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BookEnds is up to its elbows in two things that I love – kids and books! There are so many fun things our Directors of Programs get to do: engage in warm interactions with excited recipient students, discuss the most recent reading strategies with educators, jump up and down with donor students at a pep rally for a bookdrive, find treasured childhood books in a giant stack of collected kid’s books, etc. etc.
But, I’m not out in the field doing the “fun stuff”. I’m the Associate Director of BookEnds, and I spend much of my time sitting at my desk managing, organizing, facilitating, strategizing, consolidating, structuring, coordinating, arranging, controlling, enabling, smoothing, helping, expediting, maneuvering, forming, planning and directing the various puzzle pieces that must work together perfectly for this (or any) nonprofit to function effectively.
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And here’s another secret – all that stuff I do when I sit at my desk? I think that’s fun too!
Gayle Baigelman
Associate Director
BookEnds