October 4th

- Met with Kathy to go over today's donations
- Checked email
- Sent email to Max
- Created a "To-Do" list
- Wrote email to Indian partners asking for info on Deepika
- Wrote a BOA unfulfilled pledges letter
- Called a donor and thanked her for a huge gift
- Wrote email to Solomon asking for a picture of kids with thank you sign to send to donor who gave huge gift
- Lunch
- Got FIWL tour expenses from Kathy and had her forward info to todd
- Research on best time to send email (answer: 3-5 pm for our org)
- wrote email to BOA's asking for their help editing newsletter
- Revising newsletter stories
- Talked on the phone with donor of large gift
- Signed-up for a wordpress webinar for Friday
- Email correspondence with Chas. Set-up meeting for friday
- Email to Sam (indian BOD)
- Called donor and thanked her for support
- Called another donor and left message thanking them
- Going home to work on newsletter story (fewer distractions/change of scenery)

June 16th 2011

- Updated new subscriptions
- Talked with Kathy about conference call tonight
- Emailed updates to dufresne brothers and the lutheran church
- Worked with moellers to get a new map on our website
- prepared information for the board meeting tonight
- talked with todd about some stuff
- called people who signed-up to sponsor children on the FIWL tour and asked if they were still interested... one is

June 15th

It's been a few days since I posted here... It has been extremely busy

Recap of the past few days:
- Sent out a bulk email using mailchimp and have been recording responses
- Have been working on artwork with moeller's for facebook
- updated the homepage of the website
- updated the some of the "Our Ministries" pages
- Emailed lots and lots of people

Today
- Organized lots of new email subscriptions
- Helped Kathy set-up a presentation in her church
- Called Chas to try to fix our picture of India (left a message)
- Called a person I wanted to solicit for BOA but she was not interested...bummer
- Emailed like a crazy person
- posted a video on facebook which i think will get us some sponsors
- Called a person who just started sponsoring 4 kids and left a message thanking them
- Talked with Chas and Karen... now have to find more info for them online
- Called a lady about being linked to a specific child, her husband told me to call back tomorrow
- Called another lady who had been interested in sponsoring a child but she is unable at this time

June 9th 2011

- Sent an email to Luke trying to finalize meeting plans
- Talked with Kenyon about our Vanco pages. He wants me to design everything on Word... I know what the rest of my morning looks like
- Finished designing the draft and sent it to Kenyon
- Sent an email to another golfer who's email address we just got
- Lunch
- Been in touch with Kenyon
- Sent reply email to rex's response
- talked to todd on the phone
- started putting together BOA materials
- Talked with Kathy about sharing budget info...set-up a googledoc
- Called BOA and talked to his wife
- Sent another email to rex asking him if he will start reviewing my emails before I send them
- Talked to another BOA and she gave me a tip to contact Mission Network News
- Here's a post I'm going to put on facebook either tonight or tomorrow morning:

A quote from one of the boys in Rajahmundry, "I never used to study, because my parents took me to work. No time for studying. My mother is a tailor, and I have no father. We earned 40-50 rupees a day ($1)."

Read more about these boys and what their lives were like before going to Bethania Kids http://www.maxsindianexperiences.blogspot.com/

- Revised a letter to send out hopefully tomorrow

June 8th 2011

- Worked most of the morning on designing a new donate page
- Called Vanco and had them look at my design and try to replicate it, they will probably call back tomorrow
- Talked to Paul today and he and his brother are definitely going to become BOA's!
- Wrote a letter to a potential BOA who does not have email or phone number
- revised a letter to send to new SAC's
- Sent email to all those who participated in the golf tournament telling them about construction
- Met Bill today and talked with him for a while (I have a feeling he is going to be great to work with in the future)
- Nothing from Max... he's probably exhuasted
- Tomorrow I should update all of our information on what being an Advisory Board Member entails

June 7, 2011

- Checked email and got many SAC updates from Luke
- Revised the Raja community update letter and sent it back to Luke
- Revised the rest of the community update letters and sent them to Luke
- Updated the website: Added an events page and the Pencil and Coloring competition story
- Gar stopped by and I talked with him and set-up meeting for June 17th
- Called a couple BOA's and left messages
- Sent an email to SVBC (my old high school) giving them more info on Bethania
- called a Rajahmundry sponsor and am going to send link to video. She was a young girl living with her mom and dad so I did not solicit.
- sent email to Godfrey asking for info on getting a plaque made
- called a few potential BOA's and left messages
- 2 People are interested in becoming BOA's!!!!!!!!!!!!!! going to email them more information!

June 6th

- Wrote and responded to emails
- Got a new video from Max which I posted to facebook
- Wrote a letter to Sponsors of Rajahmundry boys asking for help with the building project
- New idea to be included with that letter: Plaque of donors to be hung on the wall. Have to talk to Godfrey about this.
- email problems... frustrating
- Emails to SAC's currently being sent. Going to take a little while for them to get out of my outbox.
- Sent excerpt from Max's blog to a Christian Magazine, hopefully they'll pick it up.
- Called one of the sponsors of a Raja boy to ask for more help for the building project. Got her email address and she said she couldn't help till july or september.
- Talked to another SAC about same thing and said she wasn't interested
- Left a message with another SAC
- Updated the Rajahmundry webpage to include video
- Updated a new tab on our facebook page to "get connected"
- Mailing out my VISA application