Monthly Archives: June 2014

Weeding out Hunger

I had my first little accomplishment last week! I was able to set up a meeting with one of our potential partners for the plot against hunger, Momentive. Today I am on-boarding them into the program and orienting them to … Continue reading

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Say what?

Its the end of my second week as a full-time Fellow, and as cliche as it sounds, I don’t know where the time went! My main task at Children’s Hunger Alliance is to assign volunteers to appropriate sites, which was … Continue reading

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Cultural Orientation

This past week I took over my greatest responsibility for my summer at CRIS, leading the cultural orientation course, or CO. The CO is organized into two, four hour sessions conducted on Monday and Wednesday mornings and is taught by … Continue reading

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Happy Flag Day!

This week did not have a central theme or specific project that I worked on. The fact that I am able to work on multiple projects at once is not a bad thing but an attribute to the work of … Continue reading

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The Calm before the Storm

This is the last workday before our campers arrive!  It’s pretty quiet in the museum and office today, so I’m relishing the quiet and enjoying the chance to sit down and have a moment of peace, especially after the wild … Continue reading

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FLOWriding, a Bike Commute

It is hard to believe that it has now been two weeks working with FLOW and being a Columbus Foundation Fellow! I spent most of this week biking to the Clintonville office from my place near Ohio Dominican on the … Continue reading

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The Heart of the House

After reading my first blog post of this summer, I realized that I never introduced myself to readers of the Summer Fellows Blog! So here goes: My name is Sean Brewster and I am a senior at Otterbein University studying … Continue reading

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Finding the Right Tools

I’ve never been much of a diagram guy.  My Public Health master’s program spends a good bit of time on program planning and teaching us to create things like logic models, but as someone who tends to be more narrative-focused, … Continue reading

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The Need Conundrum

We completed the pea teepees and did great work on our herb garden. Currently corn, cucumbers, and squash are germinating and we have successfully on-boarded AmSpirit as a partner in the garden as well! The concept of food-banking may seem … Continue reading

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The Garden at MOF

One of my responsibilities at the Mid Ohio Food Bank is running the volunteer hours at the Community Garden here on-site. Last week we harvested 18 pounds of lettuce and 3 pounds of radishes that went directly into the Kroger … Continue reading

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