PAL’s Lorraine Woodruff-Long profiled in local paper
PAL was recently the focus of a nonprofit profile in the San Francisco Business Times. The question/answer interview with Executive Director Lorraine Woodruff-Long appeared in the April issue. Woodruff-Long gave a frank and lively overview of PAL’s challenges and successes. Among the highlights:
Smartest move: To strategically pick good partners, including the Junior Giants Foundation, the San Francisco Boys & Girls Club, and S.F. Recreation and Parks. There are so many excellent organizations serving youth and we want to work with them. We seek them out because we can provide a service to them and they can help us.
Missed opportunity: We’re turning away volunteers and interns that want to work for us because we simply don’t have space to put them.
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Professional insights: I am constantly impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit and talent of the nonprofit leaders that I know and work with who accomplish so much, often with so little.
Biggest pain: We can never move as fast as we would like to achieve our goals.
Greatest pleasure: Meeting amazing volunteers and individuals that give more than I could have ever imagined. I’m very inspired by these people.
Best recent moment: This year we have more kids playing soccer in our organization than ever before.
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Down time: I’m taking Spanish at City College. I’m also an avid modern quilter. My latest thing is painting pet portraits for family and friends. I also play the flute.Read the entire profile …
Missed opportunity: We’re turning away volunteers and interns that want to work for us because we simply don’t have space to put them.
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Professional insights: I am constantly impressed by the entrepreneurial spirit and talent of the nonprofit leaders that I know and work with who accomplish so much, often with so little.
Biggest pain: We can never move as fast as we would like to achieve our goals.
Greatest pleasure: Meeting amazing volunteers and individuals that give more than I could have ever imagined. I’m very inspired by these people.
Best recent moment: This year we have more kids playing soccer in our organization than ever before.
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Down time: I’m taking Spanish at City College. I’m also an avid modern quilter. My latest thing is painting pet portraits for family and friends. I also play the flute.Read the entire profile …
