So...it's been about a month, but with finals, graduation, and moving it doesn't feel like it.
Don't worry I've been here.
Lately, we've been working a lot on the development end. I wrote my first "ask" letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for First Night, our New Year's Eve event. My job was to rework it, so it sounded new, but asked the same thing. Then I had to find, edit, and attach: organization descriptions, project descriptions, budget, and sponsorship benefits. Ironing out the benefits seemed to be the most troublesome since the event is still pretty far away and details are not completely established.
I feel like I am getting into the groove here too. I just drafted our Annual Appeal letter, which is off to Jay and Peg for notes and editing. I think it sounds good, but we shall see.
My other continuous project is our District Presentation list, which has me on Google and Excel constantly attempting to find people and their employers, so I can get an address. Good thing that my time spent in college on Facebook and LinkedIn were not as much of a waste as I'd thought. The list contains about 700+ names, and probably only a quarter of them were found in our donor database.
Also, I got to sit in on part of a session at Craft Alliance, where children were working on our next Earth Rabbit installation. The students make the individual pieces, and the other day they were working on feathers for the bird.
Other goings-on at Grand Center, Inc. have included the first meeting of "The Twelve," who are beginning to create GCI's "Young Friends of Grand Center, Inc" Group. We met at Kota after work to throw around ideas for what will be our inaugeral event in October.
I'll be back on Wednesday all day to help with Visionary Awards!
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