Tuesday was the launch of SF Connect, a volunteer program in the city that focuses on helping the homeless, improving city environment, delivering technology to low-income families, and mentoring youth. If you’re interested in helping, visit the site and see how easy it is to give a day to SF. Hands On Bay Area is playing an integral role in the roll-out and management of this program!

To that end, I’ll be busy. Next week I will help out at Homeless Connect, and later in the month I’ll work at Green Connect and Youth Connect (those will be weekend projects). In addition, there are several Hands at Work projects requiring help; these are service days we coordinate for major corporations. Somewhere in there I need to carry out my regular tasks, and we need to hire new Americorps members to begin work September 5th. We have seven positions. If you are interested in learning more, contact me and I can get you job descriptions. We’ll be advertising next week with goal of starting phone interviews mid-month.

Oh! Our friends who are relocating are on their way. One of them will fly out here Sunday to stay with us several days. She starts an academic program on Monday (yes, she’s brave to do all this), and until her husband, car, and household gets packed and shipped, she’ll be our guest. In all likelihood we’ll not see much of each other. Husband has a conference to attend all next week and will be in SF until late evening each night. She has night class. I’ll have a few evenings of work (the whole month will be thus for me).

Tomorrow afternoon my fellow Americorps and I will take off work early to enjoy lunch and celebrate the fact that we’ve completed 1000 hours of service. In less than three months I’ll be finished! Bonbons here I come!

I do feel I’m running on fumes lately. Never a dull moment, though.