We're not just here to hitch a ride until we die. Well, I'm not anyway. I feel like I've been given so much that there are some contributions I need to make along the way. But actually delivering can be scary sometimes as Seth Godin points out. Still, I like his style. So in the spirit of What-Did-You-Ship, as volunteer director of HOPE worldwide Cincinnati Chapter, here's what I delivered in 2010.
- 2 Blood Drives and ~200 pints of blood
- Provided toys for ~2,000 children
- Provided meals for ~100 families for the holidays
- Developed and held HOPEville, a homelessness awareness program with ~70 participants. Created new partnerships with Faces Without Places, Project Connect, and the Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless.
- Presented on the subject of working with church leadership and volunteers to the HOPE worldwide US Chapter Think Tank
- Established a youth service aspect to the Cincinnati chapter that provides service opportunities to high school and college students
- Sent volunteers on 6-week Americorps assignments
- Sent volunteers on 2-week HOPE Youth Corps assignments
- Provided volunteers for Go Cincinnati
- Provided volunteers for three community safety fairs
- Placed a representative on the HOPE worldwide National Chapter Advisory Board and the National Youth Advisory Council
- Wrote and submitted a grant application to Impact 100
- Established and implemented fund raising and program funding conduits
- Initiated a grassroots communication strategy for development across the HOPE worldwide US Chapters
- Connected Cincinnati volunteers with other volunteers around the US and the world
- And, most importantly for me, created a vision and opportunity for other volunteers to step up and do things they didn't believe they could do
The "I" seems presumptuous, I know. Please understand that there is no way I could not have done this without a ton of help from some really great people. Please forgive me if your name should be on this list and it slipped my mind. Feel free to put it in the comments.
- Convergys Corporation's Chris Holtman and Brooke Beiting
- Lorrie Jenkins, Kim Isaac, Laura Huesman, Justen Harris, Livia Dilts, Gillie Collins, Lisa Craig, Eliot Isaac, Steve Ruhl, Kathy Baumhardt, Mark Baumhardt
- Two Men and a Truck (Hamilton East) and Meagan Rhodes
- Toys R Us (Florence) and Joshua Cox
- The Cincinnati Church of Christ
- Sogeti's Dale Sterling
- Empower MediaMarketing
- Cargill and Virginia Foreman
- Carespring and Debbie Moore
- Ideal Fitness and Connie Douglas
- The Myers Y. Cooper Company and Faith Taylor
- Crossroads Church
- Faces Without Places and Beth Griffith-Niemann
- Project Connect and Karen Fessler
- Impact 100
Tufte has taught me to put my name on everything (about 1/3rd of the way down), good or bad, so that I can take pride in and accountability and responsibility for my work. To keep me humble, I may post a list of all the things that didn't ship in 2010. That list includes some really important things.