VIP Impact: Steven's Hope for Children

This story comes from VIP Amber Lara, serving with our partner Steven's Hope for Children

We at Steven’s Hope have had the great pleasure of recruiting a number of long-term volunteers in the fields of marketing, accounting, and event planning. We have recently been in the process of reorganizing the organization to spread responsibility, and in that effort we have been developing teams to handle many of the non-profit’s day-to-day operations. These operation teams, which consist primarily of diligent volunteers who dedicate two or three hours per week to the organization, work to cover such areas as event development and planning, finances, marketing, operations of our Children’s Boutique, and fundraising.

Since these volunteers have begun taking on many of the day-to-day tasks at Steven’s Hope, the non-profit’s co-founders have been able to focus their efforts into facilitating many of the organization’s long-term programs and goals. This allows us to focus on problem areas such as fundraising, which in this difficult economic time is essential to the survival of the non-profit.

In addition to the day-to-day day team building, we also held a highly successful event on Sept. 10^th, 2011. Steven’s Hope’s annual One Tough Run is a moderately difficult 5k run which benefits our non-profit directly, helping us to continue our programs designed to assist the families of seriously ill or injured children. This year, the event brought together 109 volunteers for the day, many of whom arrived enthusiastically at 5:00 AM on that Saturday morning. Many of the volunteers thanked me for the opportunity to give back to those families and asked me to please let them know of any other ways that they could help. 

One Tough Run - a Steven's Hope event that brought out 109 volunteers!