® doi 10.1287/inte.1040.0097 © 2004 INFORMS Improving Volunteer Scheduling for the Edmonton Folk Festival Faculty of Education‚ University of Alberta‚ Edmonton‚ Alberta‚ Canada T6G 2G5‚ lynn.gordon@ualberta.ca School of Business‚ University of Alberta‚ Edmonton‚ Alberta‚ Canada T6G 2R6‚ erhan.erkut@ualberta.ca Lynn Gordon Erhan Erkut The annual Edmonton Folk Music Festival is run almost entirely by its 1‚800 volunteers. While people are usually enticed into volunteering for the folk
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A volunteering experience that really impacted my life was when I volunteered at the downtown station on Thanksgiving to serve food for the needy ones. Being able to help those around me had opened my eyes to the world. I am no longer self-centered about my life but rather focus on my fellow mankind and God’s will. This valuable experience has set a pattern in my life to keep on helping others and serve my community. I feel that I had become a better person by volunteering‚ and that only through
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SWOT Analysis of site The analysis of Happy life volunteer station used in this report is through a SWOT analysis tool. A SWOT analysis is the identification of strengths and weaknesses within an organization and opportunities and threats that can affect the organization from the outside (Valenit‚ 2001). It offers an analysis that narrows down the chances of misleading results and considers internal and external factors that could affect the organizations ability to achieve its objectives. Hence
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WEVA stands for Walcott Emergency Volunteers Association. Walcott has had a team of volunteers monitoring the sea since 1976 after the sea breached the defences and flooded properties on the sea front including the post office. They were known as Walcott Flood Wardens. Some of them were fishermen so were very familiar with how the weather conditions could cause major problems with the sea. Two of them are still flood wardens today. In 1997‚ the parish council decided that the flood wardens should
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I find my practicum experience to be a real assert to the agency I am with currently‚ because I can assist others with the knowledge acquired.1 It is also great in providing hands-on learning‚ which is in stride with the real world.1 This experience is affording me the opportunity to deal with actual issues confronting a population and increasing my commitment to working in the public health environment. I do feel that the practicum experience has enhanced my technical skills in the field so far
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The Memorable Experience Everyone has memorable moments in their lives‚ which always stay in their mind and play an important role in life. I also have some memories from my early life‚ which includes volunteering with a NGO called Konpal Child Abuse Prevention Society‚ an organization that deals working against all form of child abuse. While volunteering‚ I participated in activities such as visiting rural areas‚ attending medical camps‚ and did a walk against child abuse and neglect on “Universal
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Outline and evaluate theories and or studies on the effects of early experience on adult relationships (8+16 marks) The quality and type of relationships differ between individuals:some are happy with long term-relationships‚ others prefer more temporary‚ less passionate relationships. Some individuals seem ’lucky in love’‚ while others seem to struggle to maintain a long term stable relationship. Bowlby (1951) believed that the type of quality of relationship that individuals have with their
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Team and Small Group Experience Recalling my early days of being athletically gifted‚ I was a member of my high school basketball team. The team consisted of ten members. To acknowledge taking part in a group‚ I will have to recall working in the Army as Flight Operations Specialist. The intent of this essay‚ I will examine the relationship of communication among the members as taking part in a group or team‚ and to analyze the collaboration factors of how information is processed between each
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Phillip Burgess Tiffany Mcafee 4-24-11 English 105 The Human Experience "The Human Experience" is a spellbinding‚ real and fascinating movie. This movie is one of the best documentary films of the 21st century. It totally touches on every feeling that a human can possibly feel. From the saddest to the happiness of total euphoria. This movie is a spiritual and uplifting masterpiece seen through many different eyes. It’s explained and expressed by all walks of life everyone from
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assisted with EMS calls and was able to observe physician discussions regarding best medical action for particular patients‚ possible outcomes‚ and ways to combat larger problems of poverty and non-compliance. I was invited by Dr. Merlin to have a volunteer role in the URINATE Trial (designed to identify the proper antibiotics for bacterial infections most common to Newark‚ NJ) and was responsible for reviewing patient charts and obtaining patient consent. What was most striking about Dr. Merlin is
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