Today was the first official day of of my SCORE assignment. For my project, I am working at a non-profit organization in Gloucester called seARTS (Society for the Advancement of the Arts), which helps to support local artists and promote cultural activities across Cape Anne. My own connection to seARTS is through my dad, who was a member of this organization and, a while ago, became president of seARTS. I have previously been to seARTS events, but the main focus of my project is obtaining a greater understanding of how a non-profit organization runs and functions.
Since it was the first day on the job, I spent some considerable time organizing a project that I will be working on for the rest of the week. My work place for the time being is pretty convenient; around 500 yards away from the school at my dad's house. From there I have been working at abstracting the data on filled out seARTS surveys that were collected from participants in seARTS-sponsored events. The work is very time-consuming: the survey that I spent today doing was 53 pages long. At the longest, completing a whole page took about a minute long. This was the only survey that I completed today, but it was mostly because of the other preoccupation's that I had with school and other aspects of the assignment.
Beside the surveys, I also planned ahead for the rest of April. One my aims for this project is to involved in seARTS events. Later this month, I learned from my dad, there is going to be conference among nonprofit organizations, a meeting which seARTS will be a part of. A contribution I can make to this could be through my data collection. Another detail to this assignment will be learning how to operate an Excel software program, which has a spreadsheet application. Using a spreadsheet, I can organize the extracted date more clearly than writing it down and also make pattern arranges to it that can categorize every part of the survey.
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