Friday, 14 January

Today was a continuation of yesterday's work. I spent the bulk of the morning going back and forth with the Grant Writer and the CEO about how we wanted to write the letter of interest (LOI) to the Foundation which, I thought, was due today (the one I referenced yesterday). We decided one important thing: the letter didn't need to be mailed today; in fact, we could wait a week on it considering the deadline isn't until March. However, the CEO gave me a list of changes to make to the Grant Writer's work and I was determined to make them. This required actually writing the letter! The first assignment where I am allowed full creative license! This was a difficult task, though, and required a good bit of research on the Partnership to be able to write a fully knowledgeable letter. In the end, the Grant Writer took over it because I was swamped with other tasks (though, at this moment, I can't tell you what all I was working on- just that I was busy all day long).

Also today I worked on learning the language of the Housing and Preservation Department's website in order to answer our lead Advocate's questions about the addresses she asked me to research. I quickly discovered the website's incompetence at explaining the violations summary reports and found myself calling around to different HPD departments to have my questions answered. Nobody wanted to help me. One gentleman even suggested I come down to his department for assistance. For the most part, the difficulty in them answering my questions rested in fact that they were looking at a different format than I was, so they couldn't explain to me what was on the screen. Grumble, grumble, grumble.

I worked 8 hours today.