Just Stuff

Well i've been pretty busy the last couple days or actually this whole week i guess. I started talking to mom about the program she does at work and we got to talking about how she doesn't really have the time to put into it any more with all the stuff she does so i am pretty interested in it. The basis of the program is that you do for example an hour of service for someone so you earn an time dollar for your hour of service then u can use that time dollar to buy someone elses services. Its basically a way to build the community up and bring people together. I am very interested in it because i've been looking at this stuff on kindness and community Service projects and stuff like that and wanting to get involved in that some how. So i've been thinking about working with mom on the program and sort of starting to revamp the program some and just sort of bring it back to life.

I have already sort of been thinking of some things to do. The first thing i would do is call all the people in the program and see if they are still interested in it or not that way we would know who would be willing to do stuff and who wouldn't.

Then i've thought about maybe putting together a newsletter type thing just a little one page update one the program and activities each month maybe highlighting certain services each month. I just want to do something that keeps the members up to date and in the know about whats going on, what's happening.

Another thing i found that you could do with the program thats not being done is sending out bank statements each month to show people what amount of dollars they have. I also think that would be a great idea.

Also i thought of getting on some kind of email system where we could keep people updated by email. We could do the newsletter over email for the people who have it and the bank statements too then we would be saving money on paper and postage and stuff like that.

I think that we should do a new sheet for people to fill out with information on it that would include new stuff like the email if they have it and so on. And then this would just refresh the info we have and make sure the stuff they need is up to date and what they can provide is up to date to.

I don't have any ideas about recruiting new members yet but i'm gunna try and figure something out for that. The only thing mom told me was she would catch new people when they come to the center for a food box or for emergency assisstance or whatever but not much besides that. There's gotta be something along that lines that i could do.

The only problem with this whole plan that i have is that i'm very scared about making phone calls and doing stuff like that which could put a big damper on the whole call everybody plans, ya know. I don't know what i'm gunna do about that. I've been working on the problem with my counselor but only twice so its still hard. The good thing is though that mom said her and her boss could still be there for doing any public speaking things because thats definitly not for me at all.