COLLABORATIVE BOARD
Since 2017, Beauty After Bruises has moved from a traditional board, comprised of a president, vice president, and so on, to a collaborative board. This means that no one person is the sole executor of decisions for BAB, nor of the direction it is headed; we decide things together, collectively, as a team.
Made up of 5-9 individuals, we tap into the personal strengths of each board member while also rotating important responsibilities (i.e. chairing meetings, recording minutes, accessing the finances, etc). The only exception to this is our Survivor Outreach Liaison, who always remains the same, as they have access to all requests for financial assistance, client applications, and similarly confidential communications with our survivors and their treatment teams. In order to secure our survivors’ ultimate anonymity, while ensuring their voices are heard, this position exists to connect our survivors with the larger board safely.
Beauty After Bruises' board is made up of a diverse group of individuals — including financial advisors, small business owners, healthcare workers, educators, and survivors themselves. This gives us the unique opportunity to consider things from all angles and supply the healthiest support to those we help, the communities we engage with, and the clinicians we educate.
Your safety is as important to us as our own.
In order to protect that safety, we no longer keep our board members' names easily accessible, all in one location, as it can pose harm to us all. Working with such a vulnerable and heavily-targeted population poses some unique risks that we make top priority to mitigate at every level - for you as well as us. We also want to remind you that the only communication you will ever receive from us will come from the following email addresses: beautyafterbruises, bab.grantrequests, beautyafterbruisesevents and bab.vendors - all at gmail.com.
Any interaction we have with survivors will only be initiated by you. Any correspondence on social media - in comments or messages - will happen through our official BAB accounts, and at your request. If you ever receive communication outside of these locations, please contact us at beautyafterbruises@gmail.com to verify the sender's authenticity before responding, and to keep us aware of potential imposters. If you are ever unsure, or just feel nervous, never hesitate to verify with us. We would always prefer to offer reassurance for safe communications than for either of us to discover too late that someone was being dishonest.
Together, we aim to protect our survivors, one another, our communities, and future generations from harm. We also aim to make each stronger, more compassionate, and more vibrantly free!
