Hello, my name is Sherell Fuller, and as the new Program Assistant with The Women’s Foundation, I’d like to personally welcome you to learn more about us. It’s been a few weeks since I joined the team, but it seems like I’ve been a regular for months.
Time for my first blog.
While networking with one of our Grantee Partners at my first big Stepping Stones meeting, she said to me “This foundation is really something, to see a group of women come together like this is great,” and I thought to myself, “It really is, and it’s time for me to start talking about the dedication behind the scenes that gets meetings like this started."
Working at The Women’s Foundation reminds me of those Outward Bound missions set up for groups to work on challenging physical and mental activities in order to strengthen awareness and team cohesiveness, only without all the grueling physical work. We don’t climb cliffs or swim dozens of feet to work on our mission (lucky for me), but the work we do requires teamwork, a level of trust, dedication, and initiative.
Before joining, the Program Officers told me that working here is like building a plane. I’ve found that to be true. Each person contributes their piece of the puzzle, and it’s an ever-changing, continual collaboration that needs all the right parts put together to keep the fuel burning. When I need assistance with setting up a meeting, or a project, there’s always someone willing to give me a hand. (Thank goodness!)
This teamwork builds bonds among the employees, which is good because in order to care about strengthening Washington area women and girls, the workers who execute the mission have to have a strong sense of camaraderie.
After all, it takes a powerful wave of people to create and maintain a powerful wave of philanthropy. As the author of The Curious Feminist, Cynthia Enloe, proposes, be curious! Get to know The Women’s Foundation more. Find out how you can be an agent of change.
Before I go on and on, which I can, I’d like to invite you to get to know me more. Feel free to email me with your questions at sfuller@wawf.org.
