As one would think, the last fifteen hours of my project would come quickly. However, these hours, while annoying, were able to produce $28,000 for the Amarillo Children’s home.
After the planning stage of the auction and making the tickets, my mentor instructed me to go to the PHS Senior Auction to observe their processes, in an effort to expedite the check-in and check-out process. In doing so, I found out that Mr. Kennedy was in charge of the automated inventory of items, a task which would greatly help the auction. A couple of weeks after the PHS auction, I tried to talk to Mr. Kennedy in his class but could not find him. After that I left him notes in his box in the office and emails on his school account, yet he never responded. As I didn’t have the time to invest in finding him I decided to create an inventory on my own.
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In order to create this inventory, each day I would go home and watch videos on youtube discussing the various functions of Excel and how to use them. After learning plenty about Excel, I created the inventory and while the automated functions of the program made it easy to create the basis of the inventory, notarizing the names and descriptions of over a hundred items took several hours. After completing the inventory the night before the auction, I went to my mentor in an effort to help with the live auction. With the live auction I put together centerpieces which would sit on the center of each bidder table which then could be bought and produce more money for the children’s home. After that, I began loading the four cars ,which were to be taken to the Twin Creeks home, with the materials for the auction: Silent and Live Auction items, wine for the donors, the centerpieces, the posters for sponsor and donor companies, and the printer and computer I needed to print out the Silent Auction
While sitting in my dorm room watching a DVD, I looked around and suddenly realized how lucky I was. I lived in a decent sized room with lighting and air conditioning that I could adjust to make myself comfortable. Then I thought how even more lucky I was to be able to go home too yet a nicer living facility at my own house that I have to share with nobody but my immediate family. It made me begin to wonder how many people there are that do not possess this luxury. That is when I thought of Habitat for Humanity. The only thing that I knew about it was that they built homes for underprivileged families with inadequate shelter. I wanted to see though exactly how this specific organization made a difference in peoples lives. Hopefully my research will enlighten my readers of the living situations of many families around the world, maybe even convincing some to volunteer themselves.
The Children’s Miracle Network is a non-profit organization that provides charitable funds to 170 children’s hospitals in the United States and Canada. Nearly 500 corporations participate in fundraisers and campaigns that provide hospitals with equipment, research, and care to children who suffer from injuries and illnesses. To date, Children’s Miracle Network has raised more than 4.7 billion dollars, and what’s unique about this organization is that every penny stays within the network (CMN, n.d.). Children’s Miracle Network has been extremely successful over the last thirty one years due to the relationships that they have built with corporations, the extreme media coverage that they obtain, and the lives and stories of those associated with CMN that have influenced communities to make a difference one dollar at a time.
The calculation of inventory expense on the operations statement and the posted balance on the statement of condition (balance sheet) may be approached in several different ways. List and discuss the various methods of inventory valuation that may be used. Indicate in your response why a certain method may be used in certain situations. What are predominant methods used in health care organizations (tax exempt or for profit)
One thing I did to assist them in tracking their inventory correctly was create an inventory
A whole month of being nice. From the start, I didn't think it was even humanly possible. Although I always try my hardest to be pleasant, I'm sarcastically witty by nature. This project, no matter how inspirational and uplifting it could be, would decidedly be no walk in the park. Nevertheless, I decided to persevere. Even if I ended up being a complete Transcendental failure, maybe I'd still learn something along the way.
A well-known program in New Orleans is The Covenant House. It is a well establish program that offer assistance to thousands of youth. Each day, scores of kids walk into Covenant Houses across the Americas for the first time. They get what they need immediately: a shower, a meal, clothes, a warm bed, and medical care if they require it – more than a third do. Then, Covenant House has expectations of the kids. Once they’re safe, clot...
I chose this project because of a young boy named Oliver, and his family. I have sponsored Oliver for almost three years now and have seen the benefits of an education, and a trade being taught to people in the Dominican Republic firsthand. Because my sponsorship and the works of the people serving people like Oliver, he can get an education, and his father can
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at the orphanage, I was able to help build a sidewalk and a garage for
The following day, the team and I quickly iced all the cupcakes and prepared our stall moments before lunch started. We were all very nervous; we thought no one was going to buy our baked goods! We were pleasantly surprised when we found out that our goodies sold out in less than 20 minutes! We were ecstatic. Amongst all our cheering and celebrating, we counted how much money we made and found what that we had made , and all that money was going to be donated to a cause that strives for
Soon the Father noticed I was looking at the vintage cameras, he walked over to me and asked if i wanted to see the stockroom. I agreed and was lead into the back of the building, where their was a table covered in stuff. About half of it was partially disassembled cameras, like someone had been using them for parts. The other half was in fair to pretty good shape. Their was your usual smattering of orphaned cameras whose film is no longer made and there is no easy way to convert them to take modern film. What was left I sorted through quickly, placing in a “want” and “dont want” pile. My plan was to ask what each item in my “want” pile cost and try to get a deal on two or three things for around 150 doll...
For the final project Kat, Victoria and I went to the local humane society and volunteered. The Humane Society of Catawba County is a place for animals who have been abandoned or mistreated by their owners to go. Anyone can go and adopt the animals and bring them home to a good loving family. The humane society is a big building with a lot of animals for everyone to adopt. With all these animals there has to be people who work/volunteer behind the scenes. The humane society is a non-profit organization who is always looking for people to come in, help and volunteer for them. This is where we came in play, we contacted the humane society hoping they could use some help taking care of the animals. We contacted Emily the volunteer coordinator
Perkins, Jessica. "An Underrated Road out of Poverty: Saving Money." Global Envision Latest Stories. N.p., 24 Apr. 2013. Web. 09 Apr. 2014.
It is undeniable that Inventory Management is an important key to success at Walmart. This paper will discuss the two main methods of Inventory Management used by Wal-Mart: Material Requirements Planning and Just-in Time. Next we write about the technical means of keeping track of inventories, like RFID tags. We conclude by discussing how Wal-Mart, one of the world’s largest retailers, manages its inventories. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Walmart needs to make sure that consumers are satisfied all the time, not only with the quality of service being provided to them, but with the quality of the product they are planning.