Role:

This volunteer role is a good fit for an academic, current or former researcher or reporter, or
stay-at-home parent who is comfortable navigating the Web and cultivating a list of sources to broadly track events, announcements, blogs, and press coverage of the relationship of politics to business.

Responsibilities:
The researcher’s main responsibility will be to keep BFA up to date on the evolving relationship between American business and public/civic life. This will likely include tracking the online activity, announcements, and progress of large and small businesses, business organizations,trade associations, Chambers of Commerce, nonprofits, and BFA partner organizations
throughout the US, looking for noteworthy examples and milestones related to businesses
taking an active role in supporting a healthy democracy.
The researcher will be asked to distribute a prioritized summary of new content on a weekly
basis for use by BFA internally and in communications with BFA members. The researcher
should have a background that includes significant online research experience in some field, a general familiarity with business, and sufficient writing and analytic skills to be able to
recognize, organize, and summarize appropriate content.