Fellow Blog Post – Week 8

July 30, 2024

This week is the last week of summer programming at Bridgeway. I helped take pictures of the students painting rocks that they can give to their friends, staff, and families. We also had another visit from a therapy dog, which I helped to take photos of too. This week was officially the last week of the Summer Program, and I will really miss helping Rachel carry it out. I will miss working closely with her in general. I was able to see how much she cares about the students and I felt like I learned how to better interact and engage with the students through her.

Here are some photos that I took during this week’s summer programming!

We also planned for the upcoming 20th anniversary. To celebrate 20 years of the organization, the team wanted to undergo a social media campaign through a series of short videos, highlighting different moments and people that are representative of Bridgeway’s goals and values. The campaign would start next month in August 2024 and end in December 2025. I had the idea that these videos should have voiceovers from our CEOs to make them feel more personable to viewers. I felt that voiceovers from the CEOs themselves would add a human element to the videos. We continued to build on the idea and decided that we could do voiceovers from the different subjects of the videos so that viewers could hear from the people of the stories themselves.

However, Janelle said that she wants us to think of a commonality in each video that ties them together. One thing that really stood out to me is when our Communications and Events Assistant, Alyssa, said that the videos should serve the purpose of showing the growth of Bridgeway and how this growth would not be possible without the support from grants and donors. I feel like this helps me understand the goal of the videos, and I’ll be keeping this in mind as we keep thinking of an effective way to tie the videos together.

I was also able to attend the Kiwanis Charity Regatta boat racing event. It’s an event where the nonprofits participating can table and race each other to win more money for their organization. It was lighthearted, and I felt that it was a good way to end the week.