Many things happened. For one, we have our new development coordinator now and she's just awesome! I love her because she's so enthusiastic and we've been able to get many things done. For one, a new project on getting grants for one of our First Book National Book Bank distribution that invovles a Native American author. I actually got to read the whole book after I went on an errand to buy it from the corner Walden Books store and it was a pretty funny book. No wonder the author received many awards. It is a very good coming of age book to inspire American Indian teenagers. Thus, we've been working pretty hard looking at grants available and strategizing on ways to raise funds to make this distribution totally free for recipient groups, in other words, searching for money to cover the shipping costs. In addition I also looked into how to write grants and letters of inquiry and such and am actually learning a lot.
On other fronts, we heard back from some of our celebrities for the inquiries that we sent out for the WBGYH campaign and I just have to communicate in a clearer way of deadlines on when we need their info by. So altogether, this has been a good week.
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