Week Three

This week has been productive and fun! Our primary task this week was to contact organizations we were unable to communicate with last week. As of today, we have 38 surveys completed. However, we are currently working with Extend A Care agencies and the YMCA of Austin to get surveys completed for there various sites. We hope to see that number increase significantly with our follow up calls.

We have also begun working on the administrative survey of the CTAN Mapping study. A meeting was held with Laura to overview the childcare survey so that we can tailor the questions to administrative personnel of out-of-school time providers.

Tuesday and Friday was our fun day! Tuesday was eventful with professional development trainings! Our first fun meeting was facilitated by the financial opportunity crew. They held a very interesting, insightful and interactive session on credit. We learned about credit reports, credit scores and how to improve our credit history. The second training was about becoming volunteer project coordinators. Again, we learned a lot about leading volunteer projects in our communities. There are many details the must be considered when coordinating event! Our last meeting was an organization-wide training about learning the functions of other departments at United Way. We learned how the goals of various teams collectively work to achieve the mission of the organization.  Friday we were able to do outreach work with the financial opportunity Vistas. We were given the opportunity to explore Austin while distribute informative flyers about the BankOn campaign. Overall, it was an awesome week!