Sunday, March 16, 2014

Thanks to Christina!!

When Christina applied to volunteer with the Foodbank, she really wanted a summer internship to gain experience in software development while sharing her skills and talents with an exciting technology company. She's majoring in Computer Science at UCSB and has a ton of computer/web programming skills.

At the time, we didn't have anything within her area of expertise that we needed help with. What we really needed was people to help plan and promote our upcoming fundraiser, Fork & Cork Classic. Even though this was not an ideal volunteer opportunity for Christina, she began attending our meetings and became super excited to help us.

After a few meetings with the committee, we decided that we needed a website for the event. Michael Kramer, owner of Ameravant, offered to build and maintain a website as an in-kind donation! I introduced him to Christina and now he has created an apprenticeship/mentorship opportunity to enable Christina to fulfill her internship objective!

Christina is now instrumental for the success of our Fork & Cork Classic Website. She is in charge of making all of the updates and adding logos and pictures for all of the sponsors and exhibitors who are participating in the event.

We love the work she is doing! We recently created another volunteer position for Christina to update the Foodbank Website too. We are excited to receive her advice and suggestions for the new website that is being built.

Thank you, Christina, for being flexible, patient, and loyal to us! I'm so happy that we were able to create the opportunity that you really wanted. We really appreciate all of your help!)

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