San Juan Island Pride Foundation
The San Juan Island Pride Foundation exists to serve 2SLGBTQIA+ folks on San Juan Island and beyond by cultivating connections to one another, resources, and our regional community and culture.
We're exciting to be recruiting for new and improved Board positions!
Now is a great time to get involved with SJI Pride! We've recently revamped our board position descriptions to more accurately reflect the work we do and the variety of programs we support. We hope you'll find something that suit your interests and your talents - we need your help to create more awesome events and programs!
Check out our Get Involved page for more information on the board positions and a link to the application form. We'd love to have you join us!
Welcome Jessa Madosky!
The SJI Pride Board is pleased to announce that the Foundation has hired Jessa Madosky as the Administrative Director for the Foundation. This part time, contractor position will help increase the capacity of the Board to focus on critical programming and governance and allow the board to respond more fully to the feedback we heard at the August Listening Session.
Jessa Madosky, former Fundraising Chair, wrote grants to secure the funding for this position (among other things) and we are grateful that they will continue to write grants in collaboration with the Board in the future. They are jumping right in to write two LTAC grants to support programming in 2027, including a potential new festival hosted by Pride.
In addition to fundraising skills, they also bring strong leadership, governance, and facilitation skills from running an international nonprofit and serving as a leader in multiple nonprofits over the past two decades, including here on San Juan Island. You can reach Jessa at administrative_director@sjipride.org - please feel free to reach out to them or the board with any questions.