Professional Development Event Recap
What a great turnout! We had such a great time learning about how we can leverage our strengths and personality traits in the workplace, especially when it comes to working on teams. We'd like to offer a big thank you to Holly Kasperbauer from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M for coming to speak with us. Thanks also to the Austin Young Chamber of Commerce for helping us organize and promote the event, United Way of Austin for hosting us, and Schlotzsky's for providing us with lunch. Most of all, thank you to everyone who attended. We hope you learned a lot and enjoyed the workshop as much as we did! 
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 Austin AmeriCorps Alums hosted a workshop all about Grant-Writing and Fundraising! On November 9th from 6:30-8:30pm at the Mueller HEB Community Room, Corinna Archer and Kristina Thompson hosted a Professional Development Event. The focus focused on grant-writing, but also discussed generally development, a little bit marketing 101 and nonprofit storytelling. The session also included  an activity related to messaging/developing a "need statement" that hits on grant-writing and some general marketing/storytelling skills.

Our speed networking event was a great success. We learned a lot about each other and I was so happy to see some new faces, both current members and alumni, at the event. Keep an eye out for more professional development events and don't forget our monthly happy hour social! 

Check out the photos from the event below!