SIJP Volunteer Guidelines EN

SIJP Volunteer Guidelines

Seattle IT Japanese Professionals (“SIJP”) is a Washington nonprofit corporation recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. SIJP sets the following mission and, through information technologies (“IT”), makes various social contributions to people who are involved in IT and to Japanese people in Seattle: We are the professionals of information technology rooted in Seattle area who empower technology professionals and help the local community. SIJP’s past activities include, but are not limited to, holding lectures by people of merit in technology areas and by Japanese people with great achievement in Seattle, workshops about technologies and career, programing courses for children, providing IT support to other nonprofit organizations and tours at IT companies. These activities through IT in response to social needs are widely accepted and highly valued in the IT and Japanese communities in Seattle. These SIJP’s activities are supported and carried out by each staff member, including its directors; that is, based on the above SIJP’s mission and purposes, SIJP planners, regardless of a student or non-student, with support of other divisions as needed, freely choose activities with their own interest, take responsibilities, and fulfill their roles in conducting them. Although all staff’s activities are provided free, through social contributions in the areas of their interest, each staff member finds and gains intangible values such as self-realization, expansion of imagination, discovery of possibilities, challenges, rewarding feeling, satisfaction, networking, learning, and experience. SIJP respects all staff members’ desires and motivations in pursuance to their activities at SIJP and, by taking into account their varied opinions and thoughts, works with them to find ways to leverage these opinions and thoughts for SIJP’s activities. SIJP also builds necessary ties within the organization and strives to create an environment that provides information, resources, and a network to carry out its activities. Any pressure or coercion in conducting volunteer activities at SIJP, if at all, must be immediately reported to SIJP directors and/or legal division. SIJP accepts, as a base of its activities, only volunteer activity based on staff members’ free will and excludes any and all pressure or coercion to their activity. Before participating in SIJP’s various activities, all SIJP staff members must understand the contents of these volunteer guidelines and “Addendum to SIJP Volunteer Guidelines – For Students.” SIJP pursues and strives to realize SIJP’s mission and purposes with motivated staff members.

Contacts:

SIJP Directors: directors@sijp.org

 


Addendum to SIJP Volunteer Guidelines ― For Students ―

Seattle IT Japanese Professionals (“SIJP”) welcomes college and university students who are motivated to serve society through SIJP’s mission and purposes. SIJP has a Student Division, which consists of college and university students in the Seattle area. SIJP Student Division provides Japanese students in Seattle with opportunities to enhance their skills by using information technologies (“IT”) and to enrich their understanding of IT. By doing so, SIJP fosters young adults capable of leading in today’s fast-paced, modern IT society. SIJP Student Division, through its activities, also underlines the importance of having a global vision and encourages students to take a first step to conduct broad activities without being bound by any conventions. Please visit https://sijp.org/student-division/ for more information about SIJP Student Division and its detailed activities. While SIJP recommends and supports each staff member’s volunteer activities to contribute to society, SIJP emphasizes that pursuing academic programs at the college or university to which SIJP student staff members enroll is the primary responsibility of the students. Therefore, any volunteer activities at SIJP must be provided on the premise that such activities do not negatively affect any schoolwork. Student staff members’ responsibility for volunteer activities at SIJP can be carried out AFTER they fulfill their responsibilities for their study at school. SIJP respects the motivations of student staff members who seek self-realization through social contribution based on SIJP’s mission and purposes. SIJP strives to thoroughly enforce sound execution of its volunteer activities.

Contacts:

SIJP Directors: directors@sijp.org

 


SIJP Volunteer Guidelines Ver. 05122016