Thank you for your interest in being part of the Sierra Club community!
The Toiyabe Chapter’s values stem from our commitment to make equity, anti-racism, inclusion, and justice integral to every part of our organization and our work. As such, we are asking all new and current volunteers to read through and commit to the following Community Agreements, Data Confidentiality, and your rights as a Toiyabe Chapter volunteer.
Community Agreements
The goal of this agreement is to help foster a community of trust, set a baseline of expectations that is in line with our principles and values, and hold ourselves accountable to those same principles. Our chapter requires that all of our staff and volunteers comply with national Sierra Club SR. 2.2.6: Standards of Conduct. These Affirmative Standards of Conduct require that we:
- Communicate and work together with common courtesy and collegial respect; disagree without being disagreeable.
- Create a welcoming environment for new members, visitors, guests, staff and volunteers. Avoid cliquishness, behavior that fosters an “insider” vs. “outsider” culture and language, or behavior that offends others. Seek to welcome and engage people who reflect the diversity of the community.
- Always represent the Club and its mission in a positive and professional manner; keep disagreements within the Club.
- Accurately present the Club’s policies and positions when communicating on behalf of the Club; don’t use a Club leadership role or title to advance personal views that are not the Club’s position.
- Respect your obligation to the Club’s members; use member lists and information about members for Club purposes only.
- Use Club resources wisely and in keeping with the fiduciary responsibility of all leaders.
- Foster an open democratic decision-making process; respect decisions once they are made.
- When speaking of other Club leaders praise publicly, criticize privately and tactfully.
- Seek to resolve differences with other Club leaders, avoid factionalism and behavior that exacerbates or prolongs conflict.
- Respect the policies and procedures that have been established by and for members engaged in specific Club activities; when in doubt, ask.
Data Confidentiality
Our data is the basis for much of our power at Sierra Club. It is vitally important, particularly in regard to our member and supporter data, that we are careful with how it is used and shared. Although not all volunteers will have access to privileged or confidential data, we ask that all members of the Toiyabe Chapter community be aware of how the data is used and adhere to the following data confidentiality agreements.
All volunteers must agree to the following:
- Keep data private. As a volunteer, you may have access to confidential or private information. During your time volunteering with the Sierra Club and after, do not share or allow the disclosure of confidential or private information. This includes insight into endorsement decisions, privileged member and volunteer data, and details of internal confidential planning conversations.
- It's the Sierra Club’s data. All lists, reports, data, information and other works produced by the volunteer within the scope of their relationship or work with the Sierra Club is the sole property of the Sierra Club. You will only have access to the data needed to complete your volunteer jobs and only for the duration needed for your work.
- Keep your accounts secure. As a volunteer, your username and passwords to accounts to which data is shared (Google, Campfire, Salesforce, email, etc.) are for your use only. Please do not share your passwords or accounts with anyone.
- Data breaches happen. Let us know. If you notice or suspect a security breach to any account associated with Sierra Club, immediately notify the Chapter Director or the ExCom Chair.
- Upon termination of their relationship/work for any reason, the volunteer’s access to all internal information sharing networks shall be removed.
