Internship Extension

photo credit: Johan J Ingles-Le Nobel

I’ve been at the Red Cross for 10 weeks now. Hard to believe; this term flew by faster than any other term in my college career. Yes, my first two years I was on the semester system, but still. I’m about to embark on the journey that I like to refer to as the rest of my life.

For now, I’m just extending my internship. Lise, communications director, said she’d love to have me as long as I like. This gives me the perfect opportunity to learn more as I continue the job search, and even though it’s been 10 weeks, I still think there’s a lot I can get out of (and contribute to) the Red Cross experience.

What’s in store next?

Well, after hours of signing letters and envelope stuffing, we finally finished mailing out the annual reports! Now, I’ve been putting my efforts on our blog.

We’ve been having/planning a lot of holiday fund-raising events.

Gracie’s Restaurant donated 20% of their proceeds to our chapter last night. We’re also continuing the texting fundraiser. Text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate.

Another fundraiser that we’re doing are candy-grams (no, I do not support them). I would have preferred to use flowers, but I’m not on the committee, so candy it is. They’re basically like in high school where you buy candy and write a little note to your friends in the office.

My personal favorite is buying days to wear jeans in the office. (Which is hilarious, because after I saw my supervisor wear jeans one day, I’ve been wearing them at least bi-weekly. Nobody mentioned anything yet.) You can pay $5/day or $20/5 days. We give employees stickers to wear as their “jeans pass” that has to be dated, so people don’t reuse them. We’re just doing it in our building, but I think it would be effective if we partnered with other businesses. Too late for this year, but I hopefully next year.

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~ by alisonklapper on December 1, 2010.