Monday, 14 February
When I checked my email this morning, I had an email from the Director of FaF, Furnish-A-Future, our free furniture and housewares bank for families moving out of the shelter system and into housing, asking if I had found any information on potential donors for FaF.
On January 20th, I left the panel discussion session with the FaF Director to do research on her database for our Lead Advocate. While traveling to Bushwick, Brooklyn, the location of FaF, we talked about my goals for this internship and beyond school. I told her I was interested in grant writing and development and she enlisted my aid for finding donors for the furniture and housewares for her warehouse. She suggested I scour the Bowery District for potential housewares donors and I enthusiastically agreed to it.
So, here we were, two weeks later and I had barely begun my research on this. I told her it would take some time as I was working on other projects, so when her email showed up in my mailbox this morning, inquiring about the status of my 'development,' I wanted to let her know that I was at least still thinking about it, even if not directly. I had given it some thought previously, about how to do this research, and emailed her that I would be heading down to the Bowery District later this week to walk door-to-door and pitch my sale. I planned this for Tuesday, tomorrow, and let her know.
Today, I researched everything about the Bowery District, once one of the oldest trade streets in NYC, still much the same. The restaurant and lighting districts are down there, two merchant types ripe with potential FaF donations.
I was in for 7 hours today.
On January 20th, I left the panel discussion session with the FaF Director to do research on her database for our Lead Advocate. While traveling to Bushwick, Brooklyn, the location of FaF, we talked about my goals for this internship and beyond school. I told her I was interested in grant writing and development and she enlisted my aid for finding donors for the furniture and housewares for her warehouse. She suggested I scour the Bowery District for potential housewares donors and I enthusiastically agreed to it.
So, here we were, two weeks later and I had barely begun my research on this. I told her it would take some time as I was working on other projects, so when her email showed up in my mailbox this morning, inquiring about the status of my 'development,' I wanted to let her know that I was at least still thinking about it, even if not directly. I had given it some thought previously, about how to do this research, and emailed her that I would be heading down to the Bowery District later this week to walk door-to-door and pitch my sale. I planned this for Tuesday, tomorrow, and let her know.
Today, I researched everything about the Bowery District, once one of the oldest trade streets in NYC, still much the same. The restaurant and lighting districts are down there, two merchant types ripe with potential FaF donations.
I was in for 7 hours today.
posted by Ruth at 8:33 PM
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