"It's Crunch Time"

These last few weeks have been pretty hectic at Cancer and Careers. To start, they are in the process of doing some renovations around the office as well as hiring new people.Therefore, my lovely little desk and room space has been moved over to the conference room. All interns are now required to work in the conference room until things are settled in. The downside of working in the conference room is that I am constantly having to step out when a meeting is taking place. Lately, it’s been happening more frequently since their biggest end of the year fundraising event is approaching. The annual Beauty of Giving Luncheon takes place at the Waldorf Astoria during this month of December.

I have been helping out with preparing the invitations, updating the board members guest list, sending out invitations via Facebook and other tasks for the Beauty of Giving event. This charity event is sponsored by Shiseido cosmetics and other beauty companies. The proceeds from the event and the live auction prizes will be benefiting Cancer and Careers. Therefore, spreading the word and doing as much outreach to the community about this event is crucial. Some of the other projects I have been working on is updating the Cancer and Careers website en Español being that I am fluent in Spanish. I have also been in charge of doing Outreach for 2011 to other other organizations throughout the country. Most of the time I’m doing research online, making phone calls and sending out the Cancer and Careers newsletter to other non-profit organizations and hospitals.

Since my work at Cancer and Careers is nearly coming to an end soon, I am now looking for another internship possibly for the Spring 2011. The other day I happened to be at a local bar with some friends watching the football game and somehow met a girl who works for the DOT. I put my networking skills to use and exchanged emails with her. She works for the DOT as a Public Space Planner for the Capital Project Planning and Initiation division. I had mentioned my interest in Urban Planning and she offered to meet me next week during lunch time to give me a tour around the DOT offices downtown and answer any questions. I’m looking forward to finding out more information about the programs and divisions at the DOT.