Founding a Charity

I'm in the middle of founding a local charity organization named the Panhandle Philanthropy Party. It's a pretty simple idea I have borrowed from a friend I met in India. We're working hard to get the organization going and right now I'm focused on getting new members to join and filing the official tax information to become a legitimate 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

The Panhandle Philanthropy Party is a charity focused organization creating exceptional and fun experiences, impacting lives, and enabling real life connections.

The PPP is a social group of like-minded people who live in the Florida Panhandle and meet every few weeks at different Pensacola bars, restaurants, clubs, and pubs.

We host casual events to raise funds for various social causes and participate in community charity events. Our goal is to have fun while giving a little back to those less fortunate than us.

You can check us out on Facebook.

Can't get away from Campus!

We'll I indicated earlier that I was taking some French language courses at the University of West Florida, but that's not all I am taking.

I am also enrolled in two graduate level communication courses and also a short course on starting and running a non-profit organization. All these classes are a lot of work, but I suppose education is the closest thing I have to a real hobby. I just kind of love it.

The communication courses are focused on combining communications, leadership, and healthcare organizations. It's good knowledge and the professor I currently have is very talented and likable. She is one of the premier academics in the area of healthcare communications. I hope she can help me get a job and help me with my internship at the Santa Rosa Medical Center.

It feels good to be on campus, but I am starting to recognize how old I am getting! Hearing some of the undergrads talk is like walking on glass! I asked a young lady if she had ever taken a French course and she said, "Yeah, in high school. So it was like a year ago." My ten year reunion is coming in about six months!

Entrepreneurial Endeavour

I've started working with a little IT start-up called Quality Technical Consulting. We're working on getting the business off the ground right now and I will be helping with sales and marketing efforts.

It's a small firm, but our technical staff is highly knowledgeable and very experienced. Our focus is on managing all aspects of IT for small to medium sized firms that lack the funds or the expertise to run their own network.

I'm learning daily about the technical side of the business and it feels good to work on starting a company from the ground up. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, but I feel like the local market is fairly under served in this area right now and we're gonna work hard to capture market share.

So if you need any kind of network security, design, management, or maintenance give us a call... and we're a lot cheaper than the competition.

www.QTCsupport.com

Internship

I will be starting an internship for the Santa Rosa Medical Center within the next few weeks. I'm excited about this opportunity and will be working in the Marketing Department for the hospital. It should be a great opportunity and I already met the supervisor, who was extremely pleasant, young, and enthusiastic.

I am hopeful that I can make an immediate difference at the hospital as I focused on hospitals as part of my MBA education. I've previously done several reports on hospitals and even some focused specifically on the corporate "chain" of hospitals that Santa Rosa is a part of. I am confident that I can help the department.

This internship will really help me as well. I will gain meaningful experience and work with a broad group of professionals within the hospital. Overall, I just need to gain more experience and learn about the day-to-day operations at a large hospital.

And of course I am still searching for some full time work! I've got my fingers crossed!

Learning French!

I'm gonna try to get the blog back up and running again.

So the first short and sweet post will be about French! I'm in a course right now at the University of West Florida and working on learning basic French. It is a lot of fun, but also a lot of work as the class is progressing very quickly. So far all I can say are little silly sentences, but you have to start somewhere.

I'm staying super busy these days, but I'll be back on here to update some of the other things going on in my life!

I hope everyone out there is doing well!