JBInvolved

About Me

I have spent a glorious week with my husband, at home… on our computers…working. Pitiful right? I don’t even feel like I was home an entire week. My days were go, go, go. I was either running around meeting important people at the local hospitals and checking on referrals with one of my supervisors (yes I said one of), or I was at home on the computer researching. Who would have thought that researching volunteer opportunities with local charities was so time consuming? And could someone please tell me why you wouldn’t post volunteer information on your website? Why do people put a link that specifically says “Volunteer” and then have nothing useful? This is the 21st century people, no one wants to talk on the phone. I want a direct link to whatever application I need to fill out and check boxes for the volunteer jobs I want to take. Good grief.

So, in case you haven’t noticed, I had to email several people to get more information. The coordinator at the Make-a-Wish foundation was nice enough to email me and attach the application and all the information I needed. I sent those off in the mail today. Now I have to wait up to 4 weeks for my background check to be approved. I guess my word isn’t good enough .

Then I received an email from the lady at the United Way. “Please call me for more information on volunteering.” Really? So not only did I go to the site and find nothing except an email address but that wasn’t the right means of communication. I just want to get through this application process so I can get started on what is important in all of this.

So, what did I get accomplished with this? Killing trees. I printed off every bit of information I could find from each organization that I felt was important and organized it into a binder. So far this is my adventure into becoming a Philanthropist.