Day 13: Monday June 24th - 9am to 5pm
This day was basically a repeat of last Wednesday. I worked some more to develop our social media and schedule posts for the upcoming week.
Day 14: Wednesday June 26th - 9am to 3:30pm
Below are some pictures from the EITC folders I put together for Laura and Ellen to send to local technology companies asking for a donation. The Educational Improvement Tax Credit allows companies to donate $100,000 to an approved non-profit program and write off $90,000 on their taxes. This is where a huge portion of the TechGYRLS program funding comes from.
One of the sheets in the folders were printed at AlphaGraphics, so I got to go on a bit of a walk to pick them up as well as drop off a few things along the way. I put together about 25 of these folders and then did some research on companies to send them to. The YW has a list of companies that they solicite every year, but this year we worked on a new list. There were about 105 companies that I went through and found contact information for. I was also responsible for determining the ask amount. I researched stock prices and the company size to determine the amount we should ask for on these "cold calls".
The next step was to create a mail merge of the solicitation letter with the information from the spreadsheet. I had never done a mail merge before, so this was a great skill to learn.
Fun Facts by Ellen:
This day was basically a repeat of last Wednesday. I worked some more to develop our social media and schedule posts for the upcoming week.
Day 14: Wednesday June 26th - 9am to 3:30pm
Below are some pictures from the EITC folders I put together for Laura and Ellen to send to local technology companies asking for a donation. The Educational Improvement Tax Credit allows companies to donate $100,000 to an approved non-profit program and write off $90,000 on their taxes. This is where a huge portion of the TechGYRLS program funding comes from.
One of the sheets in the folders were printed at AlphaGraphics, so I got to go on a bit of a walk to pick them up as well as drop off a few things along the way. I put together about 25 of these folders and then did some research on companies to send them to. The YW has a list of companies that they solicite every year, but this year we worked on a new list. There were about 105 companies that I went through and found contact information for. I was also responsible for determining the ask amount. I researched stock prices and the company size to determine the amount we should ask for on these "cold calls".
The next step was to create a mail merge of the solicitation letter with the information from the spreadsheet. I had never done a mail merge before, so this was a great skill to learn.
Fun Facts by Ellen:
- Always enter data into a spread sheet in the smallest and most consistent fields. This makes a mail merge much easier.
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