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?