Over two weeks have gone by with nary a post! Whatever has happened to that quick sprite named Zoe? Doth have gone to thy frosty wet lands doth named Portlandia? Alack doth thou stricken betwixt doth Shakespeare thee thou forsooth doth, on the morrow?
This is what happens when you work 11 hours in a day! Left at 7:15, got the office at 8, crammed some food in my mouth around 2, worked through the day until 7, relaxed for a minute, got home at 8:30, then worked from about 11 to midnight.
WHOOOOOOO!
It's enjoyable. I'm either fully, half, or only partially running about four programs right now - Help for Holiday (full time), Operation School Bell (set up/help two afternoons a week), volunteer coordination (fully responsible for but kind of failing at this), soliciting donations (jointly with Irene), planning community education classes for the spring. Plus all the random office stuff that is assigned to no one and so is done by everyone.
WHOOOOOOO!
Most exciting note of the month: I wrote that quarterly newsletter, right? And put a random note in the middle of the front page saying "be a food pantry superhero!" (Note: catchy title totally stolen from a poster I saw at PSU). So one day this lady walks into Irene's office and says, "I saw that bit in the newsletter about needing money for your food pantry, so here's...$500". Then she walked out, trailing stars and glitter. That's how I picture it, anyway, I wasn't there but Irene told me it was because of the newsletter.
I raised $500 which will keep our food pantry going for two and a half months!!!!
Fact: use of emergency food boxes are increasing across the country (steadily since the 90s actually) and currently in our food pantry.
Fact: $400 can fill our food pantry for the month.
Fact: With that $400 in October, we served 224 families - over 800 people.
Love you all!
Go, Zoe, Go!
ReplyDeleteMy heart swells with pride.