Patrick: Week 2 (January 24-28)

After finishing the record keeping tasks I wrote about last week, I moved to the task of organizing our organization's credit card receipts by month and scanning them as PDFs so that we can easily access back-up copies of them in the event that the physical copies become damaged or lost. With the receipts scanned and organized by month, I created monthly expense reports using Microsoft Excel. With this essential task completed, I then moved to the task of updating a master list in Excel of all the donations our organization has received since its founding. As part of updating this list, I also updated our mailing list concurrently to reflect both new donors and new non-donor "friends," who are typically interested in ACLGF's programming and opportunities each semester. Overall, this week provided me with hands-on experience concerning both the practice and importance of keeping accurate and usable donation records when either working for an existing non-profit organization or starting one from scratch.