• Plan, schedule, communicate with retreat teacher and facility
• Serve as coordinator *
• Serve as registrar *
• Serve as manager *
• Plan meals, shop for food, cook *

Thursday Night Meetings (See Thursday Night Meetings)

• Coordinate with meeting place host
• Open and close
• Set out dana baskets and set up table
• Put away chairs and tables after evening is over
• Plan activities, coordinate with teachers/speakers/facilitators *
• Facilitate sittings and discussions *
• Give simple instructions for beginning meditators at the beginning of the sitting (can read from Sitting Instructions) *
• Teach classes for beginners
• Do announcement about dana *
• Schedule people to do announcements about dana
• Tape dharma talks *
• Bring cookies *
• Schedule people to bring cookies *
• Schedule interviews with visiting teacher
• Provide a place for visiting teachers to rest/stay over *
• Feed visiting teachers *
• Take a turn sitting with the children (Note: we are not providing child care at this time)
• Coordinate child care (Note: we are not providing child care at this time)

All Day Sittings (See All Day Sittings)

• Plan, schedule
• Host sittings

Special Small Groups/Classes (diversity study, sutta study, womens' group, kalyanamitra, etc.)

• Plan, coordinate, schedule
• Host meetings

Special Events (gatherings, picnics, vision parties, etc.)

• Plan, coordinate, schedule
• Facilitate
• Host events

Membership Meetings (See Membership Meetings)

• Plan, coordinate, schedule
• Facilitate *
• Host meetings *
• Attend/participate *

Board (See Board Meetings)

• Serve on the board
• Serve as president
• Serve as vice president
• Serve as secretary
• Serve as treasurer
• Host meetings

Fund Raising

• Plan, coordinate, schedule *
• Do nitty gritty work such as organizing and helping with yard sales, writing letters and thank you notes, cooking dinners *
• Provide home for meetings, yard sales, etc.
• Donate money, yard sale items, auction items, etc.

Communications, Library, Resources

• Maintain mailing lists (email and postal)
• Prepare and send sangha mailings (email and postal)
• Prepare and distribute membership list handout
• Edit quarterly newsletter *
• Create/maintain packet for newcomers -- see Information and Introduction
• Maintain web site
• Provide information for the web site and newsletter *
• Keep the Inquiring Mind informed about the Albuquerque sangha *
• Put announcements about sangha events in the Alibi and other newspapers *
• Serve as sangha librarian for tapes and books
• Loan or donate tapes and books *
• Transcribe dharma talks from tape *
• Prepare sangha "yellow pages" *
• Check post office box, handle mail that arrives

Other

• Provide vision and leadership
• Explore how we can be a more diverse sangha and make it happen *
• Explore how the sangha can serve the community and the world and make it happen *
• Participate in special task forces as needed such as location search, teacher search, sangha building, welcoming, Thursday night guidelines, Consensus Collective
• Participate in teacher feedback groups
• Coordinate with the Santa Fe sangha
• Handle non-profit corporation issues
• Maintain sangha financial records and prepare financial reports and tax forms