The Board has established certain committees within the organization. According to the By-Laws, the President may “Appoint chairmen of all standing committees with the approval of the Board and assign additional duties to members of the Board as circumstances may dictate”. All committees keep minutes of actions taken and resolutions adopted.

Committees tend to be active depending on the focus of the organization. In several cases, the Chair of a committee is a member of the Board of Directors. Where this is not the case, a Board member is appointed as Co-Chairperson to the team, so that the committee will have representation at meetings of the BOD. The current committees are listed below, along with their Committee Chairperson Contact information.

Committee Descriptions and Directors
 
Building Committee  (Director: Bill Haynie This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
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Community Outreach Committee (Director: Suzanne McBride This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Seeks out opportunities for Wildlife Response, Inc to be represented in the greater community; plans and conducts community outreach activities; and develops strategies for increasing public awareness of the wildlife around us.

Executive Committee (Director: Lisa Barlow This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Determine the organization’s mission and vision; provides oversight of the Executive Director; determines policies and procedures; appoints committee chairs; conducts strategic planning; handles general affairs of the Board.

Finance Committee (Director: Sallie Pagano This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Accountable for the organization’s financial policies and procedures; develops the organization’s budget; ensures accurate tracking, monitoring, and accountability for funds; and ensures adequate financial controls.

Fund Development  (Director: Kathy Owens This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)                                                                                                                          
 In conjunction with the Finance Committee, determines the organization’s fundraising goals; develops an annual fundraising plan that will generate the funds needed to meet fundraising goals; develops a plan for involving the organization's membership in the non-grant resource development activities of the organization.  Seeks out and applies for grants. Investigates new resource development projects, activities, and ideas for possible use in the future
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Hotline Services Committee  (Director: Elyse Herron This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Trains and coordinates volunteers who answer the Wildlife Referral Hotline. Maintains a monthly calendar and distributes to BOD, Hotline volunteers, and web site designer. Chairperson will represent committee on matters of policy decision within the Board.

Membership & Volunteer Services Committee  (Director: Mr Courtney Evans This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Serves our organization's individual and organizational members; determines and implements member benefits; ensures retention through the offering of services that meet members’ needs; implements the means for making prospective and current members aware of the resources, services, and membership benefits; acknowledges new members and encourages participation in activities; identifies members' and nonmembers' needs and perceptions, analyzes them, and makes recommendations to the Board of Directors.

Nominating Committee  (Director: TBA)
The responsibility of the Nominating Committee shall be to submit to the Managing Members of the Corporation a list of candidates for the Board of Directors.

Organization Development Committee  (Director: Lisa Barlow This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Collaborates with Board of Directors to keep the organization’s policies and procedures up to date; ensures diversity within the organization; conducts Strategic Planning in conjunction with Executive Committee; oversees Board governance processes; and maintains the Board Policy and Governance Manual.

Public Relations Committee  (Director:  Cindy Lakin  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Plans, develops, and maintains our website; responds to public inquiries; oversees marketing strategies; ensures a strong web presence conducts outreach with news media; in collaboration with the Community Outreach Committee, plans and conducts community outreach activities.

Rehabilitation Services & Education Committee  (Director: Lisa Barlow, LVT This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Supervise rehabilitation volunteers. Coordinates wildlife rehabilitation classes conducted by members and nonmember wildlife rehabilitators. Maintains statistical information regarding rehabilitation efforts. Represents wildlife rehabilitators on matters of policy decision within the Board.

Rescue & Transportation Services Committee  (Director: Jared Watts This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
Coordinates wildlife transport and rescue.  Manages transport volunteers and represents wildlife transporters on matters of policy decisions within the board.

Mission
Wildlife Response, Inc (WRI) is dedicated to the preservation of wildlife through rehabilitation and education. One of the most universal challenges today in the battle to save wild things and wild places is how to bond people to the physical world in a powerful enough way to give them the motivation to want to protect and preserve it. It is especially important in our growing suburban and urban communities to increase significant associations connecting people and nature, especially where natural environments and natural experiences are less and less common. On a local level, the steady arrival of new residents to the Hampton Roads area is having a overwhelming impact on our wildlife and natural environment. As we accommodate this progression, it is essential that people who now call the Hampton Roads area home understand the sensitive balance of human and non-human populations, the affect we have on the natural environment, and the best ways in which we can coexist.

Purposes and Goals
Wildlife Response, Inc. has two associated, yet distinct, purposes or goals. Our primary purpose is:
To treat and rehabilitate sick, injured, and foster orphaned wild animals with the goal of releasing them back into the wild.

We accomplish this by:
Maintaining and supplying a wildlife rehabilitation network to properly care for wildlife in need of assistance
Offering the latest training for our members and other licensed rehabilitators

In light of the fact that most problems wild animals encounter are related to people, either directly or indirectly, our second purpose is:
To give assistance and advice in matters involving wildlife by promoting humane treatment of all wildlife through information, education, and community programs, so we can coexist with our wild neighbors.

More explicitly, our goals are to:
Enhance people’s understanding of nature and habitats and our wild neighbors that depend on those places for their continued existence.
Make the case for why protecting wild things and wild places is not only ethically sound but will also help to safeguard our own survival.
Increase awareness about how our natural and man made environments interconnect.