Analysis Of The Trumbull Food Pantry

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For my leadership project, I decided to collect donations from the Trumbull Food Pantry. To organize it, I went on Trumbull’s town website home page to get a list of the most needed items from the pantry. From there, I was able to talk to my mom and her administration assistant to put a box in their office so people could drop off their donations. To inform people about this, I drafted an email and my mom sent it out from her work email address with everyone on her team in it informing them about what I was doing and what donations the Trumbull Food Pantry was asking for. My mom’s work team was involved, my mom was involved, I was involved, and the Trumbull Food Pantry, specifically Jennifer Gillis and Monica Valejo in the Social Services Department,

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