Submitted by Janne Hutchins.
LASA has been providing housing along with complementary services to help homeless families stay housed for thirty years. We also provide prevention services and we think we do a pretty good job.
What’s more we have attracted terrific volunteers and in fact have won awards for our volunteers. Last year we won an award for Innovation in our housing programs. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that we don’t have anyone on staff who has the inclination or time to improve our web page and we haven’t found a volunteer interested in doing it. So now we are reaching out to our community. If you are a computer geek ( you don’t have to be a geek) with a little extra time each month and would like to help a local non profit we would love to have you help us put our best foot forward.
This could be a good high school or college project and help you build your resume, in return we promise we will do our best to be easy to work with.
Please call Jan at 253 581-8689.
Joseph Boyle says
Janne,
You may not remember me, but I knew you as a hard working LASA servant to the public back in the previous century. Thanks for your 30 years of other-directed service to help those in need in our community.
While I would love to volunteer to help you with your website, I grew up when there were no computers and 5 cent phone booths everywhere. The 5 cent phone booths are extinct and I am getting close to becoming extinct myself. What that means is if I worked with your website, it would become worse, not better.
I do have a piece of unsolicited advice for you. Having, myself, tried to recruit a cartoonist using the power of The Suburban Times, I recommend that in addition to your wonderful TST opportunity advertisement, you launch a 1 on 1 campaign of contacting schools and colleges in our area to see if they would be willing to nominate a candidate for your computer task.
Hey, this is some unusual unsolicited advice. Why do I say that? Becaue in giving you unsolicited advice, I think am going to take my own unsolicited advice. My previous similar effort to advertise for a cartoonist, not a webmaster, ended with no candidates. So I think I will take my own advice and contact some of the schools in our area to see if staff will nominate a student for my cartoonist position.
Thanks fo boomerrang advice, Janne.
Joseph Boyle
P.S. The only thing bad abut this boomerang advice is I sometimes find it diffiuclt to accept unsolicited advice.