We had our first gardening event this week which involved weeding all of the beds, adding stakes, and planting flowers!
It was excruciatingly hot outside but with a team of five we got it all done. The veggies are growing a lot but the recent weather isn’t making it easy on them. We will likely have to push back our first Farm Stand to the last week of July or the first week of August.
Our original goals included having a banner by now. However, after some emails and brainstorming we have decided that the best course of action would be to create a garden webpage or add the garden and an interest form on the Columbus ECDI page. While we would love to see a nice banner up, having a webpage will allow the banner to be less crowded and since the garden is an ongoing project having a set place where people can find the opportunity to get involved will benefit in the long run.
As for the Women’s Business Center, we have multiple projects going on. JP Morgan Chase has released a mentorship program for “small businesses,” so we created a form for our members to submit if they would like to be recommended for it. Doing this allows us to determine if they are eligible to apply before we recommend them.
A few of my bosses are also working with Elevate Northland on the Northland Unity Festival and they secured ten vendor spots for ECDI members! This also required a survey and automation sequence, and Samantha the Marketing and Communications Manager designed an email to go out with the survey embedded!
ECDI’s main building is a refurbished schoolhouse that was built in the 1900s. It is absolutely beautiful on the inside, but construction has started on the building. So as I sit at my cubicle I see my other bosses, John and Terry, run around with the construction crew. Today we had to refile literally thousands of lending loan documents, strangely enough it wasn’t too bad of a time. I guess it really pays off to work somewhere with good vibes.
All in all, it was a pretty great week and I have been given more design and data projects to work on next week. In the next few weeks there is a big board meeting, a data deadline, and ongoing construction so there’s lots to look forward to in the near future!
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