This week, I started to work on Bridgeway’s annual report for the 2023-2024 year and I started to map out the content that I want to include in the report.

I decided to include a page for a staff profile to highlight our crisis stabilization program manager and a page that would highlight the program itself. I want these pages to also highlight a major success story that the program helped makes possible with a student that had experienced high levels of detrimental behavior that included self harm, but is now able to live more independently and attend classes at Bridgeway with a significant decline in those behaviors.

I also left room to include pages to highlight our Giving Tuesday campaign that raised over $16,000 for our Bridgeway Academy Market program. The market is located in the basement of our building and is a space where staff and students can come for food and snacks. The program is run by students and allows them to practice occupational skills by working at the cash register and preparing the food. Unfortunately our Food Service Manager had left so the Market has not been open for the summer but I have set up a meeting with Emily Walker who is a transition specialist at Bridgeway but who is looking over the Market in the meantime to ask for updates about the Market and its future plans.

Bridgeway’s segment on Viewpoint with Dennis Quaid was also another highlight from the previous year that I want to include into the report. The Viewpoint team reached out to Bridgeway to film a segment raising awareness for our organization. I thought this was amazing because it also raises awareness for students and adults living with developmental disabilities as well. I want to highlight this experience and include the finished segment in the report in a QR code.

Lastly, I wanted to highlight other unique programs at Bridgeway such as the Young Men’s Club lead by one of our speech therapists, Henry Newberg that I previously wrote about in a blog post. I also made room to showcase our Bridgeway theatre group that is lead by another speech therapist, Alexa Reck. Though I don’t know much about the program, I have reached out to her to hopefully get more insight into what it is and the positive impact it has on our students.

I am excited to be able to work on the annual report. I want the design to communicate Bridgeway’s brand and its values through the design and I want the stories to stand out to current and potential donors are confident about investing into the organisation.

I am also continuing to work on our charity regatta campaign. Unfortunately, we haven’t raised much money from the campaign but I spoke to our Director and she said that she was more focused on the content that we put out for it. I will continue to promote it as much as I can and think of ways that would encourage people to donate.