I finally know what it’s like to have strangers slam a door in my face. Well, okay, it only happened a few times, and it wasn’t really a slam as me getting two words out and the residents backing very quickly into their homes with, “We’re really not interested,” and a quick closing-and-locking maneuver. This […]
Meeting Community Members (Finally) Read More »
I had never realized until working at one, that non-profits are not the well-oiled machines that corporations are. One could argue that the work that they do is much more valuable from a social standpoint, but moving information and coordinating with people outside of the organization is proving to be more and more difficult as
Project 1 for me was our annul health fair. Myself and another intern had been preparing for this for about 4 weeks. I couldn’t wait to see how it was going to turnout. Everything that could have possibly gone wrong, went wrong!! I came into the office at 7 a.m. (real dedication) and I was
The big day is here and it almost bombed!! Read More »
Last week kind of flew by. We were supposed to be preparing for the health fair, but I feel like as an organization we managed to do a lot of other things. My supervisor wasn’t in at all last week due to a busy schedule and I think the only thing that made that difficult
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This week was a very fresh change of pace and environment for me at Focus HOPE. So I will just speak on my two highlighted moments! You can rest assured that I’ve also been doing all the work I have previously spoke as well. On Tuesday I attended an event for Data Driven Detroit. It
Week Seven at Focus:HOPE, an extreme change of pace Read More »
One of the main lessons I learned this week was, creating and passing out surveys is exciting, but retrieving, recording, and analyzing the data is not that great. I was able to round-up 82 high school students to take a survey I created, while telling them details about the program. Being in the public sector
This week I’ve really been trying to contact new people, and organize the information I have into the literary review that will be my final product. I know this is something many people experience in their jobs but it is so frustrating when people don’t call you back! From now on I’m forever answering emails
I know my main project is to create a vacant property manual which is pretty much set, except my supervisor really wants information from DPD which is apparently almost impossible to get. (Yea they still haven’t contacted me back!) So I guess that project is on hold which makes me sad! But anyway, I’ve been
Week 7 – Trying to Survive in the Heat! Read More »
This week was exciting because we are moving offices! I moved a ton of files on Wednesday from one side of our building to the other (perhaps 6 or 7 filing cabinets full). This is one side of the working world that I wouldn’t have anticipated: that periodically (could be anywhere from 3 and 7
Moving! or Week 7 @ Detroit 300 Read More »
I had a little time on my hands so I figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to write my post. Well right now we are preparing for our 2nd community meeting. Our first one was in River Rouge at the River Rouge library and now our second one will be in 48217 Southwest Detroit
Preparing for Meeting Read More »
