Community Councils
The responsibilities of the community councils are :
1. Promote SWOP in their community
- Go to the schools and talk with the youth about the SWOP program
- Tell community members what SWOP is about and what the youth do during the program
- Answer any questions people may have about the program
2. Recruit community funding support
- Call on the businesses in their community, tell them about SWOP and ask them to invest in the youth of the community by making a tax deductible contribution to SWOP
- Ask individuals to become a “Friend of SWOP”
3. Carry out annual community fundraiser events
- Help organize the fundraiser dinners and/or silent auctions for their community
- Solicit the help of the previous years SWOP youth and their parents to work at the dinner and provide desserts
- Collect in kind donations for the dinner and the silent auctions
4. Conduct youth participant selection process in their community
- Organize the selection committee
- Participate in the selection
- Help notify the youth of their decision
