Monday, March 28, 2011
Beginning of the project
Today I met with my boss and a couple of people who work with the Dundee Hills Wine Association, which has between 40-50 members. The meeting today was about making me the liaison between Lunabean media, the marketing firm they've hired, and all of the wineries that are members. Lunabean is going to be in charge of the marketing for the DHWA for the next 6 months, and my job will be to collect photos and information from the wineries for Lunabean to use in social marketing to get the wineries more customers. This week, I will start by visiting some of the wineries to see what their tasting rooms are like, meet the employees, and get a feel for what I'll be doing for the rest of the school year. We are meeting again on Friday, and this is when I'll meet the employees of Lunabean and learn about what they expect or want me to do for them. I'll also help them market the Passport Tour on April 16th, which will be my project for this internship!
The NICE
Hey Everyone!
I am interning with a group called the NICE, which is full of nice people who do nice things... and the pun continues and never gets old :)
The NICE is short for the Northwest Institute for Community Enrichment. It is a young organization that is a hub of a national organization called Grand Aspirations. The NICE is just getting started as a nonprofit, and has been around for about three years. We do two things - community organizing and sustainability consulting, which are both continually growing and adapting depending on the year and who is involved. The community engagement part of the NICE was what it was founded as, and the consulting is just getting developed as a way to fund the other half. Basically, this is what happens, on an annual basis.
Every fall Nathan, the founder of the NICE, recruits people from the pool of youth climate activists he knows and has access to from the Northwest. People who are interested and agree get a small sum of money to gather a team and start a neighborhood enrichment program in a specific neighborhood in their city. This entails picking a neighborhood, talking to people within that neighborhood, and creating partnerships with local organizations and businesses. The team sets up a listening project in the neighborhood they choose. This includes going door-to-door within that neighborhood and asking people about their experience living in the neighborhood - what they like, what they don't like, what they want to change, and what barriers to making that change are. The conversation emphasizes environmentally sustainable change, but can also include topics such as neighborhood safety and schools as well. The team then asks the residents if they are interested in participating in a neighborhood enrichment program, and if they agree then they are invited to a neighborhood meeting. At the meeting, they meet their neighbors and share ideas of how to improve their neighborhood. The NICE teams role from here on out is mostly as facilitators. They help residents facilitate meetings, they share resources, and they are there to answer questions and to help out, but it is mostly the residents creating teams within their neighborhoods to put some of their dreams of improving their neighborhood into a reality. The program then becomes a self-sustaining program and the NICE team moves on to another neighborhood, while still offering support to the other one.
The second part of the NICE is just getting started, and that is the consulting part, and it is where I do most of my work. The consulting branch is meant to be how the NICE makes most of its money. Basically the purpose it to offer consulting to local organizations and businesses who are trying to improve the sustainability of their group, as well as to offer trainings on team development, leadership, campaign planning, and lots of other subjects geared towards leadership and environmental education. We are starting to develop curriculum, as well as to organize our first conference. Instead of us going to different groups and schools, this conference will offer an opportunity for interested people to come to us for one day of multiple different trainings. We hope to put on a conference about four times a year. We also work with groups to design specific trainings for their group.
My role in the NICE right now is kind of all over the place. I am currently on the team who is planning the first conference, as well as working with the individual neighborhood enrichment teams in various cities. I am also working with Nathan to develop a tool for the enrichment programs, called a challenge-in-a-box, which provides community members with everything they need to start their own team, if they get super excited about what is happening and want to get further involved. The challenge-in-a-box will allow them an opportunity to have everything that we have developed to launch a team, recruit people and create partnerships with organizations, and basically set up their own program in their neighborhood. This is really exciting because it will allow us to be able to assist a lot more people with programs because everything will already be there and ready to use.
I am really excited about this internship and the opportunity it gives me to work with the NICE, I have been involved for about a year now, but doing this internship allows me more time to work with them, which is awesome! I'm excited to see where this goes this Spring, and especially excited to see what happens with the first NICE conference we are planning!
Thanks for reading!
~Sarah
I am interning with a group called the NICE, which is full of nice people who do nice things... and the pun continues and never gets old :)
The NICE is short for the Northwest Institute for Community Enrichment. It is a young organization that is a hub of a national organization called Grand Aspirations. The NICE is just getting started as a nonprofit, and has been around for about three years. We do two things - community organizing and sustainability consulting, which are both continually growing and adapting depending on the year and who is involved. The community engagement part of the NICE was what it was founded as, and the consulting is just getting developed as a way to fund the other half. Basically, this is what happens, on an annual basis.
Every fall Nathan, the founder of the NICE, recruits people from the pool of youth climate activists he knows and has access to from the Northwest. People who are interested and agree get a small sum of money to gather a team and start a neighborhood enrichment program in a specific neighborhood in their city. This entails picking a neighborhood, talking to people within that neighborhood, and creating partnerships with local organizations and businesses. The team sets up a listening project in the neighborhood they choose. This includes going door-to-door within that neighborhood and asking people about their experience living in the neighborhood - what they like, what they don't like, what they want to change, and what barriers to making that change are. The conversation emphasizes environmentally sustainable change, but can also include topics such as neighborhood safety and schools as well. The team then asks the residents if they are interested in participating in a neighborhood enrichment program, and if they agree then they are invited to a neighborhood meeting. At the meeting, they meet their neighbors and share ideas of how to improve their neighborhood. The NICE teams role from here on out is mostly as facilitators. They help residents facilitate meetings, they share resources, and they are there to answer questions and to help out, but it is mostly the residents creating teams within their neighborhoods to put some of their dreams of improving their neighborhood into a reality. The program then becomes a self-sustaining program and the NICE team moves on to another neighborhood, while still offering support to the other one.
The second part of the NICE is just getting started, and that is the consulting part, and it is where I do most of my work. The consulting branch is meant to be how the NICE makes most of its money. Basically the purpose it to offer consulting to local organizations and businesses who are trying to improve the sustainability of their group, as well as to offer trainings on team development, leadership, campaign planning, and lots of other subjects geared towards leadership and environmental education. We are starting to develop curriculum, as well as to organize our first conference. Instead of us going to different groups and schools, this conference will offer an opportunity for interested people to come to us for one day of multiple different trainings. We hope to put on a conference about four times a year. We also work with groups to design specific trainings for their group.
My role in the NICE right now is kind of all over the place. I am currently on the team who is planning the first conference, as well as working with the individual neighborhood enrichment teams in various cities. I am also working with Nathan to develop a tool for the enrichment programs, called a challenge-in-a-box, which provides community members with everything they need to start their own team, if they get super excited about what is happening and want to get further involved. The challenge-in-a-box will allow them an opportunity to have everything that we have developed to launch a team, recruit people and create partnerships with organizations, and basically set up their own program in their neighborhood. This is really exciting because it will allow us to be able to assist a lot more people with programs because everything will already be there and ready to use.
I am really excited about this internship and the opportunity it gives me to work with the NICE, I have been involved for about a year now, but doing this internship allows me more time to work with them, which is awesome! I'm excited to see where this goes this Spring, and especially excited to see what happens with the first NICE conference we are planning!
Thanks for reading!
~Sarah
Things Get Complicated
Hi All, I'm back from my spring break and ready to get back to work on my quest to document the history of the Eyrie winery building. I emailed the Yamhill County Assessor's office last weeks asking for information about the construction and history of the building. I received a startling email informing me that the building was constructed in the 1950s. This CANNOT be right. So I decided to drop by the assessor's office this morning to investigate. My first discovery was that the address used by the winery is in fact somewhat inaccurate. I Googled 935 NE 10th Ave. and found that that physical address did not correspond with the actual location of the building. Instead, the winery sits at what I believed was 935 E 10th Ave. However, the woman at the assessor's office said even that address was inaccurate according to their records. Good grief! Thankfully, I was able to locate the building on a map in their office and for 25 cents I received all the information they could give me about that property...which was not much. Now, I must proceed to the the Yamhill County Clerk's office to look up a corresponding file which I hope will give me the info I am looking for (most importantly the date of construction and the history of ownership.) We shall see. In the mean time I have started on the Historical Resource Record and am beginning to compile a request to have the building included on McMinnville's list of important places. I'll keep you all up to date on my progress! And if any of you know how to gather information of on buildings, particularly what I could find in public records, I'd love your help!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Back to work I shall go!
By Katie Paysinger
***
Coming off of Spring Break and could it be that I am looking forward to going back to work!? Yes, I think it is.
Last week - well, the week before break - Krista was out of town and I had the offices to myself. It was nerve-wracking to be responsible for so much! Luckily, I had some idea of what I was doing and Krista was only a text message away.
I worked on getting more of the YCAP Capital Campaign April newsletter squared away, as well as other projects for YCAP. It felt good to know how to respond to the dozens of E-mails that came my way.
This week the newsletter will go to press (fingers crossed!). I will update you more after I get back and see all the changes that have happened in my absence, and I have no doubt there were tons! That is just the life of marketing.
I am about to crack open the book I'm supposed to read as part of the Kemper Internship, Now, Discover Yours Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. Should be interesting.
Until next time-
K
***
Coming off of Spring Break and could it be that I am looking forward to going back to work!? Yes, I think it is.
Last week - well, the week before break - Krista was out of town and I had the offices to myself. It was nerve-wracking to be responsible for so much! Luckily, I had some idea of what I was doing and Krista was only a text message away.
I worked on getting more of the YCAP Capital Campaign April newsletter squared away, as well as other projects for YCAP. It felt good to know how to respond to the dozens of E-mails that came my way.
This week the newsletter will go to press (fingers crossed!). I will update you more after I get back and see all the changes that have happened in my absence, and I have no doubt there were tons! That is just the life of marketing.
I am about to crack open the book I'm supposed to read as part of the Kemper Internship, Now, Discover Yours Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. Should be interesting.
Until next time-
K
Sound tracks, storyboards and cameras... oh my!
March 27th, 2011
Spring break seemed to pass with the blink of an eye, which means our documentary deadline is creeping closer and closer! Fortunately, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Huntsberger on the Thursday afternoon before break to look over some of the video that had been sent up from Jay Selman. Jay has some experience shooting similar documentaries. After reviewing several of his pieces, we discussed Jay's shooting techniques and style of editing. I'm not quite sure how we can use him in the project, but that can be discussed as the summer approaches.
Dr. H and I also mulled over the issue of licensing music to be used for the documentary's soundtrack. There is only $500.00 in the budget to license music, which is nowhere near enough. So instead, Dr. H and I are considering the idea of recording the soundtrack ourselves since we are both musicians. Using our own equipment and the recording studio in the campus radio station, we would put together a simple, light soundtrack to lay down behind the film. I thought it was crazy enough to be putting together this documentary in the first place, and now I'll potentially be contributing to the soundtrack?! Awesome!
Its time that we begin to put a storyboard together for the project. A storyboard is a series of frames that illustrates the general outline of the film. It gives us an opportunity to begin piecing together the puzzle.
Dr. H and I are meeting next week to start the storyboard.
Cheers,
-Nic
Spring break seemed to pass with the blink of an eye, which means our documentary deadline is creeping closer and closer! Fortunately, I had a chance to sit down with Dr. Huntsberger on the Thursday afternoon before break to look over some of the video that had been sent up from Jay Selman. Jay has some experience shooting similar documentaries. After reviewing several of his pieces, we discussed Jay's shooting techniques and style of editing. I'm not quite sure how we can use him in the project, but that can be discussed as the summer approaches.
Dr. H and I also mulled over the issue of licensing music to be used for the documentary's soundtrack. There is only $500.00 in the budget to license music, which is nowhere near enough. So instead, Dr. H and I are considering the idea of recording the soundtrack ourselves since we are both musicians. Using our own equipment and the recording studio in the campus radio station, we would put together a simple, light soundtrack to lay down behind the film. I thought it was crazy enough to be putting together this documentary in the first place, and now I'll potentially be contributing to the soundtrack?! Awesome!
Its time that we begin to put a storyboard together for the project. A storyboard is a series of frames that illustrates the general outline of the film. It gives us an opportunity to begin piecing together the puzzle.
Dr. H and I are meeting next week to start the storyboard.
Cheers,
-Nic
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
March 15-the sorting continues
Hello All,
Well I am still sorting and sorting and sorting and sorting and sorting, and OH did I mention sorting? so there are a lot of files to go through right now and I am very much looking forward to the exhibit process. I already have an idea and I hope that it works out. I am really looking forward to sorting through more of the pictures. As of late I have mostly come across administrative files which are not what we are looking for, but I am glad they are out of the way.
In addition to all this we recently had a meeting with almost all the people involved on the project, like Nick and Dr. Huntsberger, who will be in charge of the video this summer. I am so glad not to be on the technical aspect of THAT again and once again I apologize to those who know what they are doing and had to watch those.
I also finished and took my strength finder test. I don't think that I really learned anything "new" about myself, but it did help me narrow down certain traits, which is of course the purpose of the test. So as a result I am working on applying these strengths to making different aspects of my academic and interning life more efficient for me and those around me.
I hope you all have a very good week and will see you all after the break!
IPNC Documentary
Hey all! My name is Nic Miles. I am a sophomore at Linfield College and I am studying mass communication. I was fortunate enough to recently receive a Kemper internship for my work with Dr. Michael Huntsberger in the mass communication department.
We will be spending the next five months working on a collaborative research project, creating a full-length documentary on the history of the annual International Pinot Noir Celebration. The 25-year-old celebration has been held at Linfield every summer.
Last Friday, March 11th, I met with Dr. Huntsberger, Dr. Peterson, Whitney Gauger from the IPNC office in McMinnville, and Barrett Dahl. We discussed a basic layout for the documentary, as well as a general time line.
The meeting got me fired up about what is to come. This documentary project will give a chance to develop my technical skills in the most professional setting I have encountered.
This Thursday I am meeting with Dr. Huntsberger to begin looking through the digital materials that were gathered last summer for the project. Hopefully there will be some footage or interviews that we can use in the documentary!
We will be spending the next five months working on a collaborative research project, creating a full-length documentary on the history of the annual International Pinot Noir Celebration. The 25-year-old celebration has been held at Linfield every summer.
Last Friday, March 11th, I met with Dr. Huntsberger, Dr. Peterson, Whitney Gauger from the IPNC office in McMinnville, and Barrett Dahl. We discussed a basic layout for the documentary, as well as a general time line.
The meeting got me fired up about what is to come. This documentary project will give a chance to develop my technical skills in the most professional setting I have encountered.
This Thursday I am meeting with Dr. Huntsberger to begin looking through the digital materials that were gathered last summer for the project. Hopefully there will be some footage or interviews that we can use in the documentary!
Monday, March 14, 2011
Week Before Break
So SIP! Food & Wine Classic went well at Evergreen this weekend, it wasn't as busy as I thought it would be, but it was a fun experience and thankfully well controlled so we didn't have to deal with any people who had consumed too much. I even ran into a few people I know so that was fun.
I networked with other vendors, like the part owner of Zenas Winery out of Carlton; events like Sip are great for meeting other people in the industry who can provide part time jobs and valuable insight to help me get ahead in my early career hunting.
On Thursday, I plan on accompanying my boss to an industry tasting at White Rose, a vineyard very close to Vista Hills. They're releasing a new wine, and we get the privilege to taste it before it is released to the public.
Starting in April, I'll be working more weekends in the Tasting Room, which is a fun way to get to know customers, especially club members who stop by frequently to chat and taste our newest wines.
I networked with other vendors, like the part owner of Zenas Winery out of Carlton; events like Sip are great for meeting other people in the industry who can provide part time jobs and valuable insight to help me get ahead in my early career hunting.
On Thursday, I plan on accompanying my boss to an industry tasting at White Rose, a vineyard very close to Vista Hills. They're releasing a new wine, and we get the privilege to taste it before it is released to the public.
Starting in April, I'll be working more weekends in the Tasting Room, which is a fun way to get to know customers, especially club members who stop by frequently to chat and taste our newest wines.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Carrots, Karats, and Carets: A Day At Sotto Communications/Pantry Marketing + Design
By Katie Paysinger
***
I am interning in the town brothel.
OK- not really.
I am spending this semester interning at Sotto Communication/Pantry Marketing + Design. The office I work in was formally the town brothel. Honest- ask the Historical Society.
My name is Katie Paysinger and I am senior Mass Communication major, Political Science minor at Linfield College. I am originally from Yamhill County and I am so excited to be able to be a part of the Kemper Internship program focusing my internship on nonprofit clients in the area.
Sotto Communications/Pantry Marketing + Design is a strategic marketing agency. Project development, planning, and management, plus design for publications and branding are all aspects of the daily life inside the office at Ford and 3rd in downtown McMinnville (Yes, right next to Ribslayer. The walk into work is torture…). Krista McCallum is the owner of Sotto/Pantry.
Here are five goals I set for myself before my internship started at the beginning of the semester:
-To develop a sense of what it is like to operate a business
-Have in-depth knowledge of website management for multiple clients
-Develop a network of business contacts through my interactions with Sotto and Pantry
-Have a set of materials/projects that I have heavy influence in to show as a product of my work
-Understand time management in terms of personal responsibilities at work and managing my school life
My work is focusing on nonprofit clients. At the moment, Yamhill Community Action Partnership has completely dominated my time and I love it. The main goal of my first couple weeks at Sotto has been to get YCAP’s new and improved website up and ready. Constant communication via E-mail and in person with YCAP personnel is crucial. Krista had been working on it for quite a while and I came in at the tail end to help finish it off. It was just launched last week. Please check it out at www.YamhillCAP.org.
In addition to the YCAP website, I have been handling the project management for YCAP’s Capital Campaign April newsletter. It is my first large solo project (granted- Krista is always right across the table to answer my constant questions) and the goal is to get it mailed by the end of the month. I will keep you updated.
Also, as a fundraiser for the Capital Campaign, community leader Ellie Gunn began a fundraiser called “Let’s Make it a Banner Year for YCAP!” Yes, Krista and I came up with the name (all part of the complete project development services offered!). Ellie is tracing hands of YCAP supporters for donations and embroidering them into personalized banners. Creating pdf flyers, text for the YCAP website, press releases to the local newspapers, and constant Facebook updates (I am an Admin for the YCAP Facebook page), are all part of the job to promote this fundraiser. See the Facebook page for updates on how you, too, can be involved in this project.
I realize this has been quite a novel, but there was just so much to say! I will leave with one tidbit of exciting conversation Krista and I had the other day. I am calling this part ‘Conversations on the Island’ because the workspace Krista and I use is a repurposed restaurant kitchen island. We are all about repurposing. If you take something that already stands and reshape it to make it even better, you’ve done well. This is a theme in all Sotto/Pantry does and it will a theme in my blog!
Conversations on the Island
(working on preparing a job ticket to send to Ashley, the designer, so she can create the newsletter for the Capital Campaign out of the content I have been preparing)
Katie- How do you spell the word for those things on the keyboard –making scissor fingers trying to make the shape for the <> symbols – They are called ‘carets’, right?
Krista- Uh…
Katie- I’ll look it up. There is the eating carrot…
Krista- The stone karat…
Katie- Ah! C-A-R-E-T. The keyboard caret. Thank you, Google.
Just a day in the life of the brothel.
Katie
p.s. You can check out Sotto and Pantry on their respective Facbeook pages, as well.
Sotto- Click Here
Pantry- Click Here
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Vista Hills Vineyard Internship
Hi, my name is Karly Osten and I am a Senior obtaining a marketing degree. I've had my internship at Vista Hills since September, and I absolutely love it! I got to test the grapes to check for ripeness, help with the insanely busy harvest season, and frequently work in the tasting room serving customers.
This weekend, I'll be working at SIP, which is taking place at Evergreen Aviation Museum. There will be several food, craft, and wine vendors, and I will help my boss with wine tastings and sales of our wine. I'm looking forward to this experience, and expect to learn a lot from being around all of the other wine vendors as well.
I would love to stay in the wine business and have a career in the industry, and I plan on continuing to work at Vista Hills part time this summer after I graduate. It's a truly fascinating industry, especially here in the Willamette Valley. There are so many vineyards here, and more keep popping up. I also love to network with the customers; it's greatly helped me get contacts and informational interviews!
This weekend, I'll be working at SIP, which is taking place at Evergreen Aviation Museum. There will be several food, craft, and wine vendors, and I will help my boss with wine tastings and sales of our wine. I'm looking forward to this experience, and expect to learn a lot from being around all of the other wine vendors as well.
I would love to stay in the wine business and have a career in the industry, and I plan on continuing to work at Vista Hills part time this summer after I graduate. It's a truly fascinating industry, especially here in the Willamette Valley. There are so many vineyards here, and more keep popping up. I also love to network with the customers; it's greatly helped me get contacts and informational interviews!
Monday, March 7, 2011
The Details of Dulce's Internship
Hello All!
My name is Dulce Kersting and I am a senior history major at Linfield. I am one of the lucky students who has been given the opportunity to gain first hand experience through an internship this spring. My Kemper-supported internship is with The Eyrie Vineyards, the original vineyard and winery in the north Willamette Valley. I met the owner and winemaker at Eyrie last summer while working for the Linfield Center for the Northwest and with the help of the center's director, Jeff, I was able to secure this internship. Networking is a beautiful thing!
So this spring I am working with Jason (Eyrie's owner) to begin the process of getting the winery facilities listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Additionally, I hope to produce a concise history of the property for Jason to keep on file, and maybe also a small display of old photos and a timeline which could go up in the tasting room. I'm really looking forward to putting my historical investigatory skills to the test this spring! My career goals lie in the field of public history and I believe this will be a fantastic way to gain some experience with the challenges of practicing history outside of the halls of academia.
My name is Dulce Kersting and I am a senior history major at Linfield. I am one of the lucky students who has been given the opportunity to gain first hand experience through an internship this spring. My Kemper-supported internship is with The Eyrie Vineyards, the original vineyard and winery in the north Willamette Valley. I met the owner and winemaker at Eyrie last summer while working for the Linfield Center for the Northwest and with the help of the center's director, Jeff, I was able to secure this internship. Networking is a beautiful thing!
So this spring I am working with Jason (Eyrie's owner) to begin the process of getting the winery facilities listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Additionally, I hope to produce a concise history of the property for Jason to keep on file, and maybe also a small display of old photos and a timeline which could go up in the tasting room. I'm really looking forward to putting my historical investigatory skills to the test this spring! My career goals lie in the field of public history and I believe this will be a fantastic way to gain some experience with the challenges of practicing history outside of the halls of academia.
IPNC update: starting pictures
So my name is Barrett and I am a senior anthropology major. This semester I am working with the IPNC, international pinot noir celebration that is held at Linfield every summer. Currently I am assisting in the summer exhibition of th 25 year history. Part of my position OS collecting, scanning and applying photographs, documents, quotes and other related items to a summer exhibit. In addition to this I will be at some of the video taped interviews and hopefully helping in the interview process.
Currently I am sifting through photos in the IPNC office. I've got a long way to go and well I guess I had better get stared.
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