Week three consisted of a ton of meetings and interviews with volunteers of Speak! for the Unspoken. I was able to disperse my survey to the volunteers this week which was very exciting! Reaching out and speaking with all of our volunteers is probably the biggest task I have this summer, so I was eager to get started! So far we are having a pretty good response rate to the survey, and mostly everyone I have reached out to for an interview was just as excited to meet with me. I am so grateful for everyone taking time out of their day to meet with me, the feedback they have to provide is so important to the success of the organization. Everyone that becomes involved with Speak! becomes invested in watching the success stories of all the beautiful rescues, and I am so happy to be using my strengths to help this organization keep saving these precious dogs!

Now that I have officially become oriented with how a majority of Speak! functions, I can focus on the processes they would like to change, as well as implementing the solutions we come up with. I have spent a surprising amount of time learning new software and different capabilities of everyday programs so that we can use them more efficiently. It makes total sense now that I have done it but I was surprised how much time I would spend researching but also how much I already knew about the programs that would be helpful to the organization. It has been a great experience thus far, and I am so excited for the work I will be doing in the upcoming weeks. This upcoming week I plan to start reforming their applications, as well as having them created in their new system. In order to do this I have to have a few more meetings, but it will be nice to meet new volunteers as well as get new feedback about their experiences as a volunteer.