Exciting Times at NeighborLink
It’s exciting around NeighborLink Fort Wayne these days. There is so much positive energy surrounding our small organization. It feels good to have people rooting for us to do well as we try to make those in our community feel a little more love through tangible actions.
Here are a few things that are keeping me energized right now.
Volunteers have completed 232 projects to date in 2011! It still blows my mind that we can create a website, work with other great nonprofits to discover needs they cannot meet, and have people who want to help select projects all on their own. We’re over 25% ahead of the game this year over last. It’s definitely not about the numbers at NL, but I can’t wait to see where we’ll end up in 2011.
Volunteers can’t get enough. One of the unique things I get to watch is that the number of projects completed growth doesn’t primarily come from more and more new volunteers, it’s coming from existing volunteers doing more and more. It’s incredible to see a group of volunteers get captured by The Kingdom and change their lives to become more generous.
100 Cars for Good - This Saturday - I can’t thank the folks who helped create our video and those that are helping us spread the word enough. The support, prayers, well wishes, Tweets, Facebook Status’, and all around encouragement makes us feel great. We could really use to win this Toyota truck to continue increasing our capacity to do even more.
Our Professional Community Support - I feel really supported at an Executive Director of a nonprofit by my nonprofit peers and the forprofit professional network that I’ve developed over the past couple of years. Thank you for that. Keep that up, because I/we need that at NeighborLink. You’ve help us expand our reach and we need all the help we can get.
All in all, I’m grateful that NeighborLink exists in Fort Wayne and that the community of Fort Wayne is eager to make our community a better place in a lot of different ways. Relationships are the building blocks of a community and I’d say we have some great ones.
What’s encouraging you these days?
