It is hard to believe that we are already at the end of week three of our internship! We have been so busy this week that the time has just flown by. On Thursday we had a speaking engagement for the Minority Business Council here in Greenville. We were asked to present on Democracy NC’s [...]
Week three has started off very eventful. Monday we spent researching social service organizations in the Eastern North Carolina area that we could possibly contact and partner with in the future. We learned the importance of keeping meticulous notes on everyone that we contact. Monday afternoon we got a chance to make our first presentation [...]
This week has been full of traveling but what a great experience it was. We began our journey in Elizabeth City on Tuesday. We started by passing out “Respect our Vote” flyers at community shelters and food banks in the area since HB 351 would affect low income, low wealth, and displaced residents in large [...]
Monday was not the typical boring first day of the work week that everyone expects. Around lunch time we received a phone call that Governor Beverly Perdue would be in Greenville meeting with a small number of members from the Eastern North Carolina Civic Group. This was an opportunity that we could not give up. [...]
This week one of our main goals was to get on the local radio station WOOW am 1340. Broadcasting starts at 8 am and we of course had to be there early. Initially we were supposed to go on the air on Thursday but, like we were warned of, we ran into some pot holes. [...]
Our few days as Democracy NC interns have definitely been active, to say the least. Neither of us expected to be so busy within the first few days of the internship, but there has barely been a free moment since we walked into the office on Tuesday. Of course the first few moments involved logistics, [...]
After a very nice long weekend it’s back to work here in G-vegas. This week we are focusing getting the word out about the coalition meeting in Washington on the 16th. We are hoping for a great turnout. We are also working to increase the youth GOTV pledges. The summer is flying past and I [...]
After a much deserved vacation, Joyce and I regrouped to brainstorm over ways to engage the community in our last couple of weeks. We struck gold last week with our Pitt County Coalition meeting where Dr.Powers ( the best Sociology professor) was able to link us with the Interfaith Alliance director to get more faith centers involved [...]
We’re famous! Actually, not really, we were just featured in the Sunday edition of the Washington Daily News. We shared our input of the organization and why we are so active in politics. After our interview the reporter showed us around the newspaper, which is ancient. He showed us where the original papers were printed [...]
This week in the wonderful world of organizing we attended Lobby Day in Raleigh at the General Assembly. It was a day of good experiences and disappointments. The morning started off bright and super early. I met the Washington group in the parking lot of Wal-mart at 6:30 am and we headed to Greenville to [...]