Hi All,

It’s officially the last week of my fellowship, which means that today is my last day with Huckleberry House, and this is my final blog post! As I reflect on the past 10 weeks, which I still can’t believe have flown by so fast, I am in awe of how much my professional and personal life have changed and so grateful to the Huck House team for supporting me these past few weeks not only as a their summer fellow but also as a young person figuring out what I want to do post graduate school.

It was truly a pleasure to come into the Administrative Office every day and help Huck House serve the young people of central Ohio, right up until the final moments of my last day. As a result, my final week was filled with “dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s” tasks such as following up with potential partners so they knew who to contact after my last day and compiling all the SROI and individual impact data I had collected into one document. However, I also got to have some fun and enjoy one of Carol’s delicious cupcakes at my surprise last-day celebration.

Lastly, the Advancement Team and I had a meeting to ensure they have access to all the reports, spreadsheets, resources, emails, contacts, etc., I have gathered over the past 10 weeks which I hope will prove useful in the coming weeks as they wrap up Safe Place material distribution, start training our new partners, and stragetic plan for the coming years. In my opinion, how a person or organization handles a transition/exit period says a lot about them, so I wanted to make sure I was proactively future-planning for the team who have been nothing but helpful and caring to me.

In closing, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the Columbus Foundation for this opportunity and to the remarkable team at Huckleberry House for making my fellowship experience so rewarding. I look forward to seeing what the future holds for both me and Huck House in the coming years!

All the best,
Emoni