Getting to Know

Well these past couple of weeks have been very productive. I am learning more about the operations of my host organization. About a week ago we had a staff retreat in Columbus, Oh which was very helpful for team building. I was able to meet all of the people who make it possible for Grassroots to be successful. Also, at the retreat I was able to get a clearer understanding of my role in the organization. Since the I have been working on a number of projects. One of my ongoing projects is to develop the domain Crime.org. I am currently looking for people who work in the field of a related field to help with the contents etc. Furthermore, I have been working on evaluating internal operation of the org and client outreach. On July, 26-July,28 I will be attending the NP2020 Conference in Grand Rapid,MI, which I received a scholarship for. At the conference I hope to do some networking with other organizations. In my next report I will give details about what I accomplished or learned at the conference.

Comment from Kevin Palmer on July 23, 2007 - 12:15pm

Doing an awesome variety of things and traveling a lot are definitely some of the big perks of being a CTC VISTA and it sounds like you're getting both! I was wondering what crime.org is? Also what kind of resources are you using to evaluate all the internal operations of the organization? I'm doing a little of that with an organization I used to work with and anything you've found would be great.