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Grace McDonald

Week 9 (7/5/2021 – 7/11/2021)

Monday (7/5/2021):

0 hours completed today.

Tuesday (7/6/2021): 9:00 – 2:00 pm; 3:00 – 6:00 pm; 8 hours

This morning, I reviewed my emails, excel, and other forms of communication since we

had a holiday break. I have been in contact with Brandon Wilde frequently. Instead of

communicating with the Community of Life Services Director of Brandon Wilde, I received an

email from the Wellness Director. She informed me of the great benefit her community would

receive with our virtual webinars. For that reason, I gave her links to upcoming webinars along

with past webinars her community may have missed. She also asked if there would be a

possibility for someone from the Arthritis Foundation to be a guest speaker for the community.

Since I am not located in this area right now, I will not be able to travel to this location. I relayed

this information to my internship supervisor and forwarded our communication too. She

informed me that she would try to find a well-informed volunteer, doctor, or arthritis warrior in

the area that may serve in this way. I was excited to see continued contact and benefits from

communication with this particular retirement community. I have learned to casually

communicate with communities I have already received responses from. Rather than overloading

them with the many resources we provide, I have seen benefits of selecting one program or event

that may serve the particular setting best. Throughout the day, I made progress on our

INSIGHTS recruitment excel sheet and managed contacts.

Wednesday (7/7/2021): 9:00 – 12:00 pm; 1:00 – 7:00 pm; 9 hours

Instead of working on my excel sheet with current and new contacts today by sending

emails and making phone calls about new events, I continued making contact with past donors
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the Crystal Ball fundraiser in October. As I continued to email individuals and businesses, I plan

to follow-up with them by a phone call next week informing them of the letter sent to their

address along with the email I previously sent. I want to confirm I have made contact with these

organizations. I also noticed that I was assigned to One-on-One Physical Therapy which is a

facility I know we have made contact to promote our INSIGHTS assessments but did not receive

a response. Since they are on the past donor list, they have donated to previous auctions. For that

reason, I compared contact information and realized we may be able to use these contacts to give

them more information about the Arthritis Foundation to their facilities. This may be helpful to

increase the completion of these assessments.

Thursday (7/8/2021): 9:00 – 5:00 pm; 8 hours

Today, I dedicated time to our excel sheet focused on our INSIGHT assessments before

we had our weekly meeting from 10:30 – 12:00 pm. We spoke about our continued progress, and

we were updated on our INSIGHTS and were sent the INSIGHTS report for the past two weeks.

I have learned in the last 7 days, we have had 10 people register and 20 assessments completed.

In last 14 days, we have had 25 people register and 40 assessments completed. This is

encouraging and great improvement to when we first began contacting facilities of the

INSIGHTS assessments. Once we are able to reach a larger organization, I am confident the

assessments will increase greatly but this has been difficult to do. Within larger businesses and

organization, it has been challenging to obtain correct or effective ways to communicate to the

right person. Although this is the case, I have learned that it is important to continue to reach out

to these organizations with new individuals because someone may be find value in the Arthritis

Foundation. Once our information reaches this person, there may be a lot of opportunities to

promote our resources and assessments.

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Friday (7/9/2021): 10:00 – 2:00 pm; 3:00 – 7:00 pm; 8 hours

Today, I switched between both excel sheets to make contacts and maintain them. In

addition to this, I was able to add more to my monthly calendars. I have finished my other works

in Canva, but I have been adding to the monthly calendar as I have received information from

my internship supervisor. In our meeting yesterday, she informed me that she would try to

distribute this information more often so I can contribute as much as possible to the monthly

calendar before I finish my internship. Once the national office sends her this information, she is

able to forward the information to me. A lot of the information she sent me included upcoming

webinars which I plan on forwarding to Brandon Wilde when the events get closer since their

faculty believes the webinars will be most helpful to their retirement community.

Saturday (7/10/2021): 9:00 – 2:00 pm; 5 hours

Today, I used most of my time to organize both of my excel sheets along with emails. I

have found it challenging to manage my work since the excel sheets and emails are growing.

There have many times that I have accidentally overlooked an email or skipped over an

organization on an excel sheet. Eventually, I realize and make contact quickly. Since this has

been challenging for myself, I made a folder to move emails pertaining to the Arthritis

Foundation as I receive them. I am confident this will allow me to look over these emails quicker

and more effectively.

Sunday (7/11/2021):

0 hours completed today.

Weekly Hours: 38

Total Hours to Date: 353.5

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