Mini-Internship Analysis
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
- Maimonides
“Educate through your compassion for others”- Jane Deer-Hileman
Organizational Analysis
1. What is Jewish Family Service?
2. My volunteer experience at the agency
3. Key issues at the organization
4. Self reflection
History of the Organization
• Esther Levy founded in 1892
• To meet the needs of new immigrants
• First to join United Way in1921.
Esther Levy, 1890sCourtesy UW Special Collections
JFS Strategic Plan
JFS thoroughly meets the needsJFS turns no one away
JFS continues to take a leadership role in collaborating with Jewish and non-Jewish
organizations
JFS collaborates with other Jewish organizations
JFS is for the entire communityJFS is only for “the needy”
JFS acts proactivelyJFS reacts quickly
JFS responds to needs throughout the cycle of life
JFS is here in an emergency
FUTURE ATTRIBUTESHISTORICAL PERCEPTIONS
What is Jewish Family Service?
JFS Mission:JFS Mission:
We deliver essential human services to alleviate suffering, We deliver essential human services to alleviate suffering, sustain healthy relationships and support people in times sustain healthy relationships and support people in times of need. of need.
http://www.jfsseattle.org/index.html
Organizational Analysis
1. What is Jewish Family Service?
2. My volunteer experience at the agency
3. Key issues at the organization
4. Self reflection
Role Immersion & Structure Role enactment
Fulfilled through attendance at staff meetings and the JFS Annual Meeting
Task orientation Widespread and discursive. Hard to
articulate my PE-Fit until I gained further entry through socialization.
Socialization into the org culture Becoming a member was a challenge for an
outsider like myself who knew little about Jewish culture and tradition.
Jane Deer-Hileman
Jane is passionately concerned about social justice issues going on in our world today.
Jane faces the organizational challenge of scheduling over 1000 volunteers during peak operations.
Her favorite milestone at JFS was organizing the home holiday gift basket campaign which sends over 100 gifts to local low income clients.
Volunteer Coordinator for Jewish Family Service
Volunteer & Consulting
• Strategic Bagging
• Helping diverse clients
• Local grocery deliveries
• Consulting web updates for volunteer opportunities
• Creating spreadsheets of local online orgs
• Researching Home Care Associate competitors
Worked in the office as admin/marketing intern
Focused on volunteer work in the food bank
Organizational Analysis
1. What is Jewish Family Service?
2. My volunteer experience at the agency
3. Key issues at the organization
4. Self reflection
Key Issues
Strengths– Already well organized bureaucratically and has a long list of
volunteers willing to provide community service hours.
– Not outwardly hierarchical. Ambiguous constraints; promotes creativity and room for growth amongst employees and fosters collaboration on projects.
WeaknessesJFS is like an old tortoise: It has a hard outer shell and is slow to move, respond, or adapt strategically to rapidly changing communication environments.
Potential family based impressions/constraints that impose burdens on role engagement.
Recommendations• Stronger crash course to socialize newcomers about
Jewish Culture
• New packets for incoming volunteers or interns that
specialize in the work tasks they will be involved in.
• People need a technology briefing—especially for
social media and blogging.
• Create a Home Care associates work group online.
• Loosen website restrictions on the server as a means
of synchronizing ideology and practice.
Organizational Analysis
1. What is Jewish Family Service?
2. My volunteer experience at the agency
3. Key issues at the organizaiton
4. Self reflection
Self ReflectionWhat did I learn? – I discovered that I enjoy consulting but prefer
having meetings more then frequently e-mailing• Research is not always about producing reports.• Volunteer hours—worth more than admin hours.• Myers-Briggs Test.
My experience at JFS was flexible but not quite the ideal PE-Fit. But as an intern Social Media briefing and marketing were my strongest points that matched my ENTP personality.
Questions & Comments?