Hep from the Legal Community

This Monday, a vast majority of my time (five hours) was spent inputting the contact information for members of the legal community (lawyers) into the Habitat for Humanity database. There was a somewhat weird moment when I entered the contact for information for one my friend's father; it was an eerie sort of, "Hey, I know him!" moment. Apart from that, the day went by normally and was just another day of data entry in the office.

The next day, the contact information was put to good use. A member of the Habitat for Humanity office named Christine Bucknell wanted to send letters to all of the lawyers in the database asking them for money. The letter they sent was asking for $1000, which seemed like a lot to me (my friend's dad wasn't going to give that much). However, the donation envelope that was to be sent with the letters allowed any amount to be donated, so it seemed like $1000 was more of the ideal than the expected amount.

My job was basically to put the donation envelopes in the letters which I would then put in envelopes. I would then put a mailing address label on the envelope that corresponded to the address written on the letter. I put stamps on some of the envelopes, but this project required more stamps than the entire office had, so Christine said she would buy more stamps later and put them on the envelopes herself. This job actually ended up taking all day, so I didn't do anything else on Tuesday.