Monday, May 6, 2013

As I had mentioned we had been doing this MainStreet Philanthropy class taught by Ryan Ponsford on how to be a philanthropist and how donating to charity works.  Our team, like many teams, ran into some problems especially on how the work was going to be distributed.  We had to sit down and talk about this since it got to the point of procrastination and lack of finished work,  we decided to divide the project into thirds and there was progress began to be made.
In our group tensions rose since no one really knew their task due to a lack of communication, but this really taught me that when working in a team we really need to act like it and talk to one another instead of everyone trying to do their own thing and then later having work that is poor quality.   I also learned that we all need to respect each other in order to have that better communication especially because we were not only doing all this for a grade but to find the right organization that changes people's lives for the better, and really keeping that in mind really allowed to settle differences and work together.
I feel bad though that next week when we deliver the checks to the team's charity our team won't be delivering ours since the Autism Speaks' closest office is in Los Angeles but I know that when our does get there our donation will make the difference in some lives and that makes me feel really good about what we've been doing and it makes me realize that all this was worth it, I also am very grateful that I got a chance to do something like this.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Just a little something I found that really made me think.  I feel if more people were like this there would be less judgement and hate.