Hello Everyone! I hope you all are enjoying your meaningful work at your host sites! 

As I’ve stated before in previous blogs, my job this summer as a summer fellow at Community Shelter Board consists of many things, but my main focus has been helping my supervisor, Sara, with everything regarding coordination and planning for CSB’s 2024 Founder Awards Ceremony. Since we are getting close to the end of our fellowships, I have been doing everything I can to make as much headway as possible on this event before I go. One of the most important aspects of this event are the interviews of our honorees being conducted by NBC4 to be shown at the event and mentioned in the media. This week I officially sent over all of our media materials to NBC4 and have locked in and confirmed spaces for the interviews to take place. I am excited for next week as I will be attending the interviews solo and assisting to make sure the interviews go as smoothly as possible for NBC4 and our honorees.

This week I have also been working on other components to prepare for the event. I drafted three press releases to be sent out after the event, three fully designed eblasts to highlight our honorees’ achievements, and updated our slides to be shown at the event. I also have other logistical responsibilities such as communicating with our web team to explain how we want our landing page to look for our guests to rsvp and ordering the engraved glass awards for our honorees. 

Aside from work, we had an all staff outing this week at Cosi! It was nice to spend time with my colleagues outside of the office and have some fun. We split up into teams and had a scavenger hunt and our team won the prize!