Internships

During my time as the Summer Learning Coordinator, I wrote job descriptions, hired staff, prepared trainings, set rules and expectations, designed t-shirts, established effective communication strategies, delegated my responsibilities to those I hired, budgeted, worked with community partners to plan events, and at the end of the summer even ran a carnival for about 300 people. I was also in constant communication with parents and tracked data in Google Sheets. I worked with United Way's grant writer at the end of the summer to put together an annual report and discuss data analysis.

I came to understand what it takes to run a program at a non-profit organization. It takes good problem-solving skills, and you must be ready to jump at anything that comes your way. 

I wish I didn't have to leave United Way. This experience left me knowing that when I graduate, I want a job that leaves me knowing I am making a difference in the community.

It is important that every parent in the program attends a meeting before the program begins. In this meeting, we go over the rules/expectations of participating in the program as well as the schedule and timeline.

I edited a presentation from previous years and translated it into Spanish. I conducted a total of 8 meetings, most of them in Spanish. We held meeting in person and virtually.

After participating in the meeting, parents signed permission slips for transportation to field trips via Franklin School District busses, a photo release, and emergency contact information.

Before the program began, I needed to hire five student aides to assist me in preparing for the program and to assist the teachers in the classroom.

There was no existing job description for this position, so I wrote one and sent it to people I thought may be interested. The community center Director also sent it to people she knew. 

I interviewed and hired all of the people referred to me by the Director. 

Every year, the Summer Learning Manager coordinated with Noorda School of Osteopathic Medicine to put on a carnival for the students and their families on the last day of the program. Noorda provides approximately 50 volunteers for the event and the Summer Learning manager and aides plan the activities. In coordination with the aides, I organized the event and purchased all necessary supplies. 

I created this video which highlights the main activities at the event!

At the end of my internship, I created the Summer Learning Annual Report on Canva in conjunction with the information I received from the grant writer and a statistician. 

The information for the annual report comes from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation grant, which the grant writer puts together every year. Because both the grant and the annual report contain the same information, we worked together in deciding what needed to be analyzed and how. The grant writer and the statistician provided information, and I organized it nicely in the template for the grant and for the annual report, following United Way branding guidelines.