{"id":2077,"date":"2019-05-26T19:13:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2019-05-26T19:13:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T23:13:54","slug":"successful-first-week-at-a-nonprofit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/2019\/05\/26\/successful-first-week-at-a-nonprofit\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful first week at a nonprofit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the first week of immersing myself in the role of a communications intern for a nonprofit organization called Voices of September 11<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>in downtown New Canaan, Connecticut, I am confident that it will be a valuable experience from which I will take many important lessons.\u00a0I feel that I have made a positive personal contribution to the organization, even just in the first few days on the job. I have already been given several significant tasks which have kept me very busy every day.\u00a0I am pleased to have landed an internship in which I am involved in the accomplishment of meaningful work.<\/p>\n<p>On my first and second days on the job, all of the interns went through orientation and training with the other staff members, where we were familiarized with how the company operates and what we will be doing throughout the summer.\u00a0 We were also given individual tasks as well as a group project for all of the interns to work on together. I was personally in charge of creating a 2020 social media calendar for the organization. This task involved the transferring of events from the 2019 calendar and also performing research on any new and noteworthy events to add to the new one. Given the nature of the organization, a lot of my research revolved around acts of terror around the world, and any relevant awareness days, such as World Safety Day, among others, which I discovered in my research and subsequently added to the calendar.\u00a0I also wrote out small reports on the organization\u2019s milestones from 2017 and 2018, which will later be added to the organization\u2019s website. This involved researching the organization\u2019s updates and events from both of these years and compiling this information into a succinct and eloquent account.\u00a0 I also went through the Voices of September 11<sup>th<\/sup>website and looked for any defunct links and proofread articles which are soon going to be uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>The third and fourth days were occupied by our first group project, which is still in progress. All of the interns are in charge of performing research on 9\/11 responders who have died in recent years due to various illnesses resulting from toxins present at the event.\u00a0 We then input biographical data into an Excel spreadsheet and also into the organization\u2019s office management system, FileMaker. The goal is to eventually create an archive on the website for all of this information. Evidently, it is a heavy task, but it is certainly an important one for the progression of the organization\u2019s objectives. For this reason, I am glad to be taking on such a significant role within the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first week of immersing myself in the role of a communications intern for a nonprofit organization called Voices<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[76614],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-contributions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/jepsoninternship2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}