When talking to the staff at Cradles to Crayons about their views on strengths and areas of improvement for the organization they all targeted the volunteers. When asking about this with them they had discussed their frustrations with volunteers who come in and do not give the effort that we expect and in repercussion, we spend more time redoing and fixing mistakes at every time. When looking at this from an intern’s perspective, I see this as a lack of effort but instead a lack of coaching by the group leaders. I say this because at Cradles to Cradles we have volunteers come into the facility on a daily basis and with this, we have a number of different activity’s that we can set up for them to help us meet the organizational goals. As part
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When looking at the organization’s board of directors it provides leadership, business acumen among other things. When looking at each individual city they also have Family Advisory Council and Corporate Advisory Council. The members of each of these groups play a gigantic roll into the goal of to providing children in our communities with the essential items they need to thrive. The people who make up the board of corporate board of directors at the Cradles to Crayons in Philadelphia are made up of people who are part of an organization who has helped in Cradles to Crayons goals. It was explained to me that these members were chosen based on donations and or time committed to the organization. When looking into the two other city’s boards of directors, I found them to be similar but significantly smaller than …show more content…
One of the first things that I would suggest would be the change in the handling process of how they take in donations. As I see it the handling process is far too long and I would try and eliminate the number of times a person has to pick up each individual item before its given to a child. Another area of improvement that I would like to see would be to change in how volunteer groups and activities are paired up with each other. What I mean by this is that when choosing a group activity for 7 -year -old girl scouts it would be different than the one you would give PECO volunteers. I feel we could be much more effective if we would prepare the activity around the groups instead of the other way
When looking at the organization’s board of directors it provides leadership, business acumen among other things. When looking at each individual city they also have Family Advisory Council and Corporate Advisory Council. The members of each of these groups play a gigantic roll into the goal of to providing children in our communities with the essential items they need to thrive. The people who make up the board of corporate board of directors at the Cradles to Crayons in Philadelphia are made up of people who are part of an organization who has helped in Cradles to Crayons goals. It was explained to me that these members were chosen based on donations and or time committed to the organization. When looking into the two other city’s boards of directors, I found them to be similar but significantly smaller than …show more content…
One of the first things that I would suggest would be the change in the handling process of how they take in donations. As I see it the handling process is far too long and I would try and eliminate the number of times a person has to pick up each individual item before its given to a child. Another area of improvement that I would like to see would be to change in how volunteer groups and activities are paired up with each other. What I mean by this is that when choosing a group activity for 7 -year -old girl scouts it would be different than the one you would give PECO volunteers. I feel we could be much more effective if we would prepare the activity around the groups instead of the other way