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Teaming up With AmeriCorps

Published on June 12, 2011 By Gregg Potter

When one my closest friends graduated college, she knew one thing for fact; that she wanted to give back to the community through service.  Her choice of vehicle for this endeavor was the AmeriCorps. Friday we got the chance to team up with one of the AmeriCorps teams here in Tuscaloosa. Our assignment was to [...]

Cherrywood Worksite

Published on June 11, 2011 By Gregg Potter

Our first day on an actual clean up site was Cherrywood.  It is the most overwhelming thing to get to an area that has been completely demolished and asked to “clean it up”.  In almost 100 degree heat, in the sun, we raked, shoveled and wheel barreled our way through two house lots.  It is [...]

Dinner with Volunteers from The American Red Cross

Published on June 11, 2011 By Gregg Potter

This is Marlene.  She is one of the American Red Cross Volunteers that have been here for the majority of the time since the storms on April twenty seventh.  As we were cleaning up lots on Thursday, she was going around from worksite to worksite encouraging volunteers to take breaks and get water in them.   [...]

First Assignment

Published on June 9, 2011 By Gregg Potter

For our first day, we were sent to the Phifer warehouse where the Salvation Army had set up shop. All donations sent to Tuscaloosa from all over the country got sent here where then volunteers will unload, seperate, repack and the make accesable so people who need the goods are able to come in and pick up what they need.  [...]

Arriving Into Tuscaloosa

Published on June 8, 2011 By Gregg Potter

It has been a great first day of volunteering.  We were at the warehouse where the Salvation Army is taking in all of the donated goods from all over the country, sorting through them and then redistributing them. I even had the chance to drive the forklift.  I will have video up in the morning from [...]

First Look at Tuscaloosa

Published on June 7, 2011 By Gregg Potter

Before we even arrived to Tuscaloosa, we could see the damage from the what had happened during the storms in late April of this year.  We need to make sure that as a nation, far away from this, that we remember that it does not just go away.  We are responsible for each other. Share [...]

Finding a Volunteer Opportunity

Published on May 31, 2011 By Gregg Potter

As I have been getting everything ready for the big trip to Tuscaloosa, AL , I have gotten a couple “I wish I could volunteer for something like that” comments.  In addition to that, I have received a few emails asking how I am finding different volunteer opportunities as I travel.  I have been just [...]

We Have Hit Three Months

Published on May 22, 2011 By Gregg Potter

It wasn’t until I heard my friend tell me a story about her visit to China while she was in the graduate school on a cruise ship that I really began to digest what I have been doing for the last three months.  If you haven’t been following me and Project Kinect, here is a [...]

San Antonio Humane Society

Published on March 27, 2011 By Gregg Potter

When in San Antonio, I was staying with my friends Bri and Mark.  On one of the days, Bri and I took their two sons to the San Antonio Humane Society to check things out and do something with the boys. While we were there, I talked to the staff and played with a bunch [...]