Development Department/Awards Coordinator

I am so looking forward to and equally terrified of getting together all of the awards this semester! It is most definitely going to be a challenge, but I believe that it will prepare me in so many ways to go into the professional world. I hope that I can learn the best way to keep in contact with professional businesses and build both personal and professional relationships with them.

There is a lot more to the development process than I anticipated; however, I am extremely appreciative of the amount of detail that the previous awards coordinators have put into updating and organizing the manual and excel documents.

This past week I have mostly been brainstorming new ideas that I can pursue for potential awards in addition to the prior awards that have been donated in-kind. I am most excited about pursuing my ideas of Go Pro and Criterion Collection. I think that Go Pro would be awesome for documentary filmmaking, while the Criterion Collection would be really cool for the academic scholar award. So, this current week I will mostly be focusing on contacting our previous donors as well as contacting and gathering information on the new companies that I am interested in pursuing.

My plan is to get all the emails out by Thursday, so that I can contact them a second time by next Wednesday or Thursday. I am also going to be assisting Josh in whatever he needs for the bake sale and Ally with contacting businesses (in person, I believe).