Today, FOP gave out food to the community. It, I felt, was an intense event. But, in retrospect I see that it was business as usual for the rest of the FOP staff, and it was this aura of the staff and thus, the atmosphere of the office that made the day intense for me. It […]
This week was a pretty exciting week for my organization. This marked the first week of Tuesday markets at Eastern Market where the Food Academy sells their Mitten Bites. Although the kids in the summer program haven’t actually started to make them yet, two other interns from Duke University are manning the tent for them
The Suburbs Alliance is really unique in its organizational culture. As I previously mentioned in my last blog, the actual space of the Suburbs Alliance is very open, colorful, and well lit. This working environment fosters a culture of collaboration, which the Suburbs Alliance is big on. For example every Monday we have
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It’s been a wild week already at Nortown CDC! Still in utter amazement by all of the work that the ladies in this office take on, and so thankful that I am along for the ride. As I mentioned in my last post, my project this summer is to conduct park research in District 3.
Community can be interpreted as isolated pockets, perhaps like separate elements of a larger whole, and there is validity to that. In some ways communities are in the world, but also isolated from it; or at least from the abundance of other peoples who gather around different goals or principals. In the way that communities of professionals are
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First thought: fellow and intern–interchangeable, right? Both of us are just temporary staff volunteers that are supposed to keep quiet, work had, get bossed around and repeatedly told how replaceable we are. We’re all just doing this to embellish our resumes with big brand names of agencies and organizations even though we don’t really learn
“But first let me clarify: Fellow, not Intern” Read More »
Over the course of a couple weeks I have come to love the city of Detroit along with its numerous wonderful sights. Though not everything is how they used to be, I still find beauty in them because I know they once stood for something beautiful. Also my job allows me to see another aspect
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It has been another great week at GRDC. As I spend more time at the organization, I really have gotten to understand that the organization really touches all areas of the Grandmont Rosedale community. This Tuesday we had our first all staff meeting. There I got to understand that GRDC is doing a ton of
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The best way to describe DPS, as I may have previously stated, is “short staffed and over worked”. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. Everyone here just works so hard! They all just have a lot on their plates and it strikes me that things might run more smoothly if each person didn’t
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A lot is going on in Highland Park and with the 4803/HP Collaborative! Right now, as I mentioned in my previous post, the organization is undergoing a couple different research initiatives to help identify problems and solutions in the community. A big concern that my director, Charlene, has is for the youth and senior citizens
