National Organizing Week 2007
Today marks the end of the 6th annual National Organizing Week, and the 4th time I have been involved. This year, Professional Organizers in Canada (POC) partnered with Habitat for Humanity to provide free-of-charge organizing services to their ReStores at locations across Canada.
I had the pleasure of working at the Hamilton location with Ella May Russell of Time & Spaces and several Habitat for Humanity volunteers. Now that most of my work is virtual, it was great to have a chance to get out and work with someone else for a few hours. I was only able to participate for the morning, but my place was taken over in the afternoon by Elaine Jermy of Organized Evolution. Elaine and I have worked together on previous NOWeek events. Other POC members volunteered their time at various locations across the country.
It’s amazing to see how much work can be accomplished when we work together! This is how the plumbing section looked before we started:
This is how it looked only three hours later:
Special thanks to Wendy Hollick, Chair of the Halton-Peel Chapter, for all her time and effort coordinating this event in our area, where 15 volunteers donated 90 hours of their time.
That looks great Janet - glad to hear NOWeek was a success! I’m always amazed at how a quick-fix can make such an improvement.
Cheers,
Alex
Comment by Alex Fayle — May 8, 2007 @ 1:06 am
Great stuff! Make sure these photos get to the POC national site!
J
Comment by Jacki Hollywood Brown — May 8, 2007 @ 8:28 pm