Hypothesis: Project Under "Floating" Game

Some of you know that I will be travelling to New Orleans, LA this coming January for a week-long conference with my Administrative Director to see our 10-month program development project come to reality. For those of who invest so much of their time in program development, you can’t wait to see the fruit of your labor, with hopes that the actual implementation goes well and smooth–that’s what all “project leaders” hope for!

Being the Program Director of this 10 long months of staff and volunteer coordination, I (or “we”, my boss included) am expected to be there and see how everything comes together. I had been working with volunteers from all over the country to put this program together. Volunteers may sound very little to some–but actually these “volunteers” are prestigiously well known in their field. Highest caliber of experts, if you will.

For example, my boss and I have been working with the Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver along with the Deputy Dean of Research at the Social Service Administration of The University of Chicago. These individuals both serve on the Board of Directors for a non-profit social work and research organization. They collectively volunteer their time, efforts, and expertise in putting this program together and we (next year it’ll be “I”) are there to put into action. That is why we are very eager to see our hardwork come into reality and hopefully everything goes well.

With what is going on down in LA, that puts us sitting on the edge crossing our fingers hoping that hurricane season this year won’t be as bad as when hurricane Katrina hit downtown New Orleans back in 2005. In fact, one of my colleague’s client had to cancel their conference during that time because of the devastation caused by the hurricane. Had there been a massive destruction caused by hurricane Gustav at the hotel where the conference was going to be, our client would have had to stamp the project “CANCELED”.

We pray for those who lives where the major destructive events are happening that they stay safe as possible and get to higher grounds before it’s too late. I have a couple of friends who lives down there and I hope they are doing OK.

After this New Orleans project, the next venue is San Francisco, CA (yet again! woot! woot!). Quite frankly I can’t wait–I really can’t. But, before that one though, we’ll have one local meeting which is going to be in Washington, DC (I’m really excited….NOT!) in May 2009. Then January 2010 is San Francisco, then May 2010 is Denver, CO. (Yea!!!).

Anyway, I said all that to say this “Please don’t float our project away into the sea!”…