{"id":37,"date":"2015-09-14T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/?p=37"},"modified":"2020-05-06T17:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:39:23","slug":"biac-internship-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/2015\/09\/14\/biac-internship-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BIAC Internship: Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first week interning at the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut proved to be what I expected: fast-paced and informative.\u00a0 I was introduced to the staff I did not already know, shown around the office, and then I directly began working to organize the 11<sup>th<\/sup> annual Walk for Thought.<\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about working with BIAC so far has been their attitude.\u00a0 As opposed to previous internships, I feel that the work I do is valuable and necessary to BIAC\u2019s well-being.\u00a0 They have trusted me solely with the organization of one of their biggest fundraising events of the year, and I cannot be more grateful for that.<\/p>\n<p>In the first two days there were quite a few small tasks to accomplish.\u00a0 I spent the majority of those days in the office sending emails and making phone calls to past volunteers and participants to see if they would volunteer their time again.\u00a0 Examples: calling Rentschler Field to set up a site visit, contacting various vendors to get their availability, and seeing if local fraternities and sororities are interested in volunteering to fulfill their community service requirements.\u00a0 I found it especially helpful to make a list of important dates, as part of my responsibilities include scheduling meetings with companies we have purchased Walk items from and managing the FirstGiving website (i.e. closing early bird registration).<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Julie and I will sit down and go over what I have done so far and figure out some answers to a few questions I have regarding contact information for certain volunteers and scheduling.\u00a0 This week I am also scheduled to meet with the company from which we order T-shirts to decide on colors and pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first week interning at the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut proved to be what I expected: fast-paced and informative.\u00a0 I was introduced to the staff I did not already know, shown around the office, and then I directly began &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/2015\/09\/14\/biac-internship-week-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}