Emily Wills
Right here is the newest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator sequence. This sequence allows you to describe your workday in your personal phrases.
Emily’s Bio:
Emily is the Fund Improvement Coordinator for Wisconsin Youth Firm, a nonprofit that works to interact kids in alternatives to be their finest selves and assist them thrive past the college day.
Emily is a Chicago native, born and raised, however now lives in Madison, Wisconsin along with her husband, canine, and two cats. She acquired her BA in Theater with a focus in Theater for Younger Audiences from Northwestern College.
Earlier than shifting to Madison, Emily was the Affiliate Improvement Director for Mudlark Theater had been she additionally wrote, directed, and taught for after college and summer time camp packages.
In her spare time, Emily like to bake, make, and create. She has by no means met a craft undertaking she didn’t like and loves taking part in board and function-taking part in video games with household and mates.
She is working at house and that is her typical day:
Earlier than 8:00 am: The times begins at 6am. After my alarm goes off, it’s a mad sprint of feeding our two cats, again up stairs to prepare for the day, then taking the canine out for her morning stroll.
Then it’s espresso or tea and half an hour to sit down and browse for enjoyable (if I don’t find time for it it simply gained’t occur.) I’m at the moment re-studying “Sabriel” by Garth Nix.
I often have oatmeal or some toast with fruit after which make my technique to my workspace with a cup of scorching espresso to begin work at 8!
8:00 am to 10:00 am: I take the morning to test emails, collect my ideas, and put devoted time into neighborhood outreach and donor prospect analysis. To assist me maintain monitor of my time I like setting timers on my telephone.
To get higher at interacting and utilizing totally different social media (particularly LinkedIn) I’ve taken to placing on a timer for 15-20 minutes and attempting to put up a significant touch upon as many posts as I can. My rule is that I solely work together if I’m genuinely drawn to the content material.
10:00 am to 12:00 pm: I’m very reliant on my pocket book and rainbow of colourful pens. If I don’t write one thing down I can typically lose monitor of it or neglect about it simply. For some issues, like month-to-month studies or comply with-up with donors I like so as to add a reminder into my calendar. I was all about the bodily paper calendar as effectively, however have since switched to all digital calendaring. Personally I exploit Google, however all of my work occasions and duties are by means of Microsoft, so I typically wind up inviting myself to any necessary occasions that happen exterior of my regular work hours.
12:00pm – 2:00 pm: Monday-Thursday are the days that I typically have conferences in the afternoons. I attempt to reserve Fridays and never schedule something in order that I can actually dedicate some psychological area to getting stable work performed.
I additionally discover it exhausting to be artistic when I’ve a million conferences with little 15-20 minute gaps in-between. I want that psychological area to let my thoughts wander to consider all the prospects and artistic options to a given downside.
2:00pm – 4:00 pm: I’ll generally take a 20 minute energy nap at 3pm. If I can’t match in a nap, then espresso is a should.
I like spending the final 30 minutes of the day to kind of overview what occurred and jot down any necessary motion steps for the subsequent day, or ship off a few emails I’ll must comply with up on.
After 4:00 pm: I attempt to finish my work day round 4/4:30, however often it ends at 4:45 when the alarm to feed the cats goes off (that is a necessity as a result of in any other case the hours between 2pm-5pm could be an utter anarchy of caterwauling.)
After work ends, I take the canine out for a stroll. I often attempt to get in some kind of a artistic outlet at the finish of the day – drawing, studying, taking part in music, and so forth.
Thanks for sharing your day, Emily!
Need to be featured in this sequence? Inform us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications professional by filling out the kind under.
Can’t see the kind? Do this.
