January 17, 2008 - 8:40am — TJ at the MET
Tuesday Jan 15th, 2008
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Ohhh logstics
So, Youth Venture got me all excited last week and said that they would be able to send me down another VISTA to help me out. Right now I’m located in two schools, Peace St. (where I am 95% of my time) and East Bay (which is about a 40 min drive). I was really hoping that I would be able to train and send a VISTA down there within the next few weeks to keep the teams going, but right now it doesn’t look like it’s going to be a possibility (this also opens the door to all the logistical issues we’re going to have with bringing in new VISTA members for this partnership this fall). So now I’m faced with the dilemma of how to support and encourage my teams down there without subtracting my time from Peace St. The only way I can think of, without getting another VISTA, is by spending one day a week down there, which really seems the most feasible. In retrospect I’m regretting launching simultaneously in East Bay. It’s just far enough way to make logistics a huge pain and the biggest detriment. I’m wishing we started somewhere closer like Sheppard or public first. Or at least waited until we got the website up and running.
I have a meeting with Charlie next Wednesday and I’m hoping that we’ll be able to sort something out. I just feel bad because the other day I mentioned to him that I was planning on giving him someone full time and now I can’t go through with it. It’s a bit of a let down.
Also; Tonight is the second YV panel. It’s for Ross and Maridee’s school store. The planning and the budget seems alright, but I just up it’s up to the standards that everyone seems to be expecting from these teams. I really want them to be up and running and one of my official teams, but I also want to ensure that they’re thinking big and on a large scale.
I’m starting to feel the pressure of the year almost over. I still need to get ten teams up and running by June. Right now it’s the middle of January and I still don’t have any. I’m really hoping that I can step this up and get them running. I’m just nervous that the end of the year will come and I won’t have that much to show for it, it’s just complicated because all this little stuff keeps getting in the way. I really feel like I need at least one other person helping me out with this, I think that would’ve helped a lot. It’s all still doable though, we’re on our way
-TJ