This past week at Habitat i was finally assignede my project to work on. I will be in charge of putting together or at least starting the end of the year thank you party for the volunteers. Being a nonprofit and having a very very small budget this will be a challenge to get everything donated and to find a venue. I need to find a park to hold 250 people and possible donated space. Let me know if you have any ideas.
This Saturday was my first day of being on site at 5:30 am, by the way starbucks is not open that early, I pretty much made sure all the volunteers went to there assinged lot number and got everything they need. I also had to take pictures of everything going on wich was a little hard only having one hand but i made it work. We also had a wall raising for one family which was pretty excisting and everyone on that job site signs the walls of the house with blessing to the family, pretty awesome to wittness.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
FIRST WEEK
This past Thursday and Saturday were my first two days at Habitat for Humanity. Every Thursday I will be in off at their Phoenix office doing basic office duties like copying, data entry, calling volunteers,keeping up there facebook/myspace (they are very excited to finally be on facebook and myspace) and in the future I will be doing volunteer orientations and working on projects. I'm pretty sure that my "big project" is to coordinate the end of the year Thank You BBQ for the volunteers. So looking for a location and donations are our big focuses for that event.
Every Saturday I will be on site at 5:30 am, yes that's right 5:30, in the morning every Saturday to coordinate volunteers and make sure they are taken care of and building houses. So, there go my Friday nights, but i am honestly really excited about this internship. This past Saturday we had a kick off breakfast for all the team leaders, shift leaders, and house leaders who are all volunteers themselves but have been doing it so long that they are now able to lead the builds. After sitting down and talking to these volunteers that find being a part of what habitat such a privilege they offer so much of themselves to the organization really got me excited about interning here this fall. They do so much more than i thought they did and there is so much to learn there I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it all in by the end of this semester.
Every Saturday I will be on site at 5:30 am, yes that's right 5:30, in the morning every Saturday to coordinate volunteers and make sure they are taken care of and building houses. So, there go my Friday nights, but i am honestly really excited about this internship. This past Saturday we had a kick off breakfast for all the team leaders, shift leaders, and house leaders who are all volunteers themselves but have been doing it so long that they are now able to lead the builds. After sitting down and talking to these volunteers that find being a part of what habitat such a privilege they offer so much of themselves to the organization really got me excited about interning here this fall. They do so much more than i thought they did and there is so much to learn there I'm not sure if I'll be able to get it all in by the end of this semester.
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