This week was a short one at the office given that my boss was only in town for a few days amidst back-to-back development and fundraising trips. Whenever my boss is away on such trips, he never fails to return with a sizable number of new contacts in the form of business cards. Translation: I spent much of these few days entering potential donor and faculty contact information into our MS Excel databases. As you can probably guess, this job is a tedious and thankless one. However, I take solace in the fact that, without accurate and ever-growing mailing lists, we would not be able to continue prospecting for the ever-critical donations that keep our doors open and our lights on every day!
Other than these and various other data entry tasks, I also worked this week on getting charter bus quotes. We are hoping to possibly bus a group of students to a premiere of the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged in Chicago. If the Chicago premiere option falls through, I will be working on getting a private screening of the film here in Champaign for donors, faculty, students, and other interested parties to attend. My boss and I are going to try and coordinate the showing of the film with presentations and discussions from some of our faculty fellows. I am really hoping that we are able to carry out this event to full fruition without any "deal-breaking" snags. This event seems to me to be an opportune vehicle through which we can increase student, faculty, and general public awareness of our organization! At the very least, I need to get reading. I must admit I have yet to read Ayn Rand's seemingly timeless novel.
I hope everyone is well. Best wishes for a great weekend!
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