Shelly, our executive director, went out of town this week. Her sister is due to have her baby any day and she went home to be with her family. Since we are an organization of two, that left me alone this week. Shelly gave me a laundry list of things to do while she was away. I have been slowly chugging away at that list.

After all the prep of Green Drinks last week, we held the event on Wednesday night. We had a script typed up for our emcee to use for trivia, we had a scoring sheet created and we had a table set up with merchandise and information about our nonprofit. We had enough people come to create five teams. My personal favorite question was “How many elephants’ worth of material is landfilled per day in central Ohio?” Answer is 720 elephants, or 3,600 tons (source: SWACO). Green Drinks was a lot of fun and it was a great opportunity for me to meet more members of the board.

The rest of this week I have been working on our membership model and looking into adding a business level partnership. Our plan is to present our research and ideas to the board next week at the board meeting. I have also started the process of writing our first ever newsletter, and Shelly gave me the distinct pleasure of going to our storage unit to take inventory. We have a lot of excess shirts and sweatshirts from Earth Day that we need to track and try to sell. Keep your eye out for our online sale / fundraiser soon!

After Green Drinks on Wednesday the president of our board asked me if there was anything specific I wanted to grow my skills in. Honestly, I do not know what areas of skill I want to grow in or invest in. Dr. Lomax asked us a similar question this week at the Columbus Foundation. He asked us to define our why, and that determines our what. I think part of this experience for me is clarifying my why, and that will hopefully lead me to develop my what.