This week was a big week, as I started my work in Keela and started creating the forms we need. I am still interviewing with volunteers and gaining feedback with my volunteer survey. This week was more of a wait for responses on the survey mixed in with the interviewing of team leads, as well as fosters and general volunteers. It has been a great experience getting to know all of the members involved with Speak! for the Unspoken, and with each interview I have, I am more and more amazed at the passion each volunteer has for the work Speak! is doing! It has been great speaking with everyone and I am grateful that everyone has taken the time to speak with me and their honesty in their responses. As they are volunteers, I feel it is important to keep in mind they most likely have plenty of other responsibilities and how valuable their time is, which is what makes each interview so important. Speak! relies solely on it’s volunteers, so I want to make sure I speak with as many of them as possible so that I can have the most informed response to their feedback when it comes to implementing changes. I want to make sure that I create an atmosphere where the volunteers know they are valued and just how important their opinion and feedback can be!

Next week, I plan to interview more volunteers, as well as get more results on our survey. Right now we have about 20% of the desired responses for the volunteer survey, so I plan to be making a lot of calls in hopes of speaking with them rather than having them fill out the form. I also plan to do a little research about local rescues to get a better idea of how this particular field functions across the board not just in Speak!. Looking forward to the work I will be doing over the next few weeks, and it so crazy were approaching week 5!?