Friday, 11 February

Tomorrow is the Share Your Heart Volunteer Expo 2005, held in Grand Central Station. The point is for all interested non-profit organisations in need of volunteers/support to have representatives and materials available for prospective volunteers/supporters. I volunteered to man a booth for the Partnership, but was a bit nervous about 'selling' the Partnership face-to-face with the general public. I wanted to make sure to have accurate answers for their questions and be able to represent the Partnership to the best of my abilities, so I spent some time with the Volunteer Coordinator today. She answered some of my questions with definitive answers, and coached me on how to answer the questions that didn't have canned answers. Basically, she just told me to be honest with anyone who had questions I couldn't answer; if I didn't know the answer, be honest, but helpful. She offered to do some role-play with me, practise some answers on her. I was too shy to do so, but I worked out some responses for general questions and felt better afterwards.

Also, I finally got a room booked for the next panel discussion. We're having it at one of our Board Member's office building. He's the Director of the New York Design Center, so we're getting the room for free! I've booked the camera crew and spoken with the caterer, a lovely Irish woman, to find out when I can call in the catering order (I'm waiting for RSVP's to come in, so I want to have an accurate count).

I worked a full 8 hours today.