For the last few months, I’ve been so busy with work that I kind of disengaged with the neighborhood issues, and it felt great to participate in the “officer’s meeting” of my neighborhood association tonight. I will be working on a project to re-engage with the neighborhood on a grassroots level, by having each block captain [...]
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Voices of Refugees: volunteering at an event at DU
This week I went to help with the set up and break down of an interesting event at DU, sponsored by the African Community Center. The even was Voices of Refugees: Stories of Fear, Courage and Triumph – five refugees got up on stage and told their stories to a packed auditorium. Iraq – Haiffaa [...]
Failure to commit to volunteering
For the last 6 months since I set myself some fairly concrete goals of volunteering – I have failed to meet or engage in any of them. I have tried to be involved with the African Community Center in Denver – but have found it hard to engage other fellow volunteers. In general, I’ve been [...]
Corporate Sources of Funding
I spent some time yesterday and today looking for possible corporate funders for ACC. I started with a list of biggest companies in Denver and worked my way through each of them. Amazing! Somehow I completely underestimated the number of foundation and charitable arms of corporation. Every other company I researched seemed to offer another [...]
Volunteering at ACC: Grant Writing Logistics
Today I went to a first ever volunteer “grant writers” meeting at ACC. So far, I’ve haven’t contributed much to the organization and now finally I will have a chance to put myself to good use. I’ve been in contact with ACC for almost two months now. My assigned task is to research possible corporate [...]
Volunteering
I’d like to be a more active volunteer. Volunteer – I don’t particularly like that word – let’s just say “I’d like to be more active in the community.” What do I mean by more active? What I mean is that I don’t think I want to have my day job be my only productive [...]
African Community Center: Initial Reaction
For a while now I’ve been thinking about volunteering locally in Denver, and now that I don’t have to spend 3 hours everyday commuting to Boulder I think I can finally devote some time to it. Yesterday I visited the African Community Center in Denver. The ACC is “Denver’s newest Refugee Resettlement program which welcomes [...]
