solicits, and distributes materials to the membership no less than twice a year.
    • Edits and distributes the organization's newsletter, PENN SACCA Reports.
    • Supervises the maintenance of the PENN SACCA web page.
  • Finance
    • To oversee fiscal reports prepared by the treasurer and any outside accountants.
    • To ensure required annual tax and government forms are prepared and submitted. 
    • To assess the accountant’s annual review of fiscal records and submit to the board for approval. 
    • To recommend the annual budget for approval to the board. 
    • To set long range financial goals 
    • To determine financial strategies to achieve financial goals 
  • Governance
    • Reviews bylaws, policy and procedures and makes suggestions for revisions. 
    • Annually assess needs for board composition by determining the knowledge, attributes, skills, abilities, and influence of board members, and assess what future issues the board will need to consider. 
    • Design and implement an ongoing program of board education to keep board members knowledgeable enough to discharge their duties as individuals and as a board. 
    • Lead the board in an annual self-assessment of the board's performance and propose. 
    • Draft a recruitment plan and continuously cultivate outstanding community leaders as new board member prospects. 
    • Oversees the election process of board members and officers.
  • Professional Development
    • Guides OST professionals towards participation in networks 
    • Maintains PENN SACCA's presence at local, regional, statewide, and national conferences 
    • Implements and/or advertises OST professional development opportunities 
    • Plans and oversees the annual PENN SACCA conference.
Download the Volunteer Opportunity description page for more information.