Director of Outreach and Development, Non-Profit

>> My name is Katelyn Rush. I am the director of Outreach and Development for Starlight Children's Foundation, Mid-Atlantic. Starlight Children's Foundation is a global nonprofit, based in Los Angeles. I work for the Mid Atlantic chapter so we serve Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. And we work to ensure that kids feel welcome and at home when there in the hospital. Anything from providing what we call fun centers, which are video games that they can play at their bedside, to special visits and parties just to make the hospital not so scary and overwhelming. My title, the Director of Outreach and Development, outreach and development are just kind of two fancy ways of saying communications and public relations and public outreach like that. And then also fundraising and really building our brand and bringing the money so we can serve more kids. So, my days really vary a lot and I don't think any two days are exactly the same. It can you know when I typically come in in the morning I'll start off just doing a quick monitoring of the internet that I have set up, basically Google alerts or Twitter and Facebook. Just looking at any stories that are out there either specifically about Starlight or that would be relevant to the people we serve or our donors or volunteers. So that kind of I start off, I usually start off my day with focusing on our social media side and our online presences and then really the days can vary between, meetings, we have our big gala coming up in November, our huge fund raiser every year. So once a week, sometimes more we'll have big long meeting for that to get that planning and rolling. It can just be doing phone calls, making emails, doing research on potential foundations that, you know, we'll get funding from. And it's yeah that's one of the really fun things, is the variance in it.